Hi all,
I trust you are well! I'm cross-posting this here in case any members of
this list haven't received the announcements via Meetup.com.
This month the Melbourne Python User Group is trying something new - we're
combining with Python Adelaide, Sydney Python, Canberra PUG, and Perth
Django
Hi everyone!
We're going to cancel the next Python meetup (which was scheduled for
Monday 6th April) as a precaution against Covid-19.
We'll monitor the situation and keep you posted about future meetups.
We hope to see you again soon!
Stay well,
Ed
--
Dr. Edward Schofield
Python
* to organise complex
data to develop interactive dashboards that allow visualisation of weather
and cancer data sets.
*2. Ed Schofield: Linear regression in Python*
Linear regression is the simplest and most foundational machine learning
technique. It is more powerful than people often assume
Hi everyone!
We're looking forward to our first meeting for 2020 of the Melbourne Python
user group tonight, Monday 3rd February. Do come and join us! We have these
three talks planned:
*1. David Andersson: Recent developments in OpenAlchemy*
David will give an update on recent developments in
he has used to navigate
automatically through 20+ clients' WordPress sites and gather their PHP
version, WordPress version, plugin versions, whether there are plugin
updates outstanding.
*2. Ed Schofield: First look at TensorFlow Probability* (~25 minutes)
I will give a brief introduction
Hi all!
We're looking forward to the next meeting of the Melbourne Python user
group next
week, on Monday 4th November. Do come and join us! We have these two talks
planned:
*1. David Andersson: Reduce API Code Duplication with OpenAPI and
SQLAlchemy* (~30 minutes)
In this talk David will
Hi everyone!
We're looking forward to our next meeting of the Melbourne Python user
group tonight, Monday 7th October. Do come and join us! We have these two
talks planned:
*1. Juan Nunez-Iglesias: napari: a fast, n-dimensional image viewer in
Python* (~25 minutes)
Juan is a developer of
Hi everyone!
We're looking forward to the next meeting of the Melbourne Python user
group next week, on Monday 3rd June. We have these two talks planned:
*1. Slava Razbash: How to foretell with Python and AutoML*
Slava will show you how AutoML can be used in a bank marketing use case.
with
Docker that follow on from his talk in February:
* Private repos
* Pipenv
* Non-root installs
*2. Ed Schofield: Top usability bugs in Python and its packages*
Python and its ecosystem of packages have been improving steadily for
decade and are generally high-quality. Here I'll give
Hi all!
I have been asked to post the following job ad:
The Bureau of Meteorology is looking for a talented scientific programmer
> using Python for their water forecasting services:
> The Bureau of Meteorology, Australia; AU$95,800 to AU$107,909 per annum,
> plus an additional 15.4%
here in Australia. The primary scripting environment for
QGIS is Python 3. This is a quick walkthrough of QGIS and how to script it with
Python for spatial analysis and automatic map generation.
2. Ed Schofield: Girls in Tech
Python Charmers has recently formed a partnership with Girls in Tech
Hi all!
A reminder that we'll have our next meeting of the Melbourne Python user
group on Monday 17th December (not tonight).
We have one confirmed talk and we're looking for one more. Please let me
know if you'd like to give a talk!
We are also looking for speakers for 2019! We'll revert to
Hi all!
A reminder that we'll have our next meeting of the Melbourne Python user
group tonight, Thursday 15th November. We've got these two talks planned:
*1. Janis Lesinskis: How CPython manages internal memory*
Janis will give an overview of how Python objects end up represented in
memory.
Hi all!
Due to the Cup Day long weekend, we have rescheduled our next meeting of
the Melbourne Python user group to Thursday 15th November. We've got these
two talks planned:
*1. Janis Lesinskis: How CPython managers internal memory*
*2. Nathan Faggian: Google Cloud ML*
More details to follow!
end to end; from downloading of the data to
data modelling, analysis and ultimately visualisation.
Also, this shorter talk:
*2. Ed Schofield: **Handling physical quantities and units with Python* (~15
minutes)
Following on from Peter's talk, I will give an overview of the why and how
of Python
Hi all!
Do come and join us for the next meetup of the Melbourne Python user group
on Monday evening. We've got two great talks planned:
*1. Damien George, Nick Moore, Matt Trentini: A Taste of MicroPython* (~30
minutes)
Python can be used for a vast range of tasks like web development, data
practical
guidance on productively
using Python to work with OpenID Connect.
*2. Ed Schofield: Pandas -- under the fur * (~20 minutes)
I will talk about some advanced topics in Pandas such as:
- performance: which operations are slow and what to do about it
- internals: views and copies
Hi all!
