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PyOhio 2014

date:2014-07-26..2014-07-27
location:Columbus, United States
series:PyOhio · 11 editions
tags:[python]
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Getting Python All Up in Your Mobile with KivyBen Rousch43m
Kivy is a Python GUI framework that runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Android (2.3+), and iOS and compiles to a native C Python interpreter; a minimal Kivy APK is…
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Introduction to PandasJason Myers44m
Pandas provides Series and DataFrame primitives for labeled arrays, fast tabular joins and merges, and built‑in handling of missing values; the demo loads CSVs…
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Python for the Class of 2023Amy Flatt51m
Teacher describes converting community invites into classroom programs using Raspberry Pi, running a Young Coders conference that reaches students (50% on…
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So you think you can PDB?Clayton Parker40m
Practical walkthrough of using PDB: how to drop into a running program with import pdb; pdb.set_trace(), or start a script under the debugger with python -m…
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A Python Script to Replace a DOS Batch File AdventureCraig Lang40m
Converts a brittle MS‑DOS batch that uninstalls, runs wget, and calls setup.exe into a Python tool that measures elapsed install/download time with datetime…
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Watch your Python script with straceBrandon Rhodes52m
Shows how to use strace/truss to observe actual system calls made by Python and why that matters: /bin/true makes a few dozen calls, an empty Python -c script…
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Introduction to CeleryCaleb Smith49m
Covers hands‑on Celery setup: a real app uses a task to generate thumbnails and another to build PDFs, tasks queued via a broker and executed by workers…
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Pushy Postgres and PythonDaniel Rocco44m
Shows how Postgres’ built‑in LISTEN/NOTIFY plus triggers sends payloads (≤8,000 bytes) into worker processes, with Python using psycopg2 AUTOCOMMIT and…
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The Clean Architecture in PythonBrandon Rhodes50m
Argues that applying Clean Architecture to Python means keeping IO at the top level and rescuing business logic into a pure functional core so functions take…
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Painting on a Distributed Canvas: An Advanced Guide to Celery WorkflowsDavid Gouldin43m
Celery canvas is dissected into concrete primitives: serializable signatures form the unit, with chains (series), groups (parallel with GroupResult), and…
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Machine learning the hard way -- a story about poniesNathan Taggart48m
Buys $800 of DRF race data, builds an ugly parser, mungees into numpy arrays, and uses scikit-learn with grid search plus a custom betting scorer. Discovers…
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Configman - the grand unified theorem of configurationK Lars Lohn41m
Configman provides a single API that overlays any key/value mapping sources (defaults, files, env, CLI) and supports dynamic class/module loading so…
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Recognizing Speech in PythonAnoop Hallur29m
A complete Python recognizer extracts 13 MFCC coefficients every 10 ms into NumPy arrays, trains on tiny datasets (15/20 cat or dog clips, 50 digit samples)…
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Software Radio with CTypesThomas Winningham42m
Cheap $20 RTL‑SDR USB stick becomes a general-purpose receiver tuned ~24 MHz–1.2 GHz with ~1–2.5 MHz visible bandwidth. A ctypes-wrapped version of rtl_fm is…
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Making and taking phone calls with octothorpeMatt Behrens45m
A live Twisted-based library called octothorpe controls Asterisk via AMI and async AGI, logs channel state, originates calls, captures DTMF, and builds IVR…
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The Quest for the Pocket-Sized PythonChristopher Neugebauer44m
State of the claim: full native apps in Python remain awkward — packaging a Kivy app adds about 6 MB and has a nontrivial startup cost, and…
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Warming up to GraphsBrad Montgomery49m
Quick primer on graphs then hands‑on work showing a Neo4j prototype using Python to persist and query a few thousand generated users and projects with directed…
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Panel Discussion: So You Wanna Run a Tech Conference.Catherine Devlin, Eric Floehr, Brian Costlow, Raymond Chandler, Jason Green, Jason Myers01h 00m
Conference runs as a free, volunteer-powered regional event that grew from ~40–50 people to its seventh year, funded by sponsors and split across 108…
