Let's try to make sense of data on Valentine's Day

On February 14, yes, that's Valentine's Day. Surround yourself with ~170 of your favorite peeps at SF Python's presentation night and let's try to make sense of these data, shall we?

If you'd like to present a 5-mins lightning talk at a future meetup, please submit your talk ideas here.

Our generous sponsor Yelp will also provide pizza and beer for the evening.

Lightning Talks (5-mins)

Adopting PyTest by Darshan Ahluwalia

Poochr: how to recommend dog breeds using deep learning by Aaron Wiegel

Takes Two to Data Clean by Raul Maldonado

If you'd like to present a 5-mins lightning talk at this or future meetup, please submit your talk ideas here.

Main Talk #1 - Understanding A/B test analysis by simulating data

ABSTRACT

A/B tests are at the heart of every data driven company, but how well do we understand the statistical tests available to us, especially when the data are far from textbook examples? Experimentation is a great way to learn and get an intuitive feel for the math underlying A/B test analysis. By simulating data and turning a few knobs, we can observe how test analysis results behave. Topics covered: - Sampling from random distributions using numpy and scipy. - Parametric and non-parametric tests in scipy. - Efficient randomization tests in Python. - Visualization with matplotlib, Bokeh, and Holoviews. - Interactivity with Jupyter notebooks and ipywidgets.

BIO

Dennis O'Brien is Director of Data Science at GSN Games where he creates models, builds pipelines, wrangles data, runs experiments, and extracts insights from data. He has been in the video game industry for almost 20 years and has used Python in every job along the way.

Main Talk #2 - Deep Learning with PyTorch

ABSTRACT

1. What's Deep Learning and how is it different from Machine Learning
2. What's PyTorch and why are people excited about it.
3. What are the important differences between PyTorch and other frameworks like Tensorflow / Keras.
4. Walk through a few examples to highlight the API and design choices that sets PyTorch apart.

BIO

Ramesh Sampath is an Machine Learning Engineer with a background in software engineering. He loves to build Machine Learning models and deploy them as API services. Although he's been working on Deep Learning models recently using PyTorch and TensorFlow, he has special affinity for Numpy, Pandas and Scikit-Learn. He co-wrote a python ML Library called ML-Insights to introspect Scikit-Learn Models (http://ml-insights.readthedocs.io/).

Agenda

6:00p - Check-in and mingle, with pizza and beer provided by our generous sponsor Udemy!

7:05p - Welcome

7:10p - Talk #1 and Q&A

7:50p - Announcements and lightning talks

8:10p - Talk #2 and Q&A

8:50p - More mingling

9:30p - Hard stop

SF Python is run by volunteers aiming to foster the Python community in the Bay Area. Please consider making a donation to SF Python and saying a big thank you to Yelp for providing pizza, beer, and the venue for this Wednesday's meetup.

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