Issue #175: Ant

Weekly dose of all things Python.

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News

PyCon Canada 2015 Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals for PyCon Canada 2015 is open now with the deadline of August 14th. Act fast and get your proposals in now!
google.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

PyTexas 2015
Registration deadline for Earlybird pricing is this Sunday July 19th!
pytexas.org
Shared by @mgrouchy

PyCon Ireland 2015
PyCon Ireland 2015 announced! Organized by Python Ireland this conference takes place on the 24th-25th of October, 2015 in Dublin, Ireland. Check out the call for proposals(Deadline July 31st) and call for sponsors
python.ie
Shared by @pythonireland

Discussion

Good Python code bases to read?
ycombinator.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

What does your GUI look like? Post your screenshots
reddit.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Jobs

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Lead Language Developer - Python (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Posted By  ActiveState.

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Posted By  RTI International.

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Projects

django-spurl
A Django template library for manipulating URLs!
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

backtrader
Python Backtesting library for trading strategies.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

cointrol
Bitcoin trading bot with a real-time dashboard for Bitstamp.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

ytfs
So cool! A File system which enables you to search and play movies from YouTube as files!
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

shortuuid
shortuuid is a simple python library that generates concise, unambiguous, URL-safe UUIDs.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

django-location-field
Location field and widget integrated with Google Maps
github.com
Shared by @caioariede

Articles

Building a Movie Recommendation Service
Nice article serious on Building a Movie Recommendation service with Apache Spark and Flask. Check out Part 1 and Part 2.
codementor.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

Random Forest in scikit-learn
Random Forest is a machine learning technique used for classification, regression, and feature selection. In this article, the author shorts how to implement this in Python using scikit-learn.
alexhwoods.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Opbeat talks to Andrew Godwin
Great talk/interview with Andrew Godwin, Django Core Contributor & Eventbrite Engineer. In the video he talks about building a Heroku for Python and much more!
opbeat.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Want to understand Python's comprehensions? Think like an accountant.
A guide to help understand Python's list comprehensions, check it out to upgrade your knowledge.
lerner.co.il
Shared by @mgrouchy

Pyxley
Python Powered Dashboards! This is pretty legit!
stitchfix.com
Shared by @myusuf3

GUI Automation With Python
Nice article covering tools for GUI automation!
hugo-dc.com
Shared by @myusuf3

A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python
Super simple neural network trained with back propagation with great write up! Worth.
github.io
Shared by @myusuf3

7 Python Tools All Data Scientists Should Know How to Use
BuzzFeed for Data Science Tools! Good read!
galvanize.com
Shared by @myusuf3

arrows - Yet another twitter/Python Data Analysis
Pretty cool analysis of twitter data for the upcoming US election! Completes with pandas and maps!
rajk.me
Shared by @myusuf3

Moving PEP8 to the PyCQA
coglib.com
Shared by @sigmavirus24

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