Python Ireland Monthly Meetup

Join us for our monthly event in DogPatch Labs in the CHQ.

We have two talks for today:

Talk 1: Elias Kelly - An introduction to spacy.io for NLP in Python

Natural language processing is a major area in machine learning currently used for deriving meaning from language using statistical model to intemperate meaning from text data. Spacy.io is a python library which is written from the ground up in carefully memory-managed Cython. Independent research has confirmed that spaCy is the fastest in the world. If your application needs to process entire web dumps, spaCy is the library you want to be using. In this talk I will be going over some of the basics of spacy and what it can do and what meanings we can find from text.

Talk 2: Antonio Bevilacqua - Learn to curse with Python

Every programming language has its caveats, traps, tricks and nonsenses - its wats. While simple and consistent, Python is not out of the game, albeit most of its edge behaviors are not apparent, as they are caused by underlying code optimization. In this talk, I'm going to show some of the most common Python gotchas, referring to the CPython implementation version 3.5, showing how they can lead unaware or inexperienced programmers to catastrophic and unexpected results. There will be space, of course, for simple Easter eggs left around by humorous contributors!

If you want to submit a talk proposal, please do so here: http://python.ie/meetups

If you wish to sponsor a venue, please contact meetups@python.ie