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.
UPDATE
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: Pyfrost: microservice for feature gating
Abstract: Pyfrost is a microservice that aims to solve all your feature gating
needs. The philosophy behind pyfrost is to think of entitlement of features you
develop as a logical conclusion of various considerations.
Bio:Yatish Bathini has been working as a software engineer on the live chat
product offered by Zendesk (formerly known as Zopim) since 2015. He is an
integral part of the team working on developing key product features for
enterprise markets.
8pm: Talk #2: Introduction to Algorithmic Trading With Quantopian
Abstract: In this short sharing session, Anthony will walk you through the
Quantopian platform and explain the data, tools,
lectures and various aids provided to get you from a novice to professional algo
developer. You will learn how to utilise the back tester to test your algo
strategy and when you are happy with it, go live and trade with real money.
Bio: Anthony has been teaching investment and portfolio management related
modules at educational institutions since 2010. He holds an MBA and an MFE from
Otago University (NZ) and NUS (Singapore) respectively. With a strong passion
for finance, data science, and programming, Anthony has also designed
curriculums for his own beginner level algorithmic trading workshops in addition
to Quantopian events.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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).
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† 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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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 ...
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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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