From kd at karend.net Fri Feb 23 02:56:14 2024 From: kd at karend.net (Karen Dalton) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:56:14 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] BayPIGgies March 21 in person -- "Mock It Till You Make It", "Pandas, Polars, and Arrow", and "The Fun World of SRE" Message-ID: *HELLLLOOOOOOO BayPIGgies! * * BayPIGgies will be meeting in person Thursday March 21, 2024!* *NOTE:* We are still finalizing the details on the March location which will be either in Mountain View or San Jose. RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/baypiggies/events/299305900 *Schedule:* 6:30 Socialize and grab food 6:45 Welcome and Announcements 6:55 Lightning Talk: The Fun World of SRE 7:05 Lightning Talk: Better Together: Unleashing the Synergy of Pandas, Polars, and Apache Arrow 7:20 Main Talk: Mock It Till You Make It: How to Verify Your External Mocks Without Ever Leaving Unittest ***** Lightning talks ****** -- *"The Fun World of SRE"* presented by Sangeetha Sridharan Sangeetha Sridharan is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks -- *"Better Together: Unleashing the Synergy of Pandas, Polars, and Apache Arrow"* presented by Chris Brousseau Supercharge your data engineering workflows by merging the robustness of Pandas with the high-speed capabilities of Polars, all underpinned by Apache Arrow's in-memory technology. This technical deep-dive will unravel the nuances between Pandas and Polars, showcase their newest features, and demonstrate how to integrate them for optimal performance. Chris Brousseau is Founder of Surface Owl and a data science consultant focused on data engineering and NLP and visualizations. A native Vermonter, Chris is an avid skier, and has lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years. * **** Main talk ****** -- *"Mock It Till You Make It: How to Verify Your External Mocks Without Ever Leaving Unittest"* presented by Liz Acosta A controlled environment and consistent dependencies are crucial to writing good and ? most importantly ? relevant tests in Python. While the advent of APIs has made using external services so much more accessible, APIs can lead to flaky or deceptive tests, ultimately putting applications at risk. In this talk, you will learn how to use Python?s Mock object to create more reliable stand-ins for APIs beyond your control ? all within the unittest framework. Liz Acosta is a lover of plants, pugs, pizza, and Python. Liz's diverse professional experience and unconventional path to tech mean she brings a unique perspective to engineering. She is an advocate who seeks to empower developers from all aspects of life and learning. ---- /See you soon!/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chityala at gmail.com Wed Feb 28 14:42:50 2024 From: chityala at gmail.com (Ravi Chityala) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:42:50 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Live Online Data Science Course at the UC Berkeley extension Message-ID: Hello All, Dr. Sridevi Pudipeddi, a Lecturer in the Master's in Data Science Program at UC Berkeley main campus will be teaching 10-week long courses at the UC Berkeley extension. Her LinkedIn profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridevi-pudipeddi/ The details of the live online course are as follows: Title: Data Science Principles and Practice Using Python COMPSCI X433.1 Duration: 10 weeks meets on Tuesdays from 6-9 pm starts March 7th and ends May 9th Course link: https://extension.berkeley.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=49693169 UC Berkeley Extension is accredited by various bodies through UC Berkeley. Hence, many employers will reimburse the cost of the course. If you have any questions, reach out to Sri at sridevip at berkeley.edu Thanks, Ravi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: