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Gathering Related Functionality: Patterns for Clean API Design (Paul Ganssle)

This talk will arm you with some tools to design a library that 'just works', but also has obvious escape hatches to handle corner ...

What a Bug can Teach You about Python (Brad Dettmer)

We'll take a look at some Python code that has a strange bug in it. You'll learn why it's a bug and why it only occurs with larger ...

Open Sourcing at Work (Faisal Dosani)

PyCon Canada • Apr 27, 2019

We just open sourced 2 projects (datacompy, and locopy) with roots in Data Science and Engineering which we will showcase.

API Evolution the Right Way (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)

Library maintainers, how can you innovate without breaking projects that depend on you? Follow semantic versioning, add APIs ...

How to Design and Build a Recommendation System Pipeline in Python (Jill Cates)

PyCon Canada • Mar 14, 2019

Want to know how Spotify, Amazon, and Netflix generate recommendations for their users? This talk walks through the steps ...

WSGI for Web Developers (Ryan Wilson-Perkin)

PyCon Canada • Mar 14, 2019

WSGI is the foundation of most Python web frameworks, but there's a good chance you've never had to interact with it directly.

Keynote talk (Solmaz Shahalizadeh)

PyCon Canada • Mar 12, 2019

Solmaz is the VP of Data Science and Engineering at Shopify leading the data organization. Her teams build the data platform ...

Who's There? Building a home security system with Pi & Slack! (Ian Whitestone)

PyCon Canada • Mar 11, 2019

How does one make use of that raspberry pi they bought years ago? This talk will summarize how you can turn your raspberry pi ...

Why is Python ideal for research software development? (Pradeep Reddy Raamana)

PyCon Canada • Mar 10, 2019

Python is showing an incredible growth in many fields, including academia. By enumerating the challenges we face in sustainable ...

From Zero Code to Python Code (Nicole Parrot)

PyCon Canada • Mar 9, 2019

Teaching computational thinking in the classroom is a challenge as there's a wide range of skills, including the teacher's.

A Bossy Sort of Voice: Uncovering gender bias in Harry Potter with Python (Eleanor Stribling)

Harry Potter is an incredibly popular franchise that shaped a generation, but it's also been critiqued for its biased portrayal of ...

Software Design Simplified (Alex Tucker)

Software design is a tricky to get right, even for experienced developers. There is simply too much choice and too much ...

The landscape of Quantum Computing in Python (Tomas Babej)

Quantum computing is an exciting scientific field that is coming out of the lab to the real world (e.g. IBM, Google). Let's dive into ...

Replacing Guido (Brett Cannon)

PyCon Canada • Mar 6, 2019

On July 12, 2018, Guido van Rossum gave himself 'a permanent vacation from being BDFL' with no guidance on how to proceed.

When Technical Debt Congeals: My Sabbatical with the Government of Canada (Jason White)

Jason took a short leave of absence to help the Canadian federal government adopt modern software development practices.

How our Python bot found your baseball ticket (Valérie Ouellet)

Creating a custom database by mining five ticket sellers allowed us to expose staggered rollouts, experiments with variable ...

The state of Open Source in Robotics, Cloud Computing, and Cancer Research (Daniel Snider)

I posit that well-made, open-source platforms with industry specific goals put more new tools in developer's hands each year than ...

Using Python to detect malicious events at scale at Symantec Research Labs (Daniel Kats)

Symantec's data lake is filled with exabytes of data. My team uses python to trawl through it to fish for hackers, and sometimes we ...

Using Python to Quantify Portfolio Diversification (Robin Warner)

Diversification is a portfolio construction and risk management technique used in finance that aims to minimize the impact of any ...

Identifying influencers via Slack Messages in Python using Network Analysis and NLP (Eva Sasson)

Learn how to build a network web in Python to reflect conversations between people based on Slack conversations. Then, build a ...

