for fun and profitDatascope runs on Python

Bo Peng · NICO Python Project Night · March 16, 2016

who am I, anyway?

who are these folks?

What we do

Strategy

Consulting

Development

Training

What we use Python for

Consulting

Development

Training

Run a business

Other things we think

are fun or important

Before you think we’re a python shop…

Bootstrap

pythonis our

“lingua franca”

Why?- Most of the reasons most other people have said or

will say

- Great for prototyping

- Used in the world of science

- Easy to learn/teach

in practice

Consulting - Jupyter notebooks can be nice for keeping notes and iterating on plots

- Quick scripts play nice with unix tools

- libraries like Scikit-Learn, seaborn

- prototype -> production is fast

- let the database do the heavy lifting

- develop our own tools when necessary

ConsultingDevelopment

datascopeanalytics/traces

Sparck API for: Case study

Case study:

Case study:

Case study:

+ =

- Class hacks

ConsultingDevelopmentTraining

- Jupyter notebooks make great self-guided assignments

ConsultingDevelopmentTraining

- website/blog: running on Django

- treat ourselves like a client

ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a business

datascopeanalytics/a-model

Bank account/revenue simulation + forecasting

- fun blog posts ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a businessOther things we think are fun or important

ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a businessOther things we think are fun or important

datascopeanalytics/scrubadub

Removing personally identifiable information from text

- fun blog posts

- open source tools

What we use Python for

Consulting

Development

Training

Run a business

Other things we think

are fun or important

.co@bo_p

thanks!