Keynote: The Python Butterfly Effect
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A keynote shows how small choices in code and community produce large social effects, demonstrating a Jupyter Notebook simulation of chaos and interest diffusion and using Python tools (pandas, NumPy) to scrape and analyze police data that powered a Chicago Justice Project exposé and litigation. It also reviews Python Software Foundation funding growth (grants +22.6%) and its global reach (support in 51 countries), and mentions GitHub Learning Lab as a concrete resource.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Speaker background
- 7:16Butterfly effect explained
- 10:49Human systems movement
- 13:59Family history identity
- 17:53Mexican-American border history
- 21:06Chicago Latin origins
- 23:39South Side Chicago changes
- 26:50Activism to Python
- 30:23Open source social justice
- 35:23Python global impact
- 40:26Python community growth
- 41:29PyCon Africa diaspora
- 43:12Ethics responsibility tech
- 44:58Q&A
