April Meetup @ O'Brien's Pub

Hello everyone. Our next event will be at O'Brien's Irish Pub on Saturday, April 18th 2026 from 2 - 4PM (we usually hang out a little longer). We're looking forward to seeing new and familiar faces again!

We will be meeting in their open-air patio, way at the back of the pub. Attendance is free to all! You don't have to RSVP to attend, though it helps us to know roughly what numbers to expect.

Our speaker this month will be Neal Fultz, who will be presenting A Quick Tour of Marimo

Marimo is a next-generation computational notebook. We'll discuss a) its design differences vs Jupyter, b) how that affects my workflow as a data scientist, and c) share a short demo (!) of the main features. Plus, d) dropdowns and sliders.

Neal is a stats consultant at NJNM, data scientist at Tatari, and DS-in-residence at UCLA SSC-STATS. He does not work for Marimo. Recently he analyzed LAPD helicopters, AI Budgets, non-AI Art Budgets, Lincoln-Peterson Estimators, and GLMMs. Questions, comments and other inquiries can be sent to nfultz@gmail.com

As always, if you are interested in giving a talk at a future event, please message us and let us know (either here, or at https://socalpython.org/contact/). This is a great place to get speaking practice in a low-stakes, friendly environment, and to share your knowledge with an attentive and grateful audience!

Getting there

Car: There's a good deal of metered parking available on the nearby side streets, and its usually not too crowded on weekends. You can also park on the residential streets north of Wilshire (most are 2-hour parking districts during the day). Still, we'd recommend you consider carpooling if you can.

Bus: Big Blue Bus #2 stops directly across the street, and Big Blue Bus #1 stops at Santa Monica (which is just 2 blocks south). The nearest transit station is the 26th / Bergamot Station on the E-line, that lets out at Olympic (still a bit of a trek to the venue from there unfortunately).