PyData Hamburg May 2020 - May the Source be with you

Hi Pythonistas

we are continuing community meetups in Hamburg, again in a remote format. This time we want to introduce you to two open-source endeavours from the ever growing Python universe. We are also bringing you a guest speaker from the international PyData community - live from Amsterdam.

What you need to know to participate in remote meetups:

• Our virtual room capacity is limited to 300 attendees. So RSVP on meetup.com please and do take the time to cancel if you cannot join.
• The link to the Zoom meeting will be displayed to you on meetup.com when you RSVP. Please do not share it.

See you soon
Your PyData crew

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# Agenda

• Announcements

• Talk 1 (45 mins)

• Talk 2 (30 mins)

• Community Networking

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# (Talk 1) Vincent Warmerdam: Chatting with Pokemon from the Command Line - An Open-Source Chatbot made with Rasa

In this talk Vincent will start from scratch to explain how Rasa (https://rasa.com) makes it easy to build a chatbot using open source tools. We’ll also see Vincent live code a contribution to an open source chatbot that allows you to ask anything about pokemon.

# (Talk 2) Dawid Golebiewski: Simplicity is a great virtue - unfortunately, complexity sells better

Network effects are all around us, from COVID19 to file sharing. Dawid will introduce cadCAD (https://cadcad.org), the only open-source library that spans agent-based and system dynamics for simulation of such effects. The live-coding session might involve viruses!

About the speakers:

Vincent Warmerdam is helping out the research and developer advocacy teams at rasa.com. This means that you can ask him anything related to NLP and chatbots. He also helped start PyData Amsterdam, which has been described as "simply the best data conference in the Netherlands."

Dawid Golebiewski is a machine learning engineer and contributor to cadCAD.

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PyData is a community for developers and users of open source data tools. PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1 512-222-5449; leah@numfocus.org) or the group organizer.