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Solving the Heat Equation in Python!Melvyn Ian Drag01h 42m
Solves 1D and 2D heat equations by finite differences using a forward Euler time step and tridiagonal system assembly, then compares NumPy dense arrays with…
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Make API Calls Wicked Fast with RedisLindsey Brockman50m
Shows how Redis sits in front of API/database calls to cut response times from hundreds of milliseconds to single digits (examples: 236 ms first query, 120 ms…
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Python, Hardware, Networks and your toolbox for Interactive Art.Issac Kelly37m
A framed two-way mirror becomes a tiny interactive display built from a 32×40 LED matrix (Adafruit WS2812 tiles) driven by FadeCandy + Open Pixel Control and a…
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Analyzing social media data with PythonFletcher Heisler44m
Fletcher Heisler http://pyvideo.org/video/2850/analyzing-social-media-data-with-python http://pyohio.org/schedule/presentation/100/ What does the perfect tweet…
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Building Web APIs with Flask-RESTfulSam Kimbrel23m
Flask-RESTful is an extension that turns Flask views into class-based Resource handlers, replaces repetitive parsing and formatting with reqparse and…
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Docker 101: Meet the portable future (tutorial)Andrew T. Baker43m
Explains that Docker packages each process into lightweight isolated containers using a copy‑on‑write filesystem, with images built either by running a…
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A new default web stackSimon Willison49m
Proposes a practical Python web stack: add a full‑text index as a denormalized query layer (uses Solr (robust) not Elasticsearch after production issues)…
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HOWTO: Teach Python to ReadDouglas Starnes39m
Practical walkthrough of Python NLP using NLTK 2 with notes about NLTK 3, showing how to load corpora (Gutenberg example uses Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)…
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Using ZMQ for Fun and ProfitDavid Blewett40m
Shows how ZeroMQ composes a distributed pipeline with concrete patterns (Pub/Sub, Push/Pull, caution on Request/Reply), transports (inproc, IPC, TCP), and…
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Implementing Celery, Lessons LearnedMichael Robellard38m
Company moves from a Postgres-backed queue (running into millions a day, table bloat, and rare duplicate jobs) to Celery + RabbitMQ, adds separate…
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Five Ounce Racer - Revving Up Pinewood Derby Software in PythonMatt McElheny51m
Python reads a decades‑old Pax timer at 1200 bps with 7 useful bits and two stop bits using pyserial, masking off the high bit; the entire reader is under 50…
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Digging into Abstract Syntax Trees for analyzing and modifying Python programsAdam Haney27m
Shows how to parse source with inspect.getsource and ast.parse, walk trees with ast.NodeVisitor to collect defined vs called names using set difference, and…
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A gentle introduction to asyncioBrian Costlow58m
Covers Python 3.4’s asyncio as a concrete replacement for older async approaches, explains generators-as-coroutines, futures/tasks and the event loop APIs…
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Using the Shapely Package for the Care and Feeding of your 2-D Spatial DataAlison Alvarez41m
Shows concrete Shapely code for reading TIGER shapefiles with Fiona, creating buffers and unions, and simplifying 50k-point coastlines down to a few dozen…
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DjangularMatt Camilli42m
Implements the Django tutorial polls app as a REST backend and a single‑page frontend, using Django Rest Framework serializers and class‑based API views…
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Postgres with Python inside and out: PL/PythonJosh Williams51m
Shows how to install and use PL/PythonU in PostgreSQL to run Python code inside the database, creating a function that returns a set of composite type tweet…
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Functional programming in Python with PyToolzErik Welch46m
Library demo of toolz and cytoolz shows concrete utilities (pipe, compose, curry, memoize, dicttoolz, itertoolz) that extend itertools/functools and target…
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Bobo, a web framework that's easy to learn and rememberJim Fulton52m
Bobo is a tiny Python web framework focused solely on publishing objects over HTTP, not on databases or templates; it ships as a single-file installable with a…
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