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🌟🚀 Seattle Spark and PyData co-host event - RSVP here!
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🍬 🍭🍿 Happy 2023 and we're going to kick start it with our first meetup back in Seattle downtown at the Common Room offices in Pioneer Square! Come for great technical content, discussions, and food!

🌷 🌸 🌼 💞 💟 Raffle! 🎉:

• 1 Ticket to PyData Seattle 2023 💖 1000 in-person attendees, 3-day conference, April 26 - 28 Hosted by Microsoft. 1 ticket for PyLadies [Ticket price > $500] - Sponsor NumFOCUS
• 5 Books! Learning Spark - Sponsor Databricks Denny Lee!

Agenda

• 6pm: Doors Open, Eat, & networking 🍔 🍕
• 6:30pm-7:10pm: Building Data Orchestration for Big Data Analytics in the Cloud by Jasmine Wang and Shouwei Chen from Alluxio
• 7:15pm-7:55pm: Koushik Krishnan - Talk: Notebooks as Functions
• 8:15pm Close up

Session 1: Building Data Orchestration for Big Data Analytics in the Cloud
Abstract:
Originally developed from UC Berkeley AMPLab as research project "Tachyon", Alluxio (www.alluxio.io) implements the world’s first open-source data orchestration system in the cloud. Alluxio creates a unified access layer for data-driven applications in bigdata and ML, enabling Spark, Presto or TensorFlow and etc to transparently access different external storage systems while actively leveraging in-memory cache to accelerate data access.
In this talk, the speaker will present
- New trends and challenges in the data ecosystem in cloud era
- Effective Data engineering in the cloud world with data orchestration
- Production use cases of using popular stacks like Presto/Alluxio/S3

💖 Speakers

🌷🌸 Jasmine Wang is the Head of Community and DevRel at Alluxio. She is a former national debate champion who turned into a traveling yoga teacher with a strong passion in building teams and being the bridge at early startups in Silicon Valley. Previously, she worked as the Head of Global Talent Acquisition and Operations. Currently she is building the Alluxio open source community, responsible for community, developer relations, developer experience, and cross-community collaborations at Alluxio.

🌸 🌼 Dr. Shouwei Chen is a core maintainer and product manager of open-source Alluxio. Before joining Alluxio, Shouwei received a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University. Shouwei’s research focuses on the codesign of the memory-centric computing frameworks with in-memory distributed file systems in large-scale environments.

🚀🤟 Koushik Krishnan is a Site Reliability Engineer at Yugabyte. Talk: Notebooks as Functions
Jupyter notebooks are a wonderful environment to write code for both beginners and experienced individuals. The hard part comes when you want to take your notebook and productionize it. That's where Jupyrest comes to the rescue. Jupyrest is a tool that can turn Jupyter notebooks into HTTP functions. It's a serverless platform for Jupyter notebooks. I created Jupyrest at Microsoft and open sourced it earlier this year. In this talk I'll demonstrate how to use Jupyrest to productionize your Jupyter notebooks.

🌸 Thank you for your support to @NumFOCUS, your participation help us to bring awareness to NumFOCUS a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing projects for Data Science, including: Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, IPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, Julia and many other cool open source data science projects.

💛 💜 Become a NumFOCUS Member!
Help sustain the open source data stack by becoming a NumFOCUS member

NumFOCUS envisions an inclusive scientific and research community that utilizes actively supported open source software to make impactful discoveries for a better world.

 
 
 

PyData Seattle 2023 💖 1000 in-person attendees, 3-day conference, April 26 - 28 Hosted by Microsoft.
https://pydata.org/seattle2023/

Diversity Scholarships 💝 🌷 by NumFOCUS 💙 💚

🌎 💕One of PyData Seattle confenrence's goals is to increase awareness and excitement around opportunities for underrepresented groups in software engineering and data analytics. To increase diversity in scientific computing, our outreach program ranges from hosting workshops that introduce programming to young women to encouraging diversity in speakers at PyData.

🌸 🌼 Are you a member of an underrepresented group in technology and/or open source and looking for ways to develop your career further and increase your professional impact?

Apply here 💟 https://forms.gle/wyU9KHeBQ6baqbtU8

Through the #PyData Diversity Scholarship, you will get connected to other professionals in the field and learn from their experiences.

Timeline:
• Jan 19: Applications open
• February 21: Application deadline
• February 28: Award letters to successful applicants

💝 Everyone is welcome to apply.

Help us spread the word our call for proposals is open! 💖 🚀 Submit a talk or tutorial here https://pydata.org/seattle2023/present/

- Reach an expected target audience of 1,000 in person attendees
- Increase awareness of your products and services
- Gain access to decision makers in fields such as Big Data, Data Analysis, Data Science, Python programming, R, Julia among other related software programming languages.
- Present your organization to our Seattle Tech community

💚💙 Sponsorship
A special call to all our allies/individuals 💛 you can contribute to the open source community with sponsoring one scholarship for women who may otherwise be unable to attend the conference. Contact us at [masked] or fill out this form here https://forms.gle/aRarqBKB78CKkEz27

🌟 Startups/Enterprises 🌷🌸 View sponsorship prospectus here: https://pydata.org/seattle2023/sponsors/ or contact [masked]

💖🚀🌸 Become a NumFOCUS Member! https://numfocus.org/

💝🌷 NumFOCUS 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific projects for Data Science, including: Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter, Julia, SciPi, Sympy, Scikit-learn, R and many more!

NumFOCUS envisions an inclusive scientific and research community that utilizes actively supported open source software to make impactful discoveries for a better world 🌎 💕