August SoCal Python meetup at Thrive Market (Marina del Rey)

This August meetup will be in Marina del Rey, at Thrive Market [https://thrivemarket.com] !

Please be considerate of our resources, and only RSVP "Yes" if you can actually come! Otherwise you are excluding others from the event, and hurting our sponsor's ability to plan for the correct quantity of food and drink they're generously providing us.

===== Talk 1 =====
Why should I learn Pandas? by Stephen Pettinato, Data Scientist at ThriveMarket.com

Pandas is a popular data analytics and data wrangling tool used by Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Data Analysts. Despite this, the learning curve is steep and rationalization and encouragement is required to get past being a beginner. This talk focuses on practical reasons that Pandas is useful as well as Big Data extensions to Pandas concepts of functional transformations using DataFrames.

===== Talk 2 =====
Writing for Engineers by Liz McFarland, Technical Writer

Bad documentation is the worst. In this talk, I’ll explain what makes bad docs bad and how to make them better. Whether your company has dedicated technical writers or you pass all writing duties off to the engineer with the least amount of typos, I’ll cover general writing advice and best practices applicable to all who care about good documentation.

===== As always =====

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