PyData 2015 | Dallas | April 24 - 26

Conference Schedule

Schedule for Friday, Apr 24, 2015

Time	Track 1	Track 2
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 10:20 a.m.	Vivian Zhang (SupStat, NYC Data Science Academy) Python Data Analytics Workshop - NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and SciPy Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Bugra Akyildiz (Axial) A Thorough Machine Learning Pipeline via Scikit-Learn Level: Intermediate Room: 100
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.		Chou-han Yang (BloomReach Inc) Briefly : A Python DSL to Scale Complex Mapreduce Pipelines Level: Advanced Room: 100
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Bryan Van De Ven (Continuum Analytics) Bokeh Tutorial Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Andy R. Terrel (Continuum Analytics, NumFOCUS) , Christine Doig (Continuum Analyitcs) Building Python Data Applications with Blaze and Bokeh Level: Advanced Room: 100
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.	Break & Snacks
3:15 - 5:15 p.m.	Rajat Arya (Sr. Product Manager, Dato) , Yucheng Low (Dato Inc) Building machine learning applications in Python Level: Novice Room: Great Room	---------- Open Micro-Hackathon Level: Intermediate Room: 100

Schedule for Saturday, Apr 25, 2015

Time	Track 1	Track 2
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 a.m.	Peter Wang (Continuum Analytics) State of the Py, 2015
10:00 - 10:40 a.m.	Andy R. Terrel (Continuum Analytics, NumFOCUS) Python in Scientific Research Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Paul Ingram (HUGEdata) Calling Distributed Python from Inside SQL — A technical look at implementing a scalable SQL/ Python hybrid Platform Level: Novice Room: 114/116
10:50 - 11:30 a.m.	Cliff Click (H2O.ai) H₂O Machine Learning Level: Novice Room: Great Room	James Powell (NYC Python) Integration With the Vernacular (the NumPy Approach) Level: Intermediate Room: 114/116
11:40 - 12:20 p.m.	Phillip Cloud (pandas, Continuum Analytics) Blaze in the Real World Level: Intermediate Room: Great Room	Daniel Lathrop (The Dallas Morning News) Python for the News Level: All Room: 114/116
12:20 - 1:20 p.m.	Lunch
1:20 - 2:10 p.m.	Dana Bauer (Rackspace) Keynote Title Coming Soon
2:20 - 3:00 p.m.	Oliver Nagy (Private) A Game Engine For Engineers Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Rajat Arya (Sr. Product Manager, Dato) Deploying scikit-learn Models in Production Level: Intermediate Room: 114/116
3:00 - 3:20 p.m.	Break & Snacks
3:20 - 4:00 p.m.	Paul Joireman (physIQ, Inc.) Assimilation - From C to Python Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Volodymyr Kazantsev (Product Madness) Beyond t-tests: how to conclude an online experiment using python Level: Intermediate Room: 114/116
4:10 - 4:50 p.m.	Jason Vertrees (RealMassive) Introducing the World of Commercial Real Estate Data to App Developers Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Meltem Ballan (Terastructure) Transitioning an idea from Academia to Commercialization: A Startup Story Level: Novice/Intermediate Room: 114/116

Schedule for Sunday, Apr 26, 2015

Time	Track 1	Track 2
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 a.m.	Jon Riehl (jonriehl.com) Python is for the Curious
10:00 - 10:40 a.m.	Denis Akhiyarov (todo) Where Python Meets Real-Time Data Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Yucheng Low (Dato Inc) SFrame: A Scalable, Out-of-Core Dataframe for Machine Learning Level: Intermediate Room: 114/116
10:50 - 11:30 a.m.	Ben Zaitlen (Continuum Analytics) Odo:shape-shifting data—a handy tool to guide you from CSV->HDFS and beyond Level: Intermediate Room: Great Room	Kyle Maxwell (Verisign) Using Python to Fight Cyber Crime Room: 114/116
11:40 - 12:20 p.m.	Paige Bailey (Chevron, PyLadies-HTX) There's No Place Like Home: Analyzing HPD Police Beat Data with Python and ArcGIS Level: Novice Room: Great Room	Chenyi Hu A Python Module for Data Analytics with Interval Computing Level: Intermediate Room: 114/116
12:20 - 1:20 p.m.	Lunch
1:20 - 2:10 p.m.	Jeb Stone (FareCompare) , Jigar Mistry (UT Dallas) , Rohan Patil (UT Dallas) Panel - Social Media Analysis in Python Level: All Room: Great Room
2:20 - 3:00 p.m.	Kyle Kelley (Rackspace, IPython) To the Future with Jupyter Level: All Room: Great Room	Prabhu Saiprabhu "Sai" (Edico Research Inc.) Hashtag Buddies Level: Intermediate Room: 114/116
3:00 - 3:20 p.m.	Break & Snacks
3:20 - 4:00 p.m.	Christine Doig (Continuum Analyitcs) Reproducible Multi-language Data Science with Conda Level: Intermediate Room: Great Room	Chengkai Li (UT Arlington) Data Science for Computational Journalism Room: 114/116
4:10 - 5:15 p.m.	Lightning Talks