PyData Paris - September 2022 Meetup

Mark your calendar for the next session of the PyData Paris Meetup, September 8th 2022.

This Meetup will be hosted by Hugging Face:
124 rue Réaumur (4th floor), 75002 Paris.

The speakers for this session are Antoine Pitrou and Denisa Checiu.

Schedule

7:00pm - 7:15pm: Community announcements
7:15pm - 8:00pm: Antoine Pitrou - The State of Arrow
8:00pm - 8:45pm: Denisa Checiu - Visual Programming in JupyterLab with Blockly
8:45pm - 9:30: Buffet

Abstracts

Antoine Pitrou - The State of Arrow

When Apache Arrow took life in 2016, it was a format specification with two reference implementations. Since then, the format gained additional features; more than ten implementations officially exist with extended functionality; and other specifications have been established, all based on the Arrow format, so as to address more interoperability scenarios. In this talk, we are going to give an overall view of what Arrow is today and where it is heading.

Denisa Checiu - Visual Programming in JupyterLab with Blockly

Block-based programming offers the unique opportunity of teaching basic yet fundamental programming concepts without the challenge brought on by the specific syntax of text-based programming languages. Wishing to provide a smooth ramp of complexity for learners, we designed a JupyterLab extension for Blockly, such that Jupyter can now be used all throughout a student's learning journey, without the hassle of having to switch to a completely new environment at any point along the way. In this talk, we will also dive deeper into how JupyterLab-Blockly can be used as base for other extensions, providing the perfect tools for cool robotics applications, such as JupyterLab-Niryo-One!

As a preview, you can read more in our new blog post: https://blog.jupyter.org/visual-programming-in-jupyterlab-with-blockly-7731ec3e113c