We're looking forward to our next Python meetup on Monday evening. We have
a great line-up of talks planned:
*1. Rory Hart: Just Enough OpenID Connect* (~25 minutes)
Many of us encounter authentication protocols as a side effect of just
trying to get things done. The simple task of
ain in this talk why he thinks the
Admin is magnificent.
*3. Ed Schofield: What's New in Python *(15 minutes)
I'll give a brief run-down of new developments in the Python ecosystem in
recent months.
*4. Announcements and pizza*
*When:* 5.45pm for mingling; talks from 6pm to ~7.15pm, pizza after
wrangling,
accessing web APIs, parsing JSON data, and manipulating it with Pandas. He
will demonstrate this by accessing the New York Times API.
*3. Ed Schofield: AlphaZero - background, how it works, and a general
Python implementation *(20 minutes)
AlphaZero is a major recent advance in self-play
n servers.
*3. Ed Schofield: Data classes: what, when, why?* (15 minutes)
Data classes will be a new feature of the Python 3.7 standard library that
offers types similar to a mutable namedtuple with defaults. They promise to
reduce the need for boilerplate code for classes which store multiple
pro
Hi Javier,
I'd like to present on Batavia for the December session of MPUG.
> Batavia is a Python VM implementation in JavaScript, part of the Pybeeware
> mission of pythoning all the things.
Thanks for the offer. This sounds great! I've written it up on the wiki.
How long would you like to
y in the last 1-2 years. Fred attended PyCon Israel this year and was
surprised at how large the community there is now. He will talk about the
event, Python uptake in general, and give highlights from the event.
3. Ed Schofield: publishing with Python (25-30 minutes)
Python has long had Sphinx
there is now. He will talk about the
event, Python uptake in general, and give highlights from the event.
2. Ed Schofield: publishing with Python (40 minutes)
Python has long had Sphinx for generating high-quality technical documentation
from reStructuredText (ReST). Many projects have more
Hi everyone!
We are looking forward to the October meeting of the Melbourne Python users
group on Monday 2 October. We have some more interesting talks planned:
1. Renaldi Gondosubroto: Moving Ahead with Internet of Things Developments in
Python (30 minutes)
Renaldi will discuss the past and
Hi everyone!
Our next meeting of the Melbourne Python users group will be on Monday 4
September. We have two great talks planned:
1. Linus Chang: Updates on ScramFS (45 minutes)
Linus will share his team's experiences building "the world's most advanced
cryptographic file system, built in
Hi everyone!
This evening we'll be holding a special PyCon edition of the Melbourne Python
user's group.
We have a new venue for this meeting and the rest of 2017:
Where:
Outcome-Hub Co-Working Space
Suite 1, 121 Cardigan Street, Carlton
When: 5.45pm for mingling; talks starting at 6pm
What:
starting at 6pm
What:
1. Christian Azuero: The world of robots and the Robot Operating System.
Covering many topics such as artificial intelligence, computer vision,
navigation, gestures, text-to-speech and speech recognition.
2. Ed Schofield: An introduction to Bayesian inference in Python for data
<http://pythoncharmers.com/>
> On 2 Apr 2017, at 8:52 pm, Ed Schofield <e...@pythoncharmers.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> Tomorrow is the April instalment of the Melbourne Python User Group. We have
> two interesting talks lined up:
>
> What:
> - Martin Schweitzer:
Hi all!
If any of you are interested in moving to Sydney (temporarily?), Cisco looking
for a Python programmer (see below) to "automate various things with Python
scripts" and ideally "kick-start a couple of projects involving machine
learning".
If you're interested, please contact Kabeer
Hi everyone,
Our main speaker for the May meeting has had to cancel because of a medical
operation. It's probably too late to organise a replacement, so I propose we
cancel tomorrow's meeting.
This is actually good news because you'll have more time to write a proposal
for PyCon AU! :)
We'll
Hi everyone!
Tomorrow is the April instalment of the Melbourne Python User Group. We have
two interesting talks lined up:
What:
- Martin Schweitzer: "Finding Currajong with Python": a comparison of
algorithms for partial string-matching (30 minutes)
- Jodie Burchell: Playing with VADER, a
Hi everyone!
We're looking forward to another great monthly Python meeting tomorrow!
When: 6pm on Monday 6 March
What:
- Jacqueline Nowak: Python Scripting in Fiji - or image processing for lazy
people
- Martin Schweitzer: Python for bioinformatics - and bioinformatics for
learning Python
-
Hi everyone!
