ClePy July Meetup: PyOhio 2025 Preview

We will be hosted by the Greater Cleveland Partnership at their downtown offices.

PyOhio 2025 is coming up on July 26 and 27, 2025. In anticipation of the conference, we will be previewing presentations from two gracious speakers who have agreed to present at ClePy. For you it's an opportunity to see what's coming. For the speakers, it's an opportunity to practice their presentation and get feedback.

Registration for PyOhio 2025 is free and open here: https://www.pyohio.org/2025/attend/registration/

Meetup Agenda
6:00-6:30pm Social and Setup, Announcements.
6:30-7:30pm Presentations (see below)
7:30-8:00pm Social and Clean-up

Presentation 1
Tune-Up Your Knowledge: A Beginner's Journey Under the Hood of Search Engines
Speaker: Eddie Mitchell
Description: Many people drive their cars around all day and never look under the hood. Likewise, search is used every day, millions of times, with very little thought for how those results appear on your device. While I can't build a car engine from scratch (yet), I can build a search engine! (mostly).
In this talk, we'll take a beginner-friendly approach to discussing how search engines work under the hood while building one from scratch in Python along the way. We'll discuss some history of search, demonstrate common data structures that make search engines fast and effective, and review how we can get results in a meaningful order.
We'll also take a high-level look at machine learning models and how vector embeddings can easily understand similarity and influence search results.

Presentation 2
A Very Brief Overview of Python’s “Lang” AI Tools and Two Low-Code GUI AI Tools: Flowise and n8n
Speaker: Curtis Oneal
Description: AI is the theme of the moment - and even as a pythonista you might not know where to begin, or you may have started as you had time - and wished to go further. This talk is a guide about where some have gone, and where you might want to go with AI in python. But it is not the last stop. This talk is designed to be a stating guide to move from hobbyist level AI learning to more production-ready coding.

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Want to present a talk? Let us know on meetup or the #clepy channel on Cleveland Tech Slack.

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Want to present a Module of the Month? See here: https://github.com/CLEpy/CLEpy-MotM/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md