PyLadies Dublin 1st in-person meetup of 2024 @ Pinterest
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We are back with our first meetup of 2024!
🙏 A big thanks to Debbie from Pinterest who will be hosting us this month, they will also provide refreshments and light snacks.
💻 Don't forget to bring along your laptops (work on own project, share cool things with others, ask for help, deep dive with speakers, and more self-driven activities).
Rough running order (subject to change):
- 18:15 Registration; grab a bite & hot/cold beverages & settle in.
- 18:30 - 18:40 Welcome & announcements
- 18:40 - 18:55 Big Data Deletion Using Apache Iceberg and Airflow by Akshita Aggarwal
- 18:55 - 19:05 What Time Is It Right Now() by Antonia Baumann
- 19:05 - 19:35 Guerrilla Python: I’ll automate my job, even when engineers don’t help by Luca Lodi
- 19:35 - 19:50 Where Cybersecurity meets Python by Anna Baron Garcia
- 19:50 - 20:30 Talks, coding & Networking
- 20:30 Event ends
⭐️ BIG DATA DELETION USING APACHE ICEBERG AND AIRFLOW
Handling big data is challenging. The sheer volume of data, often in the terabytes or petabytes, makes storage, processing, and analysis difficult, requiring specialised tools and techniques. In this talk, we discover how we handle Data deletion on these big datasets at Pinterest and dive deeper into Apache Iceberg's innovative approach that transforms the landscape of big data management. From using Apache Airflow dynamic DAG mechanisms to adding customisation and robust testing, we walk through the data deletion landscape.
🙂 Akshita Aggarwal
⭐️ WHAT TIME IS IT RIGHT NOW()
What date & time is right now() depends on when you ask and where, as in which timezone you are located in. Python’s `datetime.datetime.utcnow()` function sounds like it has all of that information to provide you with a reliable datetime.
This talk explores the attractive nuisance that is `datetime.datetime.utcnow()` and what “aware” and “naive” time is in python.
🙂 Antonia Baumann
⭐️ GUERRILLA PYTHON: I’LL AUTOMATE MY JOB, EVEN WHEN ENGINEERS DON’T HELP
Jane just learned how to code and analyze data in python, her life is going to change for the better
She is looking forward to apply all those skills to the day to day tasks at work ... BUT!
IT does not allow to install python on the company laptop, requesting engineers to make the data available takes months,
data still need to be copied manually from some old web UI to an excel sheet for analysis ... frustration
This talk will cover concrete examples and tips to:
- Run python from your browser, without wasting tears on setting it up (pyodide)
- Scraping data from some web pages into Excel (CSS selectors and pandas)
- Other automation/analysis ideas with python, straight from the browser
🙂 Luca Lodi
⭐️ WHERE CYBERSECURITY MEETS PYTHON
Cybersecurity Engineering is a computer science discipline that had traditionally favored programming languages such as C and Assembly and scripting languages such as Bash and JS. So where does Python fit into cybersecurity?
This session introduces the benefits of python in cybersecurity and how you can use python to solve cyber challenges.
🙂 Anna Baron Garcia
== ABOUT SPEAKERS ==
🙂 AKSHITA AGGARWAL
⚡️ Software engineer at Pinterest
Akshita is a software engineer at Pinterest working on interesting challenges in Big data and Privacy. Her prior experience includes working with large-scale systems at Amazon Web Services and Goldman Sachs. She is always enthusiastic about exploring new technologies.
🙂 ANNA BARON GARCIA
⚡️ Vectra AI, Data Scientist
Anna Baron Garcia is a Data Scientist at Vectra AI. She received her MSc. in Cybersecurity Engineering and her Ph.D. in EE&CS from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her research areas include Machine Learning for Cybersecurity and Aerospace Cybersecurity.
🙂 ANTONIA BAUMANN
⚡️ Pinterest, Software Engineer
I studied computer science at Trinity College Dublin. Previous to Pinterest I worked for Microsoft for 3 years. Most of my professional experience is on the Frontend especially in React & Typescipt, but my work at Pinterest is Fullstack and includes python backend work as well.
🙂 LUCA LODI
⚡️ Dev @ Pinterest
Luca is a Python enthusiast, working at Pinterest.
Favourite colour: yellow.
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📢 CALL FOR SPEAKERS
Interested in speaking at our upcoming meetups in 2024:
https://sessionize.com/pyladies-dublin-meetup
🔍 FAQ
Q. I'm not female, is it ok for me to attend?
A. Yes, PyLadies Dublin events are open to everyone at all levels.
Q. What do you do at PyLadies Dublin Meetups?
A. We have short (or long talks), demos, folks working on their own projects, ask questions on Python-related topics, work on projects together or generally chit-chat & meet like-minded people.
Q. Do you have a Code of Conduct?
A. Yes, you can find it at dublin.pyladies.com