October 2018 Meetup
Date: November 1, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive, #07-01
(map).
Signup: meetup
page
We couldn't find a good day in the last week of October, so our October 2018 Meetup actually took place on November 1st ;)
Talk 1: "Performance Improvements with Cython" by Kaivalya Rawal
Programming languages have various technical variations: compiled vs interpreted, statically typed vs dynamically typed, object-oriented vs functional, and so on. However, languages also vary by speed of execution, learning curves, syntax rules, and ease of use. Python does very well on the latter three accounts, and has thus seen spectacular growth in popularity. However execution speed, especially relative to lower level languages, often leaves something more to be desired. In this talk, we'll explore how to bridge this divide using static typing to improve speed, while retaining all the goodness and familiarity of Python.
Kaivalya is a computer science undergraduate from India, currently working as a research assistant at NTU. He spent the summer learning and optimising PracMLN - an open source Markov Logic Networks library, using Cython. His work has currently taken him into data modeling and network analysis, but he loves all things Python.
Video recording
Github repo
Talk 2: "30 Things in Python" by Yi Sheng Siow
Python can do a lot of things. Yi Sheng introduces 30 different things we can use the beautiful language for. From creating presentations to writing blogs to creating chatbots to doing deep learning, relearn the magic of Python with this talk. Demos and actual code for the demos will be shown and briefly explained. Resources for the demos will be shared after the talk.
Yi Sheng SIOW has experience working in numbers, web development and data analytics. He is trained in Accountancy and enjoys writing nice code.
Video recording
Github repo
March 2018 Meetup - Open House Event at Shopee
Date: March 27, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Shopee, 2 Science Park Drive #03-01 Tower A, Ascent Singapore
(map).
Signup: meetup
page
Agenda
This month, Shopee Singapore would like to invite the local Python community to
an open house event at the Shopee Cafeteria.
We will feature a panel discussion with …
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February 2018 meetup
Date: February 28, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive, #07-01
(map).
Signup: meetup
page
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
7:30pm: How being a sore loser at board games helped an amateur coder write
his first 1,000 line project by Yi Sheng Siow
Asymmetric board games, where players …
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November 2017 meetup
Date: November 27, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Skyscanner, 39 Robinson Road, #08-01 Robinson Point, 068911
(map).
Signup: meetup
page
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
7:30pm: Introduction to Type Hints by Björn Andersson
Björn has recently learned about Type Hints (see
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/) and discovered that …
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October 2017 meetup
Date: October 25, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive Haw Par Technocentre, #07-01
(map).
Signup: meetup
page
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
7:30pm: NLTK and Friends by Liling Tan
The talk will be a basic crash course to Natural Language Processing (NLP). We
will try to build a …
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Notification of PUGS AGM 2017
Dear PUGS members,
We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, October 31 from 7 to
9pm at Red Hat Singapore office (8 Shenton Way, 11-01 AXA Tower, Singapore
068811, map)
This is an election year. We will select and vote among those present at the AGM
on …
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September 2017 meetup
Date: September 26, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Carousell, Keppel Tower 2, Tanjong Pagar Road
Signup: meetup page
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
7:30pm: Talk #1: Using Kivy to Write an iOS and Android App by Chao-Jen Chen
Abstract:
Kivy is an open source Python framework that allows developers to write …
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August 2017 meetup
Date: August 29, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Singapore Power, Keppel Tower 2 #08-00, Tanjong Pagar Road
Signup: meetup page.
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
7:30pm: Talk #1: Predicting Singapore House price and rents with linear regression and neural network using URA property transaction data by Vikrant Rathore
(video)
Abstract:
I …
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July 2017 meetup
Date: July 6, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive Haw Par Technocentre, #07-01
(map)
Signup: meetup page.
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
While everyone arrives, we have the chance to chat and mingle, Zendesk is kindly
sponsoring snacks and soft-drinks.
7:30pm: Talk #1: Deep Learning with Python in …
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May 2017 meetup
It's Slack time
We now have a slack channel open to everybody. You can join at
https://pugs-org-sg-slackin.now.sh/.
