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Thanks to DIT (http://www.dit.ie/) for hosting our December meetup.

Talk: Python Development Using Nix By Michael Twomey

"Virtualenv for all your non-python stuff"

NixOS and the Nix package manager bill themselves as having a "purely functional" approach to managing your OS and packages. While this sounds fancy what this boils down to is the ability to create environments for your projects which have everything they need, with exact versions in that single environment (even down to your libc).

This talk will describe Nix (and a little about its bigger sibling, NixOS), and then go on to show you how to use Nix to make your development life a little easier.

Want to experiment with a new version of a major dependency but you don't want to break your system version? Easy, create a Nix environment with just that version updated.

Want to fix an issue on that old project which depended on an older version of a library? No problem, its Nix environment will have exactly what it needs, independent of everything else on your system.

Bonus: it works the same on Mac and Linux, so don't need to faff around with VMs and Docker to hack on stuff.

ABOUT Michael Twomey (https://twitter.com/micktwomey)

Engineer, cat herder and occasional Coding Grace mentor.

Talk 2: A Matplotlib User Guide, Part I by Anthony Munnelly

The sheer size of the Matplotlib documentation can make it very tricky to navigate. I've had to navigate it, and now I'd like to come back and show the path to others. I hope to look at line, scatter, bar and boxplots, as well as figure and axes objects. I'm saving histograms and dates for later, I think.

ABOUT Anthony Munnelly (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/anthonymunnelly)

Former journalist, current bookmaker, now trying to some halting steps into Data Science. Currently studying for the Udacity Nanodegree in Data Science.

Post-Talk venue

Against the Grain (Upstairs) from 8PM.

If you cannot make it to the talks, we will see you at the pub. :-)

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