2021 End of Year Celebration! 🎉

📢 Cincinnati Software Craftsmanship welcomes… you! 📢

💬 EVENT DESCRIPTION 💬

For December, we will be celebrating another year of great meetups with a series of lightning talks!

⚡️ ABOUT LIGHTNING TALKS ⚡️

Lightning talks are quick, focused presentations, about 5 to 7 minutes long. They have the potential to launch hobbies, change lives, and incite laughter. Learn something and be entertained at the same time!

🎉 SELECTED LIGHTNING TALKS 🎉

Merry Graphmas for Yule All! – Sarah Dutkiewicz

Explore the holidays of the season explained with a graph database! Join @sadukie on this adventure using Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API!

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Docs >= Code – Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Documentation is onboarding, continuing, explaining, growing. It allows new members of your community access to what they need and creates an environment where community and/or product to not only survive, but thrive and exceed expectations.

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Curry On My Wayward Son – Jake Witcher

Curried functions are essential to functional programming but they can also be kind of scary. With the help of Sam, Dean, and their ‘67 Impala, you’ll discover that rather than something to fear, curried functions are here to help, adding composability to your toolkit.

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Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? Let's ask Azure! – Matt Eland

When it comes to popular Christmas movies there's a recurring debate as to whether or not that list of movies should include the 1988 film Die Hard. This talk explores the use of Azure Automated Machine Learning (Auto ML) to build a classification algorithm that can evaluate movies to determine if they should be considered a Christmas movie.

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The Anatomy of a GraphQL Query – Lucia Cerchie

What's GraphQL? What's a GraphQL query? What about queries, fields, and types? Get a quick intro to the basics in this talk and come away feeling a little more knowledgeable about this new query language.

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How Social Media Can Land You Your Dream Job – Taylor Desseyn

Do you know actually how to use LinkedIn? How about twitter? What is polywork? Do you need it? (you do). This talk goes over all these platforms and how to leverage them to find a job!

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Sh*t My Candidates Said – Cassandra Faris

You've applied for jobs & probably been spammed by clueless recruiters. Did you know recruiters also get spam & clueless candidates? Listen to a former tech recruiter share the most ridiculous, offensive, & plain silly things she heard from candidates. You'll laugh & learn.

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⚠ THIS MEETUP WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY ⚠

🕛 AGENDA 🕛
The meeting will be split between social and presentation periods. If you are interested in joining us for the social period, please connect to zoom. To join the presentation, hop onto twitch! ❤
All times are listed in Eastern Time Zone.

6:00-7:00: Presentation on Twitch
7:00-7:30: Post-presentation Networking/socialization on Zoom

🎫 HOW TO ATTEND 🎫
Social times: [Link published just before the meetup]
Presentation: https://www.twitch.tv/softwarecraftsmanship