From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Tue Aug 8 09:31:00 2017 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 08:31:00 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChiPy August 2017 Meeting Message-ID: Hey all, ChiPy's August meeting is almost here. We have some good talks lined up this month. Hope to see you there! *When:*Thursday August 10th 6:00pm: Doors open; food arrives 7:00pm: Talks Start promptly at 7 *How:*You can rsvp at chipy.org or via our Meetup group. *Where:* ProcuredHealth 33 N LaSalle Chicago, IL 60602 After entering the building, check in with security and go down one level to The Vault. *What:* - *Selenium: Doing Magic with Websites Using Python* By: Seth Weidman Experience Level: Intermediate Selenium is an excellent package that lets you dynamically interact with websites right from your Jupyter Notebook. At Metis, we teach Selenium early in our bootcamp. We have a great Selenium tutorial that involves lets you make a reservation on OpenTable using Python. In addition, several students have already completed excellent projects using Selenium. During this talk, Seth Weidman, a Senior Data Science Instructor at Metis, as well as the following two current Metis students [TO BE DETERMINED] will be presenting the projects that they just completed. - *Tracking FCC bots with Python* By: Chris Sinchok Experience Level: Novice I've been doing a bunch of analysis on the recent FCC public comments in Python (https://medium.com/@csinchok/an-analysis-of-the-anti-title-ii-bots-463f184829bc). Due to this work, I was quoted in Gizmodo, Ars Technica, and the BBC. I'd like to talk about how I approached this problem, how Python helped make sense of my findings, and what my conclusions are. - *Fortune-Telling with Python: An Intro to Time Series Modeling * By: Jonathan Balaban Experience Level: Intermediate Description: a pythonic tour of time series methodologies and packages, including ARIMA, seasonal models, and Markov approaches. Intermediate level with basic statistics and time data familiarity required. Bio: Jonathan Balaban is a senior data scientist, strategy consultant, and entrepreneur with ten years of private, public, and philanthropic experience. He currently teaches business professionals and leaders the art of impact-focused, practical data science at Metis. Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsor: Metis. Also thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Signature Consultants, and Telnyx. Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: