From brianhray at gmail.com Tue Jun 12 15:30:01 2012 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:30:01 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] [ANN] ChiPy *special* Monthly Meeting: Python Open Data Summit Message-ID: Chicago Python User Group ========================= Special Event: "Python Open Data Summit" Open you Python Interpreter; open your data; and open your minds -- this month's meeting is a convergence of all these things. Held at our sizable new venue 1871, we have plenty of room / food / drink for all of you and your friends. Friends of Python; Fans of Big Data; Observers of the Open Government Data Initiative, you will not want to miss this one. This will be our best meeting ever. ** Feel Free to Redistribute this information to anyone interested in Open Government Data in Chicago land area ** RSVP at http://chipy.org/ (please note you can also RSVP on OpenGovChicago meetup.com currently has 54, Chipy has 50 as of 8am Tuesday) Quick Links: YES http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/49/yes MAYBE http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/49/maybe When ---- Thursday June 14th, 2012 at 7PM Where ----- "1871" The Merchandise Mart 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza 12th Floor Chicago, IL, 60654 Directions to The Mart: http://www.mmart.com/merchmart/index.cfm/plan-your-visit/directions/ Directions once you're in the building: Walk to any center bank of elevators, take to the 12 floor. Walk to West end of the building. Topics --------------- Open Government Data Movement (:30 Thirty Minutes) By: Paul Baker The history and goals of the open government data movement nationally and in Chicago, previous commercial uses of open data, such as weather data, and a couple of contemporary examples of how cities and independent groups are using open data. Big Data De-Duping (:45 Forty-Five Minutes) By: Forest Gregg, Derek Eder Derek Eder of Webitects and Forest Gregg, a Ph.D. student of sociology at the U of C, will describe the Python library they are developing to deduplicate tabular data, quickly, accurately, and at a large scale. The library facilitates the matching of related records in different data sets, using a machine learning approach. They expect to have a demo to show and will explain how they expect that the library will be used. Python powered search Python Powered Search Engine By: Japhy Bartlett (:20 Twenty Minutes) Explore the indexing / stemming / scoring libraries used to built a highly concise search engine along with redis and tornado. About ChiPy ----------- ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers. Participants range from absolute beginners to seasoned veterans. In short, *everyone* is welcome (including you)! Every second Thursday of the month ChiPy members gather to give talks on a wide variety of topics related to Python and related technology. Our community benefits from a variety of participants, so we would love it if you would make yourself a participant! ChiPy website: http://chipy.org ChiPy Mailing List: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chipy-announce Python website: http://python.org -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717