May meetup
The next PUGS meetup is planned for May 31, from 7 to 9pm at
Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive Haw Par Technocentre, #07-01
(map).
RSVP at the meetup page …
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March 2017 meetup
The next PUGS meetup is planned for March 29, from 7 to 9pm at the new
Pivotal office (140 Robinson Rd, Singapore 068907, #16-00,
map).
(Note: Please have an ID with you for building security check).
RSVP at the meetup page (and please unRSVP if you can't make it).
Talk …
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February 2017 meetup
The next PUGS meetup is planned for February 22, from 7 to 9pm at the new
Carousell office (Carousell@Keppel Towers
2,
240 Tanjong Pagar Road #12-00, 088540).
RSVP on the meetup page.
Talk
(slides, video)
Lua for Python developers.
Abstract: In this introduction to Lua I'll demonstrate the essentials …
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Notification of PUGS AGM 2016
Dear PUGS members,
We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, October 25 from 7 to
9pm at Red Hat Singapore office (8 Shenton Way, 10-01 AXA Tower, Singapore
068811,
map)
Agenda:
- Presentation of Financial Accounts
- PyCon-APAC 2017 in Kuala Lumpur
- Activities for 2017
- Open discussion
Please join …
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July 2016 meetup
[postfactum]
Talk
Hear no evil, see no evil, patch no evil: Or, how to monkey-patch safely.
By Graham Dumpleton
Abstract:
Python is a dynamic programming language and has a strong tradition of adhering
to a programming style called duck-typing. This means that it is possible to
easily modify an application's …
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Thank You for Attending PyCon SG 2016
The organizing committee would like to thank everyone for coming to PyCon
Singapore 2016. This year we had over 250 participants! This conference is only
possible because of your interest! Here are some
photos of the
conference. And if you’ve missed a talk in a parallel session, you may …
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May 2016 meetups
PyData meetup happened on May 10. The topic was "Using Luigi and Scikit-Learn to
create a Machine Learning Pipeline which trains a model and predict through a Rest API" by Atreya Biswas
(meetup page,
video).
PUGS meeting is on May 25th at Carousell,
71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #03-14 Singapore 139951 …
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Early bird registration for PyConSG 2016 is open
Join us for our 4th annual Python conference, organized by
the Python User Group Singapore: by the community, for the community.
Early bird registration is open now!
This year our keynote speakers are Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch, Audrey Roy Greenfeld
and Daniel Roy Greenfeld.
The NUS School of Computing is …
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Apr 2016 meetups
April PyData meetup is on April 12. The topic is Sentiment Analysis using
Stanford's CoreNLP.
PUGS meeting is on April 18th at PayPal
(5 Temasek Blvd, #09-01 Suntec Tower Five, 038985, Singapore). RSVP here.
Big thanks to PayPal for the venue, pizzas and drinks!
Talks
-
Reinforcement learning using Python by …
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Mar 2016 meetup
Incredible turnout at yesterday's meetup.
Some pictures are here.
Big thanks to Red Hat Singapore for hosting us.
Another big thanks to semi-anonymous pizza sponsors.
Talks
-
Sayanee went through some cool stats from
https://data.webuild.sg/ showing how vibrant and diverse Singapore's
developers scene is.
-
Ivan's TDD with pytest …
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Call for proposals for PyConSG 2016
PyCon Singapore 2016 is happening again! Mark your calendars
for June 23 to 25.
Once again we've got the support of great keynote speakers:
We also have some …
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Nov 2015 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on the 27th of November from 7pm to 9pm at the
PayPal office (5 Temasek Blvd, Suntec Tower Five, Level 7, 038985, map).
RSVP at the meetup page.
Agenda:
- Introduce the new PUGS committee members and a word of appreciation for the
old exco …
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Notification of PUGS AGM 2015
Dear PUGS members,
We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on the 28th October 2015.
You are cordially invited to take part in our elections or to volunteer for a
spot on the committee!
