Conference Schedule

View past PyData event schedules here.

Tutorial Sessions — Friday Aug. 26, 2016

  Room 1 Room 2
8:00 AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:00 AM Learning scikit-learn -- An Introduction to Machine Learning in Python Sebastian Raschka Pandas: .head() to .tail() Tom Augspurger
10:30 AM

Break

10:45 AM pomegranate: fast and flexible probabilistic models in python Jacob Schreiber Building a Recommendation Engine with Neo4j and Python Kevin Van Gundy
12:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM Luigi & Data Pipelines Hunter Owens A Quickstart Guide to PyMC3 Nicole Carlson
2:45 PM

Break

3:00 PM Intro to Julia Huda Nassar Popping Kernels: An Exploration of Kernel Development for Jupyter Notebooks Safia Abdalla
3:45 PM Using Dask for Parallel Computing in Python Skipper Seabold
5:15 PM

General Sessions — Saturday Aug. 27, 2016

  Room 1 Room 2
8:00 AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:00 AM

Opening Notes

9:15 AM

Keynote
Katy Huff

10:00 AM Forecasting with the Kalman Filter Mike Mull Deconstructing Feather Bill Lattner
10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM Adding Image and Voice Intelligence to Your Apps with Microsoft Cognitive Services David Giard Don't Live Patch Your CPython Interpreter James Powell
11:45 AM It's Not Magic: Explaining Classification Algorithms Brian Lange Mind the Gap! Bridging the pandas – scikit-learn dtype divide Tom Augspurger
12:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM Keynote: Using Data Science for Social Good: Examples, Opportunities, and Challenges Rayid Ghani
2:15 PM Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow Joel Grus Data Engineering Architecture at Simple Rob Story
3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM Pyglmnet: A Python package for elastic-net regularized generalized linear models Pavan Ramkumar High Frequency Trading in MMORPG Markets using Luigi, Pandas, and Scikit-learn J. Henry Hinnefeld
4:00 PM Deploying Machine Learning using sklearn pipelines Kevin Goetsch What Data Analysts Wish Application Developers Knew Alison Stanton
4:45 PM

Lightning Talks

5:30 PM

General Sessions — Sunday Aug. 28, 2016

  Room 1 Room 2
8:00 AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:00 AM Keynote: Developing Communities to Develop Themselves Matthew Turk
9:45 AM Implementing distributed grid search for deep learning using scikit-learn and joblib Mike Heilman Embracing the Monolith in Small Teams: Doubling down on python to move fast without breaking things. Leon Sasson
10:30 AM

Break

10:45 AM Finding Driving-Style Patterns in Caterpillar Machine Data Benjamin Hodel Creating a Contemporary Risk Management System Using Python Piero Ferrante
11:30 AM Python Framework for Zero-shot Learning Approach: An Application on Network Intrusion Detection. Jorge Luis Rivero Pérez A Year of Pyxley: My First Open-Source Adventure Nicholas Kridler
12:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM Keynote: Builtin Superheroes David Beazley
2:00 PM When Worlds Collide: Productionalizing a Data Science Model Tudor Radoaca, Nicole Carlson AutoDocish: Automated-ish Dataset Documentation Elizabeth Wickes
2:45 PM Using Exploratory Data Analysis to Discover Patterns in Image and Document Collections Mehrdad Yazdani Create Spark REST APIs with flask Michael David Watson
3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM Genotype-Phenotype Modelling with Python and Machine Learning Mat Kallada Using Twitter's Breakout Detection Package Eric Bunch
4:30 PM Evolutionary Algorithms: Perfecting the Art of "Good Enough" Liz Sander Machine learning techniques for data cleaning Cathy Deng
5:15 PM

Closing Notes & Door Prizes

5:30 PM