Lightning Talks
summary
A set of five-minute demos shows concrete results: a Twitterbot that generates city accolades using NLTK and WordNet and runs on Heroku with a scheduler; a Raspberry Pi button that plays Santana and tweets; hacked Amazon Dash buttons feeding a MongoDB (mLab) backend and Flask web app to track dog potty breaks; a tiny “it’s working” Anakin video that confirms fixes; Jupyter extensions (Docker images, dashboard, kernel gateway, content search, notebook-as-module, nbviewer slides); and conda‑forge reporting 1,159 packages.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Building dumb things matters
- 4:39Twitterbot for city accolades
- 10:10Santana jukebox with Raspberry Pi
- 15:09Pup potty tracker with Amazon Dash
- 20:34Debugging with Star Wars video
- 25:59Python in antibody purification
- 33:52Jupyter notebook extensions
- 40:17Behind PyData Carolinas
- 44:16Closing remarks