We will have our next meeting of the Melbourne Python User Group next week, on
Monday 6 March. We are still looking for speakers for the event. If you would
like to give a talk on Monday evening (or a future meetup in 2017), please
email me or the mailing list!
Have you been
Hi everyone!
We are looking forward to the next Melbourne Python User Group meeting this
evening.
We'll have these presentations:
• Justin Barton: Introduction to Pandas
• Ed Schofield: What's New in Python 3.6
• Lightning talks: 2 x 5-minute slots
followed by general announcements and pizza
Hi everyone!
Here is an update and reminder about our next monthly Python meeting on Monday
evening.
We'll have three presentations:
• Linus Chang: The Scram encrypted filesystem in Python (including a demo of
real-time streaming video decryption) (30 mins)
• John Barham: Real-world tips
Hi everyone!
Good news :-) ... One of our cancelled speakers has now come back with a
generous offer to give his talk anyway (in slightly abbreviated form). Even
better, we now also have three other inspired souls who have volunteered to
give short talks (about 10-15 minutes each). So it
Hi all!
In the last 48 hours both of our confirmed speakers for Monday have asked to
cancel.
Does anyone have a talk they'd like to present on Monday (7 Nov), and save the
day?! There should be a good turnout according to the Meetup page numbers!
Cheers,
Ed
--
Dr. Edward Schofield
Python
Hi everyone!
We're looking forward to our next Python meeting on Monday 7th November.
(Please note that we've had to cancel the October meeting.)
When: 5.45pm for 6pm, Monday 7th November
Where: VLSCI Seminar Room, Ground Floor, 700 Swanston Street, Carlton
How to get there: Take a tram 5-10
of SciPy 2016 / PyCon AU: Juan Nunez-Iglesias (30 mins)
2. Creating custom styled reports from Jupyter notebooks: Ed Schofield (20 mins)
3. Open slot: email me or the list if you'd like to give a talk! (20 mins)
4. Lightning talks! (5 x 2 minutes)
As in July, we'll have space for a few lightning
is going to give an overview of the Python extension,
demos of some of its features (including linters, debuggers, and support
for virtual environments), and invite feedback on its future development.
2. Parallel computing with Dask: Ed Schofield
Dask is a lightweight pure-Python parallel
Hi everyone!
We're looking forward to another great monthly Python meeting this coming
Monday!
When: 5.45pm for 6pm on Monday 6th June
Where: Hub Melbourne, 673 Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD (near Southern Cross
station). Please enter via the side entrance on Godfrey Street. The meeting
will
Hi everyone!
The next Melbourne Python User Group meeting will be this evening (Monday 2
May) at VLSCI (Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative).
Here is the lineup of speakers:
- Alexey Kotlyarov: Behaviour-driven development in Python using Aloe (30
mins)
- Ed Schofield: What's New
Hi everyone!
The next Melbourne Python User Group meeting will be on Monday 29 February
at VLSCI (Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative). This will be our
March meeting brought forward by a week (due to venue availability,
pretending it's not a leap year).
Huge thanks to VLSCI for
Hi Juan and co!
Thanks for asking, but Inspire9 is generally too booked up to change dates at
short notice. We also have 60+ people registered for tonight, so changing it
would throw a spanner in the works for them.
Have fun at LCA! I hope to see you next time!
Everyone else: I look forward
Hi everyone!
We're going to hold the first Melbourne Python User Group meeting of 2016 on
Monday evening next week, 1 February.
Please note that the start time will be *6:00 for 6:15pm*. (There have been
some changes in the venue's policy that require that we not start setting up
until 6pm.)
Hi all,
I have been asked to post the following job ad for a short-term (8.5-month)
Python science-related contract:
"The Water Information Program of the Bureau of Meteorology is seeking a very
talented scientific Python programmer who is experienced with NumPy, Pandas,
and Matplotlib. This
Hi all,
Thanks for doing this roundup, Javier!
I'd like to volunteer to give this talk:
- Towards solving the Python 2/3 split with the `past` package
I'll explain how I've discovered that backwards compatibility is more important
than forwards compatibility and show you how it's possible to
Thanks for booking the venue at TeamSquare, Oli!
