From daniel.galtieri at gmail.com Mon Aug 1 14:16:08 2016 From: daniel.galtieri at gmail.com (Daniel Galtieri) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:16:08 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Scientific SIG Call for August 17th Speakers Message-ID: Hi All, Scientific SIG is back! Trunk Club has graciously offered to host the next Scientific SIG on August 17th, from 6-8pm. Scott Cronin will be giving a talk on the data science going on at Trunk Club, but we still need to fill out the agenda for the rest of the evening. We're looking for speakers on anything within the broadly defined scope of "scientific python." Talks can be any length ranging from a brief 5-10min "lighting talk" up to a full 30-minute talk. As is always emphasized, you do not need to be an expert to give a talk. The atmosphere is very casual, so if you have something you're interested in presenting please don't hesitate due to inexperience. If interested, feel free to either respond to this email or contact me ( daniel.galtieri at gmail.com) Thanks, Dan Galtieri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidkunio at gmail.com Wed Aug 3 01:33:24 2016 From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura) Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 05:33:24 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Finance SIG - Hackathon - Prizes Message-ID: Hi, If you were thinking about coming this Saturday but were on the fence, let me sweeten the deal. We have some prizes. Getting a foot in the door with a hedge fund can be hard. To the winner Akuna Capital has offered an interview for a Quant Dev or Quant Trader . Getting an offer takes more than writing a good algo on Saturday, but it's a great start. To the first and second place winnters Quantopian is offering tickets to an upcoming workshop in Chicago. The workshops give you access to experts in algorithmic trading and the Quantopian platform. https://www.quantopian.com/workshops https://www.quantopian.com/posts/nyc-quantopian-workshop-on-february-28th Thanks to Akuna Capital and Quantopian. This just got interesting! David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com Wed Aug 3 10:38:32 2016 From: mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com (Michael Tamillow) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:38:32 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Finance SIG - Hackathon - Prizes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey David, What time is the hackathon going until? Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 3, 2016, at 12:33 AM, David Matsumura wrote: > > Hi, > > If you were thinking about coming this Saturday but were on the fence, let me sweeten the deal. We have some prizes. > > Getting a foot in the door with a hedge fund can be hard. To the winner Akuna Capital has offered an interview for a Quant Dev or Quant Trader. Getting an offer takes more than writing a good algo on Saturday, but it's a great start. > > To the first and second place winnters Quantopian is offering tickets to an upcoming workshop in Chicago. The workshops give you access to experts in algorithmic trading and the Quantopian platform. > > https://www.quantopian.com/workshops > https://www.quantopian.com/posts/nyc-quantopian-workshop-on-february-28th > > Thanks to Akuna Capital and Quantopian. > > This just got interesting! > > David > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidkunio at gmail.com Wed Aug 3 10:45:50 2016 From: davidkunio at gmail.com (David Matsumura) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:45:50 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Finance SIG - Hackathon - Prizes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The event will go from 9AM until 6PM. Most of that time will be used for developing you algorithm and/or collaborating with your group. You don't have to be there all day, but will need to be there for the last few hours if you want to submit your algorithm to win a prize. I'll update the meetup page with more details on the agenda. Thanks David -- David Matsumura 773.230.1761 On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Michael Tamillow wrote: _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list Chicago at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From thomas.j.johnson at gmail.com Sun Aug 7 11:44:36 2016 From: thomas.j.johnson at gmail.com (Thomas Johnson) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:44:36 +0000 Subject: [Chicago] Scientific SIG Call for August 17th Speakers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Dan, If you still have openings, I'd like to come and speak about a chatbot I'm developing with Python using NLP technologies, particularly word2vec. It would probably be just a short talk, but we can go over word2vec embeddings and Word Mover Distance ( http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37/kusnerb15.pdf) Thanks Tom On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:45 PM Daniel Galtieri wrote: > Hi All, > > Scientific SIG is back! Trunk Club has > graciously offered to host the next Scientific SIG on August 17th, from > 6-8pm. > > Scott Cronin will be giving a talk on the data science going on at Trunk > Club, but we still need to fill out the agenda for the rest of the evening. > We're looking for speakers on anything within the broadly defined scope of > "scientific python." Talks can be any length ranging from a brief 5-10min > "lighting talk" up to a full 30-minute talk. > > As is always emphasized, you do not need to be an expert to give a talk. > The atmosphere is very casual, so if you have something you're interested > in presenting please don't hesitate due to inexperience. > > If interested, feel free to either respond to this email or contact me ( > daniel.galtieri at gmail.com) > > > Thanks, > > Dan Galtieri > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Wed Aug 10 20:34:26 2016 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:34:26 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy August 2016 Meeting Message-ID: ChiPy, Tomorrow we have a very special ChiPy meeting planned. The Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship (dssg.uchicago.edu) will again be hosting us and will present their Python-based projects. Join us at 6:00pm to hang out, network, and eat. All are welcome! Please RSVP soon. Please provide your full name in the RSVP for the security check at the door. *When:* Thursday August 11th 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:* Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship 14 E Jackson Suite 1700, Chicago, IL *What:* - Expanding Our Early Intervention System for Adverse Police Interactions by Jimmy Jin, Maria Kamenetsky, Dean Magee - Predictive Enforcement of Hazardous Waste Violations by Sumedh Joshi, Jonathan Keane, Joshua Mausolf, Lin Taylor Thanks always to all our Platinum sponsors, especially: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, and Telnyx. Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ See you there! -- Joe J. 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Each talk is a 7 minute lightning talk and you'll get to learn about WebDev, DataScience and a lot of Python! *Where:* Braintree 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza Suite 800 *When:* Thursday, August 18, 2016 6:00 PM *Talks:* castaglance at corn: Predicting corn prices by Patrick Boland Phonemenal: Sounding the Depths of Language by David Michaels Predicting severity of Amnesty International action alerts by Anjali Deolapure Knowtrients: Using Django to build a micronutrient tracking system by Jordan Dietch BrewpubFinder: a brewpub location and review system built with Django REST Framework by Patrick O'Laughlin Data check editor: Using Django to build a website to manage data check configuration on financial data by Feiyang Liu *How:* Please register via the meeting link below https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/232824941/ *More Info here:*https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/232824941/ -- Joe J. 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During this shadow experience you?ll get exposed to a ton of real world skills and tools to jump start your development career.* On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:23 AM Joe Jasinski wrote: > Come join us at Braintree to learn about Mentorship Program that Chicago > Python User Group has been running for more than 2 years. This evening we > will have the successful graduates of the mentorship program tell us what > projects they worked on and what they learned in the process. Each talk is > a 7 minute lightning talk and you'll get to learn about WebDev, DataScience > and a lot of Python! > > *Where:* > Braintree > 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza > Suite 800 > > *When:* > Thursday, August 18, 2016 > 6:00 PM > > *Talks:* > castaglance at corn: Predicting corn prices by Patrick Boland > Phonemenal: Sounding the Depths of Language by David Michaels > Predicting severity of Amnesty International action alerts by Anjali > Deolapure > Knowtrients: Using Django to build a micronutrient tracking system by > Jordan Dietch > BrewpubFinder: a brewpub location and review system built with Django REST > Framework by Patrick O'Laughlin > Data check editor: Using Django to build a website to manage data check > configuration on financial data by Feiyang Liu > > *How:* > Please register via the meeting link below > https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/232824941/ > > > *More Info here:*https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/232824941/ > > > -- > Joe J. 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We have been organizing the program for the past 2 years and have helped a number of new developers get on board. Some of the mentees were able to find new jobs by showcasing what they did during their mentorship. Its completely free and volunteer driven. All you need to know is listed here: http://www.chipy.org/pages/sigs/mentorship/ We cap the number applicants accepted at the number of mentors who sign up every season. So if you are interested to share the joys of programming and building cool things - please consider signing up as a mentor. The above page will give you all the details you need to know. And yes - we do have prizes for those who finish. This season the first prize was David Beazley?s Python Live lesson from Pearson. Runners up will get to spend one day at Braintree Payment and learn about building world class software. Over to you Ray! P.S. 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We?re a fast-growing company producing two products changing the rules with expectations of privacy in cloud services: our ONE/Groups file backup/sync product, and Semaphor, our fully private team collaboration app. Our QA acceptance stack is built in SikuliX (http://www.sikulix.com) which uses Jython to power its scripting. Experience in either of these, or UI automation in general, is greatly preferred but not a hard requirement. We?re looking for a driven, fast-learning junior developer eager to grow with the organization to take lead on expanding on and building up our existing test suites. Your GitHub (or ChiPy mentorship!) is just as important to us, if not more so, than your resume or GPA. What do we have to offer? SpiderOak?s engineering team is all-remote. I?m in Chicago along with two others, but our CEO and business team are out of Kansas City, the head of QA you?ll be working under is in Urbana, IL, and we have engineers in Australia, Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, and all across the USA. Along with salary, our benefits package includes insurance, annual stock option grants after six months, and generous vacation time. If you?re interested, you can see our job announcement at https://spideroak.com/articles/qa-python-engineer. Thanks, and looking forward to hearing from you! --Matt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I was lucky enough to speak about the technology behind our chatbot at the Chipy Scientific SIG a couple weeks ago. Now we're on Product Hunt, so please show some love! Check us out at https://www.producthunt.com/tech/leadaxe-by-executioner - if you like us, you know what to do :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tanya at tickel.net Sun Aug 28 20:33:30 2016 From: tanya at tickel.net (Tanya Schlusser) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:33:30 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] PyDataChi Message-ID: Too bad I receive these on digest -- it would have been really nice to hang out, Robin! I think I saw a couple of ChiPy T-shirts. It was a great conference! Next time we'll have to coordinate beforehand. I hope they do decide to have another one. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Finally, if there is any help or questions that anyone has with relation to PyData/NumFOCUS, do let me know and I?ll do my best to get your questions answered and concerns addressed! Thanks, Safia On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:33 PM Tanya Schlusser < mailto:Tanya Schlusser > wrote: a, pre, code, a:link, body { word-wrap: break-word !important; } Too bad I receive these on digest -- it would have been really nice to hang out, Robin! I think I saw a couple of ChiPy T-shirts. It was a great conference! Next time we'll have to coordinate beforehand. I hope they do decide to have another one. _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list mailto:Chicago at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: