[omaha] pyData - Dallas Conference

[Bob Haffner]

I ended up going to this.  It was my first pydata so I can’t compare to the
others.  However, it seemed to be more of a regional event in terms of
speakers and attendees.



My two big takeaways were Blaze and Bokeh.  Both are open source projects
driven by Continuum.



Blaze aims to give you a common interface across multiple backends/data
crunchers.  So the aggregation statement below could be used against a
Pandas dataframe or a postgres db or hdfs.  Blaze does the translation and
passes the workload off to the backend.



import blaze as bz

bz.by(db.iris.Species, longest=db.iris.PetalLength.max(),

                              shortest=db.iris.PetalLength.min())



I use Pandas for most things, but I could see blaze being useful for bigger
things.  It also has a nice function called Into that moves data around
between backends pretty easily.



Bokeh is a very impressive data visualization module.  You can produce
sharp, interactive visualizations.  You write python and bokeh translates
it into javascript.  I currently use matplotlib and occasionally seaborn,
but I’m going to take a hard look at bokeh.  I believe there’s a bokeh
server for distribution and web stuff as well.



Anyone have any experience with or opinions about blaze or bokeh?





On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Adam Shaver <adam.shaver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lots of continum analytics staff are presenting (the makers of anaconda).
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Bob Haffner <bob.haffner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I got my eye on this one
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <
> jeffh at dundeemt.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > http://pydata.org/dal2015/schedule/
> > >
> > > I know there are some in the group who are into big data.  Saw this on
> > > twitter, thought I would forward it.  Looks like the end of April.
> Early
> > > reg ends Apr 2.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Jeff Hinrichs
> > > 402.218.1473
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