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ANN: ChiPy at Dev Bootcamp Thu January 9, 7:14p


ChiPy
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When: 7:14 PM Thursday January 9, 2014
Where: Dev Bootcamp

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Topics
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1. Lexical Graphs with Natural Language Processing using NLTK
Brian Ray

Brian will talk about his experiences using Python and NLTK http://nltk.org/ to run language comparisons to generate lexical difference graphs like the one mentioned in the "Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe" article. http://bit.ly/1cS46Ba

The focus will be on the NLTK and how its internals work to process a language. This talk will be his best one ever.
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2554/lexical-graphs-with-natural-language-processing-u 
2. There were 986 roadway fatalities in Illinois in 2013. Where's the data?
Nick Bennett

Seen on garish LED roadway signs all around Chicago on New Year's Eve, 2013: 986 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 2013. It leads to many questions: On what roads? When did the accidents happen? What do we do now? I'm scared to drive. I will talk about purging my fears by finding the data to answer some of those questions. http://tothebeat.github.io/fatal-car-crashes/ This talk will involve PythonAnywhere, IPython, a module that's not even on PyPi (dbfpy), searching for and finding open government data, CartoDB, Google Fusion Tables, csv, and maybe Pandas. Rest assured, there will be no graphic photos. 
 recording release: yes license: CC BY  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2556/there-were-986-roadway-fatalities-in-illinois-in 
3. Garbage Collection w/ Ref. Cycles
Aaron Brady

Reference counting is very useful but it has an odd problem.  We employ a technique from graphs to approach it.  The solution works but it's a bit slow.
 recording release: yes license: CC BY-NC  
 Video: http://pyvideo.org/video/2555/garbage-collection-w-ref-cycles 


Location
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Dev Bootcamp


About the group
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https://www.chipy.org

Chicago Python User Group known as ChiPy was founded in 2003. We are an active user group organized around the Python.programming language.   Our meetings are open to all of all proficiency and experience levels.