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Today's talks

Edmonton's Open Data Platform

by David Rauch

City of Edmonton Projects Using Python: Route Optimization and Natural Language Processing

by Usman

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Python Events

Releases

Resources

• Quart, a Flask API replacement using asyncio
• pyannotate PEP 484
• python-flamegraph: Statistical profiler which outputs a format suitable for FlameGraph

• Write Mobile apps using python using either:

  • Kivy - https://kivy.org

  • BeeWare - https://pybee.org/project/using

Articles

• Regular Expressions for Data Scientists

• Talk Python To Me – Episode #139 Paths into a data science career

• Use Rust to improve Python performance from Red Hat

• Going beyond the idiomatic Python

• Django Logging The Right Way

• Citusdata - Scaling out your Django Multi-tenant App

• Image Hashing using OpenCV and Python

• Dask + Numba for Efficient In-Memory Model Scoring

• JupyterCon Videos

• Getting started with Python for R developers

Next meetup

Jan 8th

The Edmonton Python User Group

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Data Science Resources

Career Books

Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline

The Data Science Handbook: Advice and Insights from 25 Amazing Data Scientists
 

• NumPy
• Pandas
• SciPy
• Matplotlib

Essential Python Libraries

• TensorFlow
• Theano
• Plotly
• Scrapy

MOOCs

• Data Science Specialization (10 course)
  John Hopkins University (Coursera)
• Applied Data Science with Python Specialization (5 course)​
  University of Michigan (Coursera)
• Machine Learning​
  Stanford University, Andrew Ng (Coursera)
• Data Science Math Skills
  Duke University (Cousera)
• Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow (top 50) (Kadenze)

Repos

• Data Science iPython notebooks
  Data science Python notebooks: Deep learning (TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe, Keras), scikit-learn, Kaggle, big data (Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS), matplotlib, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Python essentials, AWS, and various command lines.
• Data science blogs
  A curated list of data science blogs
• Awesome data science
  An awesome Data Science repository to learn and apply for real world problems.
• Awesome public datasets​
  A topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains

Miscellaneous

• Data Science Masters
  open-source curriculum for learning Data Science
• Datatau
  Like Hacker news but for Data science
• Data Science Toolbox
  Virtual environment based on Ubuntu either local with Vagrant or AWS
• Dataquest
  Like Codeacademy but with a focus on data science

Meetups

• Data Science Meetup                                
  Every 1st Wednesday of the month
   
• Lunchalytics
  next one on Wednesday 13th
   
• BetaCity (Pub Night)
  next one December 27th