Date/time: 28th October 2015 19:00
Venue: Paypal Office 5 Temasek Blvd, Suntec Tower …
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Thank You for Attending PyCon SG 2015
On behalf of all the PyCon organizing committee members, I would like to thank
everyone for their support for PyCon Singapore 2015 which was held
at Singapore Polytechnic from 17th June to 19th June.
This marks the 6th conference to be organized by the Python User Group
Community in Singapore …
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Apr 2015 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on the 30th of April from 7pm to 9pm at the
hackerspace.sg.
Talks
- "How I built a SFTP service using Paramiko" by Steve (slides on github, video).
- "Python tips: Packing and Unpacking" by Shubham (notebook, video)
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Mar 2015 meetup
Another month, another meetup!
This time it'll be on the 26th of March at the ThoughtWorks' office.
Venue: 87B Amoy Street #03/04, Singapore 069906, Singapore
If you want to attend then please sign up on our meetup
page, as there is limited space please only mark yourself as
attending …
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Call for proposals for PyConSG 2015
The organizing committee for PyCon Singapore 2015 would like to invite members
of the global Python community to submit talk proposals and tutorial proposals
for our conference happening at the Singapore Polytechnic
from 17-19 June 2015.
Once again we've got the support of great keynote speakers:
- Andrew Godwin (Django core …
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Feb 2015 meetup
Next regular user meeting is scheduled for February 26 at 7pm at PayPal
Singapore (UPDATE: at Millenia Office), 1 Temasek
Avenue, Millenia Tower, #14-01. Our friendly hosts have graciously offered to
provide pizzas and drinks!
Speakers:
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Jan 2015 events
First PyData SG meetup will
happen on January 15, 2015 from 7 to 9:30pm at Spire
Global, Red Dot Traffic building (#04-07, 28 Maxwell Rd,
map).
Five talks (10-20 min each) are already lined up:
- Thia Kai Xin: Optimization models (nbviewer)
- Martin Andrews: Theano (& GPUs) (slides)
- Asankhaya Sharma: Software …
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Sep 2014 meetup
[postfactum]
An irregular† user meeting was held on September 4th, 7:30-9pm at
HSG as usual.
Björn talked about Reusable Django Apps among other
things (slides).
───
† Thanks to PayPal for pizza and beers. Hopefully this irregularity
will become part of our regular user meetings...
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July 2014 events
PyLadies SG are
organizing "Introduction to Python" tutorial on July 26th, 1-4pm at
HSG.
Next regular PUGS meeting will be held on July 31th, 7-9pm at
HSG.
Talks:
- New stuff in IPython notebook: widgets
and alternative visualization by Ivan (src,
html)
- Data mining, NLP and graph analysis with
pattern by …
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Thank You for Attending PyCon SG 2014
On behalf of all the PyCon organizing committee members, I would like to thank
all attendees for taking time off to attend PyCon Singapore 2014 which was held at
Singapore Polytechnic from 18th June to 20th June.
We organized this conference for the Python developer and student community in
Singapore …
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Call for proposals for PyConSG 2014
On behalf of the organizing committee of PyCon SG 2014,
we are pleased to invite members of the community to submit talks
and/or tutorials for the 2014 PyCon Singapore Conference, to be held at the Singapore Polytechnic from June 18 to 20, 2014.
Our highlight this year is the …
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Feb 2014 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on February 19th, 7:30-9pm at the
hackerspace.sg.
We'll have Martijn Faassen presenting on
MorePath micro web framework.
"Morepath is an Python WSGI microframework. It uses routing, but the routing
is to models. Morepath is model-driven and flexible, which makes it
expressive." (docs …
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Dec 2013 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on December 18th, 7-9pm at the new
hackerspace.sg.
On the menu:
- DevOps with Python (ansible) by Rahul
- Building interactive web based data visualizations on large
datasets without writing any javascript! (bokeh) by Hugo
Videos (thanks to Mike)
- Rahul's talk
- Hugo's talk
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Welcome to PUGS
Finally! PUGS's online :)
This is intended to be an official communication channel for Python Users
Group Singapore.
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