From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Wed Sep 6 22:36:23 2017 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 21:36:23 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChiPy: Sept 14th Meeting Call for Speakers Message-ID: Hey ChiPy, We are still looking for speakers for our September 14th meeting. If you have any interesting Python topics you'd like speak about, please submit a talk! Also, if you'd like to give a 5-10 min "Module of the Month" talk, covering a useful Python module or feature, please also submit your topic. You can submit your topic here, or email me if you have any questions: http://www.chipy.org/meetings/topics/propose/ If you'd like to attend the next meeting, you can rsvp at chipy.org or via our Meetup group. -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joe.jasinski at gmail.com Tue Sep 12 20:38:23 2017 From: joe.jasinski at gmail.com (Joe Jasinski) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:38:23 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChiPy September 2017 Meeting Message-ID: Hey ChiPy, It's time for the September ChiPy main meeting. There are some interesting talks planned, so don't miss it! Hope to see you there. *When:*Thursday Sept. 14 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:* Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLC Two North LaSalle St Suite 1700 Chicago, IL 60602 *What:* - *Anaconda: The Best of Everything in PyData* By: Patrick Boland Experience Level: Intermediate A continued narrative of the tale of two snakes. In this talk, we will discuss some of the most impressive features of Anaconda, including built in binaries, command line interface, the history of the distribution, and why it is the right choice for just about every Python stack. This talk does not assume audience familiarity with the distribution. We will take advantage of the *better* batteries included nature of this distribution to step through beginner and intermediate concepts. I intend for the audience to feel comfortable and excited to give this a try on their own. - *Storm surge: hurricane flooding simulation using Python, Fortran, and GeoClaw* By: Marc Kjerland The 2017 hurricane season is proving to be one of the strongest in history, and predictive modeling plays an important role in evacuation and mitigation planning. Coastal communities in the path of hurricanes face several major hazards - strong winds, heavy rainfall, relentless waves, and storm surge. Storm surge is a type of transient sea level rise where water is forced towards the shore by winds, and the right conditions can produce very high levels - Hurricane Harvey raised Galveston Bay by upwards of ten feet, and in 2012 Hurricane Sandy produced 12-foot surge in Lower Manhattan. I'll discuss the current state of storm surge modeling with focus on an open-source package called GeoClaw, developed by academic researchers across the U.S. GeoClaw uses Python and Fortran to run a dynamic simulation of coastal flooding using storm and topography datasets, and thanks to some novel dimensionality reduction it can be run on a laptop. - *Getting Off the Struggle Bus: Learning From Transit Data* By: Spencer Chan Experience Level: Novice In an extended version of the lightning talk I gave for the spring ChiPy mentorship final presentations, I will go into more depth about how I collected and processed bus location data from the CTA's bus tracker API. I will also discuss interesting discoveries I made once I plotted the data, work I have done on the project since completing the mentorship (collecting data from 30 additional bus routes, converting visualizations from Bokeh/Python to D3.js, analyzing and visualizing bus bunching, etc), as well as future plans for the project. Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsor: Metis. Also thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Signature Consultants, and Telnyx. Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: