From brianhray at gmail.com Tue Jan 7 14:40:25 2014 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 07:40:25 -0600 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] [ANN] ChiPy January: Dev Bootcamp this Thursday 9th at 7pm Message-ID: Stay warm, come to ChiPy... This month's meeting is brought to you by Dev Bootcamp, an immersive 9-week computer programming program. http://devbootcamp.com/ Food and Drink Provided! Free and open to everyone ( no prior Python or Programming experience required). Bring a friend. RSVP -> http://chipy.org Dev Bootcamp 351 West Hubbard St. Suite #701 Chicago IL 60654 When: Jan. 9, 2014, 7 p.m. Topics: - *Lexical Graphs with Natural Language Processing using NLTK* (0:30:00 Minutes) By: Brian Ray Brian will talk about his experiences using Python and NLTK http://nltk.org/ to run language comparisons to generate lexical difference graphs like the one mentioned in the "Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe" article. http://bit.ly/1cS46Ba The focus will be on the NLTK and how its internals work to process a language. This talk will be his best one ever. - *Garbage Collection w/ Ref. Cycles* (0:30:00 Minutes) By: Aaron Brady Reference counting is very useful but it has an odd problem. We employ a technique from graphs to approach it. The solution works but it's a bit slow. - *There were 986 roadway fatalities in Illinois in 2013. Where's the data?* (0:20:00 Minutes) By: Nick Bennett Seen on garish LED roadway signs all around Chicago on New Year's Eve, 2013: 986 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 2013. It leads to many questions: On what roads? When did the accidents happen? What do we do now? I'm scared to drive. I will talk about purging my fears by finding the data to answer some of those questions. http://tothebeat.github.io/fatal-car-crashes/This talk will involve PythonAnywhere, IPython, a module that's not even on PyPi (dbfpy), searching for and finding open government data, CartoDB, Google Fusion Tables, csv, and maybe Pandas. Rest assured, there will be no graphic photos. This will be our warmest meeting ever! RSVP Today http://chipy.org -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: