PYPTUG Monthly Meeting: Plotly, dash and company

Come join PYPTUG at out next monthly meeting (September 19th 2017) to learn more about the Python programming language, modules and tools. Python is the ideal language to learn if you've never programmed before, and at the other end, it is also the perfect tool that no expert would do without. Monthly meetings are in addition to our project nights.

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What

Meeting will start at 6:00pm.

Main Talk: "Plotly, dash and company"

by Francois Dion

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Abstract:

There are many visualization packages available out there, each best suited to specific scenarios. In the past several years, I've covered Matplotlib, Seaborn, Vincent, ggplot, 3d visualizations through matplotlib, D3.js and mpld3 and Bokeh.

In this presentation we will cover plotly (for javascript, R and Python to name a few) and related packages and when it makes sense to use it.

Bio:

Francois Dion is the founder and Chief Data Scientist of Dion Research LLC, specializing in analytics, data science, IoT and visualization.

He is the author of several open source software, such as stemgraphic ( http://www.stemgraphic.org ), the founder of the Python user group for the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina ( http://www.pyptug.org ) and mentors various groups in Python, R and analytics at large.

You might have run across his multiple part series on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ex-libris-data-scientist-part-i-francois-dion) on data science books, including part V (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ex-libris-data-scientist-part-v-visualization-francois-dion) on Visualization.

When:

Please note, this meeting will be one week early in the month compared to our normal schedule:

Tuesday, September 19th 2017

Meeting starts at 6:00PM

Where:

Wake Forest University, close (http://www.pyptug.org/#) to Polo Rd and University Parkway:
Manchester Hall (https://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8853adf8a66abbeb:0x4f3c2974056734e5&q=Manchester+Hall,+Wake+Forest+University,+Winston-Salem,+Forsyth,+North+Carolina+27109&hl=en&ved=0CA0Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=fIsfUfbaH4jXtwekkoCYDA&sig2=MC3330le_mXYLLbeNvW6FA)

room: Manchester 241

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Map this (https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wake+forest+university+manchester+hall&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&biw=2560&bih=1223&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)

See also this campus map (PDF) (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Fcampusmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNHq-Y3F69Sr2sfBFpvWYp2RIyaWcQ&sig2=h5WySkZBe9JMLW_tTA2U8A&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ) and also the Parking Map (PDF) (Manchester hall is #20A on the parking map) (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wfu.edu%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fvisitors%2Freynolda.parkingmap.pdf&ei=dIsfUaOrJqrs0QHNv4HACw&usg=AFQjCNGfb8tz-NfpCdnDO3JSaYJqxvswDQ&sig2=MkplRokwE-AdfpMGh3ebBw&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dmQ&cad=rja)

And speaking of parking: Parking after 5pm is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The official parking policy is:"Visitors can park in any general parking lot on campus. Visitors should avoid reserved spaces, faculty/staff lots, fire lanes or other restricted area on campus. Frequent visitors should contact Parking and Transportation to register for a parking permit."

Mailing List:

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It is the only step required to become a PYPTUG member.

Please RSVP so we have enough food for people attending!