PyBerlin 26 - 🌱 Spring event & Women's Day celebrations 🌱

Agenda:

• 18:00 - Welcome to PyBerlin! // Organisers

• 18:15 - Dataset Curation // Jigyasa Grover

Talk description:
In the contemporary world of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, data is the new oil. For Machine Learning algorithms to work their magic, it is imperative to lay a firm foundation with relevant data. It introduces the first act of Machine Learning, Dataset Curation. This book puts forward practical tips to identify valuable information from the extensive amount of crude data available at our fingertips.

Speaker's bio:
Jigyasa is a Machine Learning Engineer by profession and currently work at Twitter, Inc. in San Francisco. She recently co-authored a book titled Sculpting Data for ML: The first act of Machine Learning which is a culmination of her myriad of experiences from brief stints at Facebook, Inc., National Research Council of Canada, and Institute of Research & Development France involving Data Science, mathematical modeling, and software engineering. Having graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a Master’s degree in Computer Science with an Artificial Intelligence specialization, she is presently plying her past experiences and knowledge towards Applied Machine Learning in the online advertisements prediction and ranking domain. Red Hat 'Women in Open Source' Academic Award Winner and Google Summer of Code alumna, she is an ardent open-source contributor as well.

• 18:50 - Testing the tox 4 pre-release at scale // Jürgen Gmach

Talk description:
Every once in a while, you may read that for one of your favourite packages a new version get announced. Maybe the maintainers then politely ask you, the user, to test the package, and give feedback if anything is broken. I did that for my 10 or so personal and work related repositories. But how do you this for hundreds and hundreds of repositories?

Speaker's bio:
Jürgen is a software developer / Linux sys admin with a deep passion for Python and open-source in general.

• 19:10 - Should We Return to Python 2? // Miroslav Šedivý

Talk description:
Did you migrate all your projects to Python 3 or kept a backdoor open just in case?
Migration to Python 3 is over, but that's not the end of the journey. Although your code runs with the currently supported Python 3.6 to 3.9, there may be some pieces of code that look obvious to you, but may surprise younger developers who have never seen Python 2 code.

One year after the end of life of Python 2.7 I started looking for Python projects on GitHub and helped them to get rid of those Python 2 relics. I'll show you a few recipes beyond the automatic tools, how to make your code modern and prepared for future updates.

And no, we should not return to Python 2. We should get rid of it completely.

Speaker's bio:
A greedy polyglot, data & open source rhymer, Python charmer, sustainable urbanist, unicode collector, wandering openstreetmapper, and an hjkl juggler. @eumiro at twitter/github/stackoverflow

• 19:45 - "Food for Thought - What if corona never happened?" // Padma Srinivasan

Speaker's bio:
Padma Srinivasan is a Senior Analyst at Free Now.

• 20:00 - Closing session // Organisers

This event will be hosted in zoom, as well as also streamed into twitch account: https://www.twitch.tv/anastasiiatym

Feel free to choose a format of the event, which you prefer:

• join the zoom session to be able to talk to the speakers
• join our streaming to be able to listen and only write a question you have or any comments, we will pass them to the speakers, no worries

Event will be recorded and shared on our youtube channel if speakers will allow us to share their talks. Please register for this event to see a zoom link for the event ;-)

See you soon!