PyData 2014 | New York | November 22 - 23

Conference Schedule

Schedule for Saturday, Nov 22, 2014

Time	Track 01	Track 03	Track 02
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast Room: 1 - 10th Floor
9:00 - 9:10 a.m.	Travis Oliphant (Co-Founder & CEO, Continuum Analytics) Welcome Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Greg Reda (Datascope Analytics) Translating SQL to pandas. And back. Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Bugra Akyildiz (Axial) A Machine Learning Pipeline with Scikit-Learn Level: Intermediate Room: 3 - 9th Floor
9:10 - 9:50 a.m.	Andy Terrel Continuum Analytics, NumFOCUS Python in the Hadoop/Spark Ecosystem Room: 1 - 10th Floor
9:55 - 10:25 a.m.	Daniel Krasner (KFit Solutions/Columbia University) (Easy), High Performance Text Processing with Rosetta Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor
10:35 - 11:05 a.m.	Adam Hajari (Next Big Sound) From DataFrame to Web Application in 10 minutes Level: Novice Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Tobi Bosede (NYC Pyladies) PyCassa: Setting up and using Apache Cassandra with Python (in Windows) Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Jason Grout (IPython, Bloomberg) Advanced IPython Notebook Widgets Level: Advanced Room: 3 - 9th Floor
11:10 - 11:40 a.m.	Stefan Urbanek (Squarespace) Data warehouse and conceptual modelling with Cubes 1.0 Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Luis Miguel Sanchez (ttwick) Using Python to design a parametric catastrophic (CAT) earthquake bond and predict its credit spread. Level: Intermediate Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Karan Dodia (Continuum Analytics) Rapid Exploration and Visualization of Large Datasets Room: 3 - 9th Floor
11:45 - 12:15 p.m.	Sasha Laundy (Polynumeral) How to Make Your Future Data Scientists Love You Level: Novice Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Anna Herlihy (MongoDB) Monary: Really fast analysis with MongoDB and NumPy Level: Intermediate Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Hugo Shi (PyData Conference) KitchenSink - framework for working with remote datasets interactively Level: Novice Room: 3 - 9th Floor
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 p.m.	Yves Hilpisch The Python Quants GmbH Python for Quant Finance Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Julia Evans (Stripe) Recalling with precision Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Manuel Rivas (University of Oxford) Python for Personal and Population Genome Interpretation Level: Novice Room: 3 - 9th Floor
2:25 - 2:55 p.m.	Matthew Rocklin (Continuum Analytics) Blaze Foundations: Part 1 Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Michael Becker (DataPhilly) Data Science: It's Easy as Pyǃ Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	BOF Healthcare Analytics Room: 3 - 9th Floor
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.	Phillip Cloud (pandas, Continuum Analytics) Driving Blaze in the Real World of Data Land Mines Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Milos Miljkovic (Hyperion Analytics) Analyzing Satellite Images With Python Scientific Stack Level: Intermediate Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Kevin Wilson (Knewton) Evaluating skills in educational and other settings: An overview Level: Intermediate Room: 3 - 9th Floor
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 - 4:15 p.m.	Sudeep Das (OpenTable Inc.) Using Data Science to Transform OpenTable Into Your Local Dining Expert Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Kyle Beauchamp (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) , Patrick Grinaway (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Omnia.md: Engineering a Full Python Stack for Biophysical Computation Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Tim Spurway (Mozilla) Disco: Distributed Multi-Stage Data Pipelines Room: 3 - 9th Floor
4:20 - 5:10 p.m.	Huy Vo NYU-Poly, CUSP TaxiVis Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Matthew Rocklin (Continuum Analytics) , Stefan Urbanek (Squarespace) Python in Business Intelligence: What's Missing? Room: 2 - 8th Floor	BOF Data Community/Meetup Organizers Room: 3 - 9th Floor

Schedule for Sunday, Nov 23, 2014

Time	Track 01	Track 02	Track 03
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 a.m.	Julie Steele Silicon Valley Data Science How to Data So People Will Listen Level: Novice Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Neal Snow (University of South Florida) Straight from the horse's mouth: Working with XBRL tagged 10-Ks Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Dan Foreman-Mackey (NYU Dept. of Physics) Time series analysis using Gaussian Processes in Python and the search for Earth 2.0 Level: Intermediate Room: 3 - 9th Floor
9:55 - 10:25 a.m.	Daniel Blanchard (Educational Testing Service) Simple Machine Learning with SKLL 1.0 Level: Novice Room: 1 - 10th Floor		Akira Shibata (Shiroyagi Corporation, PyData Tokyo) Putting Together World's Best Data Processing Research with Python Level: Intermediate Room: 3 - 9th Floor
10:35 - 11:05 a.m.	Bryan Van De Ven (Continuum Analytics) Beautiful Interactive Visualizations in the Browser with Bokeh Level: Novice/Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Andreas Mueller (NYU CDS, scikit-learn) Advanced scikit-learn Level: Advanced Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Jared Lander (Lander Analytics) Decreasing Uncertainty with Weakly Informative Priors and Penalized Regression Room: 3 - 9th Floor
11:10 - 11:40 a.m.	Olga Botvinnik (University of California, San Diego) Data-driven conversations about biology Level: All Room: 1 - 10th Floor		Mike Pittaro (Dell) High Performance Hardware for Data Analysis Level: Novice Room: 3 - 9th Floor
11:45 - 12:15 p.m.	Ian Huston (Pivotal) Using Cloud Foundry for Data Driven Python apps Level: Novice Room: 1 - 10th Floor		Ritesh Bansal (Rational Insights) Python for Fun, Profit and Retirement Planning Room: 3 - 9th Floor
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 p.m.	Jeff Reback pandas, Continuum Analytics New Features in pandas Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Michelle Fullwood Grids, Streets & Pipelines: Making a linguistic streetmap with scikit-learn Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Jonathan Dinu (Zipfian Academy) On Building a Data Science Curriculum Level: Novice Room: 3 - 9th Floor
2:25 - 2:55 p.m.	Stephen Pimentel (FoundationDB) Python as a Query Language for Distributed Key-Value Stores Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Hannah Aizenman (Cuny Graduate Center) Get To Know Your Data Level: Novice Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Saul Diez-Guerra (Thinkful) Performance Python Room: 3 - 9th Floor
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.	Matt Greenwood (Two Sigma Investments) , Scott Draves (TwoSigma, Beaker Notebook) The Polyglot Beaker Notebook Level: Novice Room: 1 - 10th Floor	James Powell (NYC Python) Title Coming Soon Room: 2 - 8th Floor	BOF Biological Data Science Room: 3 - 9th Floor
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 - 4:15 p.m.	Stefan Karpinski (Julia) Julia + Python = ♡ Level: Intermediate Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Alain Ledon (Baruch College) , Amit Bhattacharyya (Sr Data Scientist, Teachers Pay Teachers) Logistic Regression & NFL Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Tony Tran (SF Bay Area Machine Learning) Making BIG DATA smaller Level: Novice Room: 3 - 9th Floor
4:20 - 5:10 p.m.	Lightning Talks Room: 1 - 10th Floor	Lightning Talks Room: 2 - 8th Floor	Lightning Talks Room: 3 - 9th Floor