I'm on for the rehearsal evening on 27th July too. My talk will be for 30 mins
(including questions), on interactive visualisation. (I'll also have a flight
to catch that night, so I may not be able to stay for all the presentations,
depending
Hi everyone,
The Melbourne Python Users Group will be meeting again this evening from 6pm:
What?Melbourne Python Meetup
When?Monday 6th of July, from 6pm
Where? Inspire9, level 1, 41 Stewart Street, Richmond
The updated program is:
* Geoff Crompton: Testing ain't hard, even for
hard, even for SysAdmins
* Ed Schofield: An introduction to Julia (the language)
* ? if we can twist his arm: Tennessee Leeuwenburg: Applied Data Analysis
(PyCon talk run-through)
There's still plenty of scope for an extra talk, so if you've got something
you'd like to share, let us know
Hi Oli, hi all,
It seems there would be too many rehearsals for a single meeting later in July.
So I'm wondering who would be willing to give their PyCon rehearsal
presentation at the regular MPUG meeting on Monday 6th July at Inspire9. We
currently have only one talk confirmed for this.
We
Hi Geoff,
Thanks for the offer! We'd welcome your talk at the next meeting. I'll add you
to the wiki for 6th July!
Best wishes,
Ed
On 19 Jun 2015, at 16:20, Geoff Crompton geo...@trinity.unimelb.edu.au
wrote:
Hi,
I’m preparing a talk for pycon-au. I was wondering if I could give
Good plan, Javier! Thanks for taking the initiative on this.
Count me in for a talk rehearsal too. Monday 27 July works well for me.
Cheers,
Ed
On 12 Jun 2015, at 8:16 am, Javier Candeira jav...@candeira.com wrote:
Last year I loved attending the Pycon talk rehearsal and critiquing
Hi Juan,
Thanks for offering to give a talk!
Regarding rescheduling, we'd need to check whether Inspire9 also has the 13th
free.
Another question is who's available to organise and chair the meeting in April.
I won't be here for April 6th or even April 13th if we were to reschedule it.
Would
30 people according to the Meetup site. Quite a few
new faces too.
The current program is:
- Ryan Verner: A Python-based workflow for capturing and publishing video from
conference talks
- Ed Schofield: What's New in Python
We have a slot available for another talk too. Would anyone like
Hi all,
Javier, thanks for raising this issue!
I think moving the meeting to 2nd or 3rd December would be the cleanest option.
I can't personally make either date, so my scheduled What's New talk would have
to be postponed to the next meeting in February. I was also going to host the
December
On 7 Sep 2014, at 10:27, Tennessee Leeuwenburg tleeuwenb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've just noticed that the November meeting is over the cup day weekend.
While I have no great fascination for horses, I do enjoy having the long
weekend free. I was wondering what people thought of
Hi everyone,
Python 3.4 is out! Here’s the What’s New page:
http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/3.4.html
In other breaking news, it looks likely that Python 3.5 will (finally) have a
dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication. PEP 465 has the details:
Hi everyone!
Is anyone interested in a scientific Python programming job? I have been asked
to post the job ad below. It looks like a good opportunity for the right
person. If you’re interested, please contact Daehyok Shin directly (details
below).
Cheers,
Ed
———
Scientific Python
Hi Bianca,
That sounds like a good project! As Tennessee says, try scikit-learn; it
supports Python 3 as of version 0.14.
You may have to build it from source though. It would be great if you could put
together a conda package or Debian package for it... :)
--
Dr. Edward Schofield
(M) +61
Hi all,
Nicole Harris has volunteered for the 5-minute slot. She'll be talking about
Mezzanine (the best Django CMS).
Cheers :)
Ed
--
Dr. Edward Schofield
(M) +61 (0)405 676 229
Python Charmers
http://pythoncharmers.com
On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 2:34 pm, Javier Candeira wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 October 2013 at 7:41 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Ed Schofield e...@pythoncharmers.com (mailto:e...@pythoncharmers.com)
writes:
Python Charmers is hosting a Python 3 porting sprint on Monday 28
October from 6pm to 9pm. Come and learn how to port code to Python 3
and get help
Hi Noon,
Can I give a talk? It would be on using PhoneGap to build an amazingly
trivial android application ...!
(Note: Contains exactly no python, but might be of interest anyway ...)
Yes, it'd be great to hear your talk on PhoneGap!
How long would it be for? We have about an hour of
On 08/02/2013, at 2:19 PM, Graeme Cross gcr...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On 07/01/2013, at 3:08 PM, Ed Schofield e...@pythoncharmers.com wrote:
And there's no rule that says we can't have more than one meeting per month
-- so a February meetup (e.g. 11th Feb) would be a good idea too
On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 10:27 PM, Ryan Kelly wrote:
There were no talks on the wiki yet, so I took the liberty of officially
adding Richard to do his message queuing talk.
If no more exciting material comes along, I will present a short demo of
what's new and exciting in the
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