January New Year SoCal Python meetup in Venice

Happy New Year! SoCal Python is kicking off 2018 in style, with a meetup at Google in Venice!

IMPORTANT

NOTE: Google security requests you RSVP with your full name. Please contact the organizers if your username is not already your full name.

RSVPs help our sponsors estimate how much food/drink to provide for us. If your plans change or you cannot attend, please RSVP "NO" so we can plan accordingly and so that everybody who can attend can get into the event!

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AGENDA

Our first speaker will be Irina Truong, backend engineer at Parse.ly (https://www.parse.ly):

How to convert your SQL queries to Pandas, and more

This talk is for developers who feel comfortable querying data with SQL, but don’t feel quite the same way when they need to query something in Pandas. Translating from the declarative syntax of SQL to the functional chains of Pandas is not intuitive, but once you grasp the main constructs, you’ll be able to build more advanced queries on top of that.

Our second speaker will be Irina Kukuyeva, Ph.D., Sr. Data Scientist at Dia&Co (https://www.dia.com):

Productionalizing Machine Learning Models: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Data science teams tend to put a lot of thought into developing a predictive model to address a business need, tackling data processing, model development, training and validation. After validation, the model then tends to get rolled out -- without much testing -- into production. While software engineering best practices have been around for a long time, until recently, no formal guidelines existed for checking the quality of code of a machine learning pipeline.

The talk will cover tips and best practices for writing more robust production-ready predictive model pipelines. We know that code is never perfect; Irina will also share the pains and lessons learned from experience productionalizing and maintaining 4 customer-facing models at 4 different companies: in online advertising, consulting, finance, and fashion.

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PARKING AND DIRECTIONS

Google's Venice offices are on Main St. between Rose Ave and Sunset Ave. Complimentary valet services available until our lot fills up. Folks can pull up at 340 Hampton Dr. and valet will take it from there.

There is also street parking on the streets nearby. For this event you will be entering through the parking lot on the corner of Sunset Ave and Hampton Dr, the South East corner of the building.

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ABOUT SOCAL PYTHON Please feel free to reach out via the contact page if you would like to present at future meetups!

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