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Open-source BusinessPyData Paris 20252025-09-30
Claims about funding and governance hit specifics: a €80M Series A example, government grants seeding projects, and companies of ~30 employees balancing paid…
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AI in Reality Fireside Chat: Enterprise AI & Open‑Source InnovationPyCon DE & PyData 20252025-04-23
Covers concrete enterprise moves: Merck runs a four‑year AI program for 63,000 employees, prototypes LLMs, then abandons an internal clone for a partnership to…
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Beyond Agents: What AI Strategy Really Needs in 2025PyCon DE & PyData 20252025-04-23
GTC observations condense into concrete shifts: NVIDIA markets a compact developer box with 128 GB of VRAM and about one teraflop for local model work…
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Ten Years of Community OrganizerPyCon Italia 20242024-05-22
Ten years of running community events culminate in concrete lessons: volunteer teams scale well until about 1,500 on‑site attendees, finance and legal need an…
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Ten Years of Community OrganizerPyData NYC 20232023-11-01
Ten years of organizing work claim concrete wins: program chair for 5 years running selection and recordings, migration from ad hoc Google Drives to documented…
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5 Things about fastAPI I wish we had known beforehandPyCon Italia 20232023-05-25
FastAPI runs on Pydantic, Starlette and Uvicorn, so Pydantic does parsing not strict enforcement: validators must return value and the default behavior lets…
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Lessons Learned About Data & AI at Enterprises and SMEsPyData London 20222022-06-17
Claim: enterprises and SMEs behave differently enough that cannot buy AI must build it becomes operational advice — commodity APIs ok, domain models require…
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5 Things You Want to Know About AI Adoption in the EnterprisePyCon DE & PyData Berlin 20222022-04-11
Claims five concrete executive questions that decide scale not hype and shows why prototypes usually stall: a Jupyter prototype that fails in production…
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Better Code for Data SciencePyData Global 20202020-11-11
Argues that pragmatic engineering habits — project layout, tests, packaging, dependency pinning, code review and reproducible environments — turn notebooks…
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Speech Synthesis with Tacotron2 and PyTorchPyData Amsterdam 20192019-05-10
Implements Tacotron2 with PyTorch and trains on mel spectrograms to map text to audio samples, using an English public dataset of ~24 hours and a selfmade…
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How I Made My Computer Write it's First Short StoryPyData Berlin 20182018-07-06
Uses PyTorch and a local eGPU / GTX 1080 to train models that attempt full episodes: character-aware text generation from fan transcripts, TTS trained on the…
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Databases for Data SciencePyData London 20182018-04-26
Shows concrete claims and runnable tools not buzzwords: compares Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra and Neo4j with query examples, mentions MongoDB aggregation…
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Effective Data Analysis with Pandas IndexesPyCon.DE 20172017-10-25
Demonstration shows how Pandas indexing (especially TimeSeriesIndex) changes workflows: timestamps become index objects allowing dot-year/month access, slicing…
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Introduction to Data-Analysis with PandasPyData Berlin 20172017-06-23
Covers a hands‑on Pandas workflow using Jupyter notebooks and examples that read CSV/Excel/JSON/SQL/HTML via read_csv / to_excel on a ~1,000‑row, 7‑column…
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Data Analysis and Map-Reduce with mongoDB and pymongoEuroPython 20152015-07-20
Live demos show mongoDB aggregation pipelines doing match project group unwind and date operators on a 37 GB dataset compressed to about 9 GB with 1.3 million…
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