Automate the Boring Stuff: Using Python to Improve University Courses (Swaleh Owais)

One course at McMaster University spends over twenty thousand dollars per semester on TA salary. Over the past 16 months, we ...

Building and scaling Deep Learning Services (Nischal Harohalli Padmanabha)

Deep learning systems have to be engineered in order to be used in solving an end to end business problem. One of the ...

A Deep Learning Approach to Annotating de novo Transcriptome Assemblies (Matt Stata)

In computational biology, assembling transcriptomes without a reference genome poses a challenge and results in many variant ...

How not to overfit your predictive models (Rebecca Tessier)

This talk will give a brief overview of validation & selection techniques for predictive models and common occurrences of ...

Scaling multi-tenant apps using the Django ORM and Postgres (Sai Srirampur)

In the real-world there are 10000s of B2B companies. Their app-stack fits the multi-tenant model - each tenant(customer) deals ...

The Adventures of a Python Script! (Dema Abu Adas)

Have you ever wondered what happens between the time you run helloWorld.py and the terminal prints out “Hello world”? I will be ...

Easy as ABC: A Quick Introduction to Bayesian A/B Testing in Python (Will Barker)

A/B testing is a valuable and in-demand skills that data analysts, BI developers, and data scientists have in their analytical toolkits.

Your Special Abilities and Python (Jeannette Washington)

The most unstoppable programmers have been in a situation where a system has gone down or their code broke, and they were ...

Lessons learned open sourcing (and maintaining) my first library (Nicole Carlson)

Last year, I open-sourced my first library, PyMC3 Models. This talk has two parts: things I learned as I was writing my library and ...

Using Python to find Russian Twitter troll tweets aimed at Canada (Roberto Rocha)

Paid internet trolls linked to the Russian government tried to influence the U.S. election with divisive social media posts. But they ...

Numpy To PyTorch (Shagun Sodhani)

Numpy is the de-facto choice for array-based operations while PyTorch largely used as a deep learning framework. At the core ...

Lessons learned migrating a large python application (Joseph Kahn)

At Wave, I've been a part of the team, from inception to now, rewriting and replacing the old accounting system. I want to talk about ...

Guide to your own artificial intelligence application in 3 easy steps (Norah Klintberg Sakal)

What do you think of when you hear “artificial intelligence”? Perhaps self-driving cars, autonomous robots and Siri, Alexa or ...

Data Science, from Concept to Production (Chris Menezes)

So you've got an idea for a machine learning product, but how do you actually get it to production? From going on-call for ML ...

CircuitPython: Python on hardware (Dave Astels)

Python has made the jump to embedded software running on microcontroller hardware. This talk will introduce CircuitPython: a ...

Get Productive with Python in Visual Studio Code (Dan Taylor)

Visual Studio Code is the most popular tool used by developers in Stack Overflow's 2018 developer survey, and is quickly ...

Detecting Supernovas with Python (Pippin Lee)

There's a telescope that sits on a mountaintop in the Chilean desert––its job is to capture and help scientists understand the dark ...

PyCon Canada 2018 - Graham Toppin (Saturday Afternoon Keynote)

Graham is the VP of Applied Sciences and Research at Wave, where he's responsible for the integration of new technologies and ...

PEP 572: The Walrus Operator (Dustin Ingram)

In this talk, we'll learn about a highly controversial proposed change to Python syntax, the rationale for it, and the fallout as the ...

Rain or Shine - How Freshbooks Guarantees Email Delivery (Anton Nguyen)

FreshBooks sends thousands of transactional emails every day - invoices, estimates, invitations, etc... This talk will go into how we ...

PyCon Canada 2018 - Froilán Irizarry (Sunday Morning Keynote)

Froilán Irizarry is a developer, community builder and recovering entrepreneur. He's worked with enterprise companies, ...

Surviving Success: How-to Approach Scaling Python Web Apps (Dorian Pula)

This talk walks through how to approach successfully scaling a Python web application. I break down the problem of scaling in ...

Intake - taking the pain out of data access (Martin Durant)