Inaugural Meetup

If you work with data or would like to learn how to work with data, please join us for Calgary's first PyData meetup.

This will be updated with more details closer to the event. Please contact the organizer if you are interested in presenting at this or a future event or if you have a particular topic you would like to learn more about.

The meetup will take place on the University of Calgary main campus.

Come meet other Data Wranglers and learn more about Jupyter Notebooks, pandas, Numpy, matplotlib, and related data science libraries.

If you are currently using open source data tools, we would love to hear about how you use these tools, what data you analyze and what problems you solve.

Agenda

6:00 pm - Doors Open/Networking/Introductions

6:15 pm - PyData Calgary Group Introduction

6:30 pm - Presentation(s)

• Brief introduction to the PyData stack - a quick tour of the modules and tools available, how they fit together and why use PyData.

• User stories and examples - Short presentations from new and experienced users describing how they use PyData or what they would like to do. (Please contact the organizer if you would like to speak.)

• Statistics in Python using Statsmodels (http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/) - like Stata, SPSS, SAS, etc. you can estimate statistical models (OLS, logistic regression, etc.) in Python. We will walk through specifying models using an R-like notation, estimating them and interpreting the results.

Presenting

We are looking for presenters for this meeting and future meetings. If you would like to make a presentation on a particular module, a data analysis you have done or another related topic, please contact the organizer.

Projects and Problems

If you're working on a sticky data analysis or having a problem using a particular tool or library, bring it along to the meeting. There will be time towards the end of the meetup to ask questions and work on projects.

Code of Conduct

To ensure the safety and comfort of attendees, we will be strictly following the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct (http://www.numfocus.org/code-of-conduct.html) at this event.

Questions, Comments, or Concerns

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the organizer, Stephen Childs, at Stephen (dot) Childs (at) ucalgary (dot) ca.

Parking

A university campus map is available at http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/ and parking information is at http://www.ucalgary.ca/parking/ .

After 3:30, Lot 13 (and 21, 31, 33 and 34) becomes a flat rate lot ($8). Lots 10, 11 and 32 are $7.

The Mac Hall parkade is probably the closest place, but it is $6 per hour.

There is some free parking after 6 pm in the university research park - on 33rd St NW just north of 32nd Ave.