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ANN: ChiPy at Room 1 Thu June 14, 5:19p


ChiPy
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When: 5:19 PM Thursday June 14, 2012
Where: Room 1

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Topics
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1. Open Government Data Movement 
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.
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2. Big Data De-Duping
Forest Gregg

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.
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3. The Python Open Data Summit Intro
Brian Ray

Brian will divulge details on why this will be the best meeting ever!
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4. Python powered search
Japhy Bartlett

Explore the  indexing / stemming / scoring libraries used to built a highly concise search engine along with redis and tornado.
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Location
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Room 1


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.