PyLadies Dublin Feb Meetup @ Qualtrics

We are happy to announce that Qualtrics will be hosting us this month, they'll be providing food and beverages as well. 🙌

Feel free to add any announcements, resources to share and for me to shout out at the beginning of the event:
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/SE8ZNuDS29Fg4tqCsADEn0aA/

Don't forget to bring your laptop. Let's make this evening as interactive as possible.

Running Order

18:30 - 18:50 Registration
18:50 - 19:00 Welcome and Announcements
19:00 - 19:30 Are you supporting the right politician? - Graph Visualization of Voting Data by Cheuk Ting Ho
19:30 - 19:50 The "Obvious" way of coding by Dennis Callanan
19:50 - 20:30 Deep dive with speakers, ask questions, work on own project, pair programming, chit-chat, it's up to you what you want to do. 😊

Talks

Talk 1: Are you supporting the right politician? - Graph Visualization of Voting Data by Cheuk Ting Ho

Description:
(30 mins) It’s time for the election, a major of people will vote for the politician according to the political parties they affiliated. Do you really know the standpoint of politician that you vote for on different issues? Do you trust the politician that you vote for is representing you in the council? Have you been monitoring their votes in the council on different issues? In this talk, we will be identifying real ‘parties’ by voting records rather than by stated affiliation using a knowledge graph. We will walk you through how to do it and hopefully, you will find the representatives that you vote for are doing the right things for you.

About Cheuk Ting Ho
After her career in Data Science, Cheuk is now a developer advocate for TerminusDB. She is also an organizer for Python and Data Science community. She frequently speaks at various conferences. https://cheuk.dev

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Talk 2: The "Obvious" way of coding by Dennis Callanan
(20 mins) The python community prides themselves in being able to solve problems or express algorithmic solutions in a "pythonic" way. One aspect of the Zen of Python is: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it". In this talk we discuss some horrible syntax and ways of expressing solutions in other languages, and compare them to concise, readable, python code. Prepare for audience interaction.

About:
Dennis studied in Ireland and the US (North Carolina), and after working as a data analyst and innovations engineer in AIB, joined Qualtrics as a Software Engineer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dencallanan/

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CALL FOR SPEAKERS

Interested in speaking at our upcoming meetups, please submit talk details to: https://pyladiesdublin.typeform.com/to/Rr6hVJ

QUESTIONS

Email dublin@pyladies.com.