[CentralOH] March Monthly Meetup ONLINE Tonight!

[Greg Back]

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the late notice, but this month's evening meetup WILL be 
happening, and will be ONLINE, using Zoom! If you didn't already get the 
notification from Meetup.com, the details are here: 
https://www.meetup.com/Central-Ohio-Python-Users-Group/events/269747480/, 
on http://www.cohpy.org/, and included below.

Hope to see you (virtually) there,

Greg

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Guy Royse will be talking about "Understanding Probabilistic Data 
Structures with 112,092 UFO Sightings"

Guy likes weird stuff—UFOs, Bigfoot, peanut butter and bologna on 
toast—maybe you do too? As far as the third bullet point, well, that’s 
how many sightings he has.

Now, if you’re like most developers, you probably have no idea what 
probabilistic data structures are. In fact, Guy did a super-scientific 
poll on Twitter and found that out of 119 participants, 58% had never 
heard of them and 22% had heard the term but nothing more. He wondered 
what percentage of that 22% heard the term for the first time in the 
poll. We’re a literal-minded lot at times.

In this talk, we’ll briefly go over some common probabilistic data 
structures; dive deep into a couple (Bloom Filter, MinHash, and Top-K); 
and show a running application that makes use of Top-K to analyze the 
most commonly used words in all 112,092 of his UFO sightings.

When we’re done, you’ll be ready to start using some of these structures 
in your own applications. And, if you use the UFO data, maybe you’ll 
discover that the truth really is out there.

This group is only as good as its inputs. Please consider helping out.

6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat and drink (your own food and beverages)

6:30 p.m.: Announcements followed by Presentation

8:00 p.m.: Hard Stop for Presentation (might hang around for more 
socializing)

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