Python Porto #12 in Blip. March

Python Porto community in partnership with Blip.pt is happy to announce the March Python Porto meetup. Traditionally, the meetup will take place in the cozy and spacious kitchen of the Blip office. If you have been there, you should know and love this place for sure, and if you haven’t yet, you will like it as much as we do.

AGENDA

• 19:00 — 19:15. Opening talk
• 19:15 — 19:45. Ricardo Lafuente "Python hacks for data, graphics and more"
• 19:45 — 20:30. Coffee and networking break
• 20:30 — 21:00. Rui Quintino "Jupyter Notebooks Tips & Tricks"

PYTHON HACKS FOR DATA, GRAPHICS AND MORE BY RICARDO LAFUENTE

We'll go through a set of use cases where Python fits neatly, sometimes in weird ways, in subjects ranging from vector graphics generation to web scraping. Real-world examples will help provide useful tips and insights for both seasoned hackers and novice Pythonistas.

Ricardo is Editor and Data Architect at J++, Designer at Manufactura Independente, and helps run the Date With Data civic tech meetups in Porto.

That's what Ricardo himself said about his presentation.

> In a nutshell, I'll be presenting some recipes we've developed in many contexts where Python became vital to ease our workflow and help us make and design better things. Talks where experienced practitioners share their little-known hacks are my personal favorite, so I thought I'd go ahead with it since it ensures it'll have something for everybody. During the talk I'll be framing this with some context about our data journalism practice, as well as some civic tech tools we're developing at the Date With Data meetups.

You can read more about his projects and challenges on http://ricardolafuente.com/

JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS TIPS AND TRICKS BY RUI QUINTINO

Jupyter notebooks are an amazing tool for Data Science & Machine Learning! But how can we make them absolutely awesome? We’ll find out in this session while we explore several tips, tools & practices to get the most out of notebooks.

Rui Quintino is Senior Architect & Data Researcher at DevScope and works with Microsoft data related technologies since 1998. Currently works on Data Research & Advanced Analytics team at DevScope, learning and evaluating Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & data science frameworks and how they can fit & bring added value to DevScope products & SaaS solutions offerings.

Follow Rui on Twitter https://twitter.com/rquintino