From iggy_fernandez at hotmail.com Mon Nov 11 19:11:17 2019 From: iggy_fernandez at hotmail.com (Iggy Fernandez) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:11:17 +0000 Subject: [Baypiggies] Community announcement: Free Python workshop organized by the Northern California Oracle users group Message-ID: This workshop has been organized by the Northern California Oracle Users group (NoCOUG), a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) organization that has been serving the Oracle Database community of Northern California for more than thirty years by organizing four conferences a year and publishing a quarterly journal. Download the complete digital archive of the NoCOUG Journal using: ?wget www.nocoug.org/Journal/NoCOUG_Journal_{2001..2019}{02..12..3}.pdf?. Quickly Build Python Apps with Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Database by Santosh Kumar Ramarathnam & Rajneesh Tiwary, Oracle 10:30 AM?1:15 PM on Thursday, November 21 at CSU East Bay Oakland Center in the Trans Pacific Centre, 1000 Broadway, Suite 109 Oakland, CA 94607 Register in the ?Python Meetup Member? category at http://nocoug.org/rsvp.html using the free registration code PYTHONROCKS. Free lunch is included. You are also welcome to attend other conference presentations. As a developer you want to do what you do best: write code. Often, developers are sidetracked setting up infrastructure and configuring networks and databases, etc., in the cloud, taking away valuable time. This does not occur in the Oracle Cloud infrastructure. With a developer-ready marketplace and the autonomous database service, you can go from zero to a fully functional Python app in one hour. This is a hands-on workshop to build a full-stack Python application. Whether you?re a developer or a DBA writing automation scripts in Python, this lab will be helpful for you. We will provision a Python app server and an autonomous transaction-processing service in Oracle Cloud, and deploy a Python app. Oracle Cloud accounts will be provided. You will learn to: ? Set up a cloud environment ? Load and access data ? Build and test a Python REST Service ? Derive insights into customer and service provider data Experience a day in the life of Derek McCarthy?a full-stack developer for the fictitious company Alpha Office. Derek has been hired to introduce new best practices to Alpha Office microservices developers. In this workshop you will take on Derek?s persona to build a series of three cloud-based microservices database applications. In doing so, you will leverage the latest and most advanced Oracle and open-source technologies. As Derek, you will spin up a new Oracle Cloud Developer Image from the Oracle Marketplace to quickly and easily deploy a complete development environment that is accessible from any location. You will also deploy the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (Autonomous Transaction Processing) Cloud Service, providing the full power of the Oracle database while requiring minimal administrative effort and minimal database knowledge and training. Additionally as Derek, you will work within the Oracle Cloud Developer Image to create Python microservices. You will utilize the best open-source technologies to complement the Python language, including the Visual Studio Code IDE, the Flask micro web framework, the Bokeh interactive visualization library, and the ReactJS Facebook JavaScript library. Finally, as Derek you will create a pair of spatial applications. To do this you will utilize the GeoPandas extensions to Python together with Oracle Spatial functionality within the Autonomous Transaction Processing database. Please bring your own laptop and install prerequisite software: ? Putty (https://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/) (Windows only) ? VNC Viewer (https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/) Oracle will provide $500 cloud platform credit for no charge; credit card information is not required. Attendees can also take advantage of the following Oracle Cloud Free Tier Services that they can use for an unlimited time: ? Two Oracle autonomous databases with powerful tools like Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle SQL Developer ? Two Oracle cloud infrastructure compute VMs; block, object, and archive storage; load balancer and data egress; monitoring and notifications Register in the ?Python Meetup Member? category at http://nocoug.org/rsvp.html using the free registration code PYTHONROCKS. Free lunch is included. 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There are lots of beginners (many of whom are interested in tutoring/classes), but also some pretty incredible high-performance computing types. We'd love your participation and feedback. Please add yourself to the group and let me know if you'd like to chat. We plan to start our programming in earnest in Jan 2020. best, Paul paulkarayan at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grace at pybay.com Tue Nov 19 00:17:14 2019 From: grace at pybay.com (Grace Law) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:17:14 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Call for Lightning Talks at the 5th Annual SF Python Holiday Party on Dec 4 Message-ID: Hi there, Hope you are as excited about the 5th Annual Holiday Party on *Wednesday, Dec 4* at Yelp in SF as we are. In case you haven't heard the raved reviews, the Holiday Party is the largest gathering of Python Devs in SF Bay Area outside of PyBay, the Regional Conference. This year, we will have 8-lightning talks, a *panel discussion* on Best Practices in *Scaling Python Code Base* with *Brett Slatkin* (Effective Python Author), *Lisa Roach *(cPython Core dev), and *Mahmoud Hashemi* (PSF fellow and organizer of Pyninsula meetup), live music, raffle, good food, beer, and more... Please help us make this special evening even better by submitting a 5-mins lightning talk *by this Friday EOD*! Yes, tell us about your latest discovery and healthy obsession. Our preference is for topics that have a wide appeal. Fun/Light-hearted humor is not required but encouraged. If we don't have enough good submissions, we will continue to evaluate late submissions. Early bird tickets to this always sold out event is available now. If you change your mind, you can always transfer the ticket to someone else. Thanks in advance for supporting our fundraising effort. ? We are looking forward to seeing you on Dec 4! Grace Law PyBay Conference Chair and SF Python Organizer 415-323-0388 / grace at pybay.com SF Python is a volunteer-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area. We produce ~20 educational events a year including PyBay , the Regional Python Conference in SF. Learn more Attachments a ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this talk, we'll learn about what makes visualizations effective, shed some light on the powerful but complex Matplotlib library. Finally, we'll look at Bokeh - a more modern library, and create static, interactive and streaming visualizations. GitHub: https://github.com/surfaceowl-ai/python_visualizations Speaker Bio Chris Brousseau is a Data Scientist and Founder of Surface Owl, a SaaS-based visual decision engine built on Python. He is also an active member of BayPiggies and several other local Python communities. Before Surface Owl, Chris spent over 18 years at Accenture where he did business and systems consulting for global clients. On a personal note, Chris is a native Vermonter, an avid skier, and loves visualizations. *Website:* http://baypiggies.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: