Building Communities

One byte at a time

Problem 1: Find out the nth Fibonacci number

def get_fibonacci(size):
    numbers = [1,1]
    while size > len(numbers):
        next_fibonacci = numbers[-1]+numbers[-2]
        numbers.append(next_fibonacci)

    return numbers

Solution: 

Rule: F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2) | F(0) = F(1) = 1

Problem 2: Output a digit corresponding to an image of handwritten digit

Solution:                            ಠ_ಠ

.. so many rules to figure out

Only Pattern Recognition can help now.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer

• Tweeted something ? 
• Watched the news ?
• Sent an email ?
• Watching stuff online ..
• Traffic Data
• Mobile voice/sms data
• Attending this talk ?

Data Sources

Volume is the least important aspect of big data,

veracity (quality) is the most important.

DATA SCIENTIST: THE SEXIEST JOB OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Source: https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century

+ Communication

You may go days without getting a valuable valid hypothesis.

Huge gap b.w. academia and industry

PyData culture

Conferences in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, DC, ...

NumFOCUS

950+ members, 6 meetups already done

To-Do

• Understand the nature of your region

• Get some people out to help you

• Learn how to design an event/workshop

• Finding sponsors or partners

• Define some success matrix

Future