PythonKC Summer Meetup

RSVPs will open two weeks before the meetup.

Gates Brown (https://www.meetup.com/members/196008200/) will present The Basics of Pandas: Not for the Bears. The Pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org) package allows for efficient data manipulation and visualization. This overview will focus on using the Pandas package in a Jupyter notebook, reading data into a dataframe, data manipulations, and visualizations.

Stephen Christensen (https://www.meetup.com/pythonkc/members/26545892) will present GeoDev Maester Training: Forging Your Chain with Python and GDAL. Learn the fundamental concepts of development with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using Python and the Geographic Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) (http://www.gdal.org). After a basic introduction to GIS, we'll walk through the key ideas behind building your own GIS solution with lots of code samples. At the end, we'll go through a real demo that implements many of the concepts.

Alfonso Hernandez (https://www.meetup.com/pythonkc/members/80971692) will present Computational Photography using OpenCV and NumPy. This talk will briefly go over the mathematics of digital photo editing – namely how images are encoded as matrices and can be edited using linear algebra. Luckily, OpenCV (http://opencv.org) abstracts away a lot of the math behind the scenes to simple function calls. I'll discuss setting up your own environment and demonstrate the OpenCV library. Applications include image blending, filtering, edge detection, and more.