PyData Triangle Sept 2023 Meetup

PyData Triangle welcomes you to another exciting event.

This will be an online event. You must RSVP to this meetup event in order to see the Teams/Zoom URL. Revisit this page on the day of the meeting, as the URL might change.

Speakers:

• Lili Dworkin and Genevieve Heidkamp

• YOU: Lightning Talks (Sign-up for a 5 minute lightning talk slot at the meeting by posting in the chat. Or pre-sign-up by posting a comment into this announcement.)

Schedule:

6:00-6:15 announcements

6:15-6:45 Lili Dworkin

6:45-8:00 Genevieve Heidkamp

8:00-8:30 Lightning talks

The PyData code of conduct ( http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html ) is enforced at this Meetup. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the meetup at the sole discretion of the meetup organizer.

NOTE: This meeting will be recorded.

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Presenter: Lili Dworkin

Title: Introducing Recidiviz - the 'what/who' and the mission

Presentation Overview:

We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.

Bio:

Lili Dworkin is a Tech Lead Manager at Recidiviz, where she leads the engineering team building the technical infrastructure for the Justice Counts initiative. Previously, she spent four years at Facebook, where she led an engineering team developing internal and open-source platforms for experimentation and optimization. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Haverford College, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Presenter: Genevieve Heidkamp

Title: The Recidiviz data pipeline

Presentation Overview:

Here is the 'how' Recidiviz accomplishes their mission.

• How we understand data available with a state

• How we receive that data

• How we interpret that data and ingest it into our state-agnostic schema

• How that schema fuels downstream analysis for use in initiatives and products.

Bio:

Genevieve is an Implementations Engineer at Recidiviz. Previously, she was Impact Systems Senior Manager at New Story Charity, where she led projects focused on innovation in the affordable housing sector. Most notably, she was the project lead for the world's first community of 3D-printed concrete homes, located in Tabasco, Mexico. She holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame with a supplementary major in Spanish Language and Literature and is currently working towards her M.Sc in Business Analytics from Georgetown. When she's not working on developing technology in the social impact space, Genevieve can be found completing the daily NYT crossword puzzle, continuing her quest to bake every item from a recipe book she was gifted, working out, or slipping into philosophical discussions during casual conversations.