PyCon Ireland 2015 Talks

Saturday 24th October

8:30am - 9:30am Registration & Breakfast
9:30am - 10:00am Goldsmith 1 + 2 Opening Ceremony
10:00am - 10:50am Goldsmith 1 + 2 Keynote - Come for the Language; Stay for the Community
10:50am - 1:00pm Swift Suite 1 + 2 Workshop - Creating add-ons for Blender
10:50am - 1:00pm Field Suite 1 + 2 Workshop - Data Vistualization with Bokeh and GGplot
11:10am - 12:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Redis, the new black
11:10am - 12:00pm Goldsmith 3 Test Driven Documentation
12:00pm - 1:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Python's Infamous GIL
12:00pm - 1:00pm Goldsmith 3 Using MongoDB and Python for data analysis pipelines (PyData)
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 5:00pm Swift Suite 1 + 2 Beginners Python Tutorial
2:00pm - 2:30pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Django Tales and how the Django community can change lives.
2:00pm - 2:30pm Goldsmith 3 Recruitment Session
2:00pm - 5:00pm Field Suite 1 + 2 Workshop: Introduction to Deep Learning (PyData)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Goldsmith 3 An introduction to machine learning on small scale datasets (PyData)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Decorators: Not that scary afterall
3:00pm - 3:30pm Goldsmith 3 Analysing user behaviour - from histograms to random forests (PyData)
3:00pm - 3:30pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 My Heart Will Stream On
3:30pm - 4:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 An introduction to GPU programming using Theano
3:30pm - 4:00pm Goldsmith 3 Spark Distributed Computing - A case for the Functional Model (PyData)
4:00pm - 4:30pm Break
4:30pm - 5:00pm Goldsmith 3 An exploration of Rugby Data using Python and Bayesian Statistics (PyData)
4:30pm - 5:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Exploring our Python Interpreter
5:00pm - 7:00pm Field Suite 1 + 2 Introduction to RDF with Python.
5:00pm - 5:30pm Goldsmith 3 Probabilistic programming with Lea (PyData)
5:00pm - 5:30pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Starting to Use the Jupyter Notebook
5:00pm - 7:00pm Swift Suite 1 + 2 Workshop - Modern optimization methods in Python
5:45pm - 7:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Lightning Talk Show
8:00pm - 11:59pm Entertainment in Against the Grain

Sunday 25th October

10:00am - 10:50am Goldsmith 1 + 2 Keynote: Creating safe learning experiences for all of our community members.
10:50am - 1:00pm Swift Suite 1 + 2 Workshop - building web application using python3.4/python3.5 (focused on coroutines and async stuff) using TDD
10:50am - 1:00pm Field Suite 1 + 2 Workshop - Using Open Data in your Applications
11:10am - 12:00pm Goldsmith 3 Increase response rate with predictive analytics (PyData)
11:10am - 12:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 What if those words don't mean what we think they mean?
12:00pm - 1:00pm Goldsmith 3 Python and I fish property (PyData)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Turning what you wanted into what you got, Behaviour Driven Design through Python mini-workshop
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 2:30pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Build Infrastructure: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How to Use Python to Fuel It
2:00pm - 5:30pm Swift Suite 1 + 2 Dive into object-oriented Python
2:00pm - 2:30pm Goldsmith 3 Getting Data Science models into Production (PyData)
2:00pm - 5:00pm Field Suite 1 + 2 Workshop - SciKit Learn Machine Learning
2:30pm - 3:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Python & PostgreSQL, a Wonderful Wedding
2:30pm - 3:00pm Goldsmith 3 Using Python for data? (PyData)
3:00pm - 3:30pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Machine Learning: Python and the Power of Ensembles
3:00pm - 3:30pm Goldsmith 3 My 25 Year Love/Hate Relationship with Databases
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 12 years of Pylint - an overview of the most comprehensive static analysis tool for Python
4:00pm - 5:00pm Goldsmith 3 Using Python to access web service information to support machine learning. (PyData)
5:00pm - 5:30pm Goldsmith 1 + 2 Data analysis and visualisation in Python
5:00pm - 5:30pm Goldsmith 3 Mining the web, no experience required. (PyData)