Scientific_Computing

We are a Special Interest Group (SIG) of Puget Sound Programming Python meetup (PuPPy - https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/). We tentatively meet every Fourth-Thursday. Our meetings are informal, where speakers present/demonstrate on a topic. We emphasize lively discussions after each talk/demonstration. Our goal is to teach and learn from others.

Organizers of this SIG:

Sai S. Nudurupati (meetup profile: https://www.meetup.com/members/189071684/);
Kurt Maurer (meetup profile: https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/members/186155114/);
Amanda Manaster (meetup profile: https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/members/256934194/); and
Jacob Deppen (meetup profile: https://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/members/271483036/).

PuPPy's Code Of Conduct (CoC - https://www.pspython.com/pages/code-of-conduct/) applies to our meetups. If you face an issue, please report to either a Scientific_Computing meetup's organizer (Sai, Kurt, and Amanda) or any of the PuPPy's organizers. Please be nice to each other and have fun.

Find information on previous talks below:

21Nov19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Alan Vezina (co-founder and co-organizer of PuPPy and PyCascades)
  • title: Flask - Getting Started
  • talk material:

24Oct19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Abhi Banerjee
  • title: Introduction to Quantum Computing via IBM Qiskit
  • material: A few quantum computing resources: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvp2xg9-POLJhQwtVktlYGbY https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/ https://qiskit.org/documentation/ https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/support/guides/gate-overview?section=5d00d964853ef8003c6d6820# https://github.com/Qiskit https://hackernoon.com/a-brief-introduction-to-quantum-computing-d21e578cb7ed

26Sep19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Oriana Chegwidden (Staff Scientist and Graduate Student, University of Washington)

  • title: 'Climate Change, Water, and Donald Rumsfeld in the Pacific Northwest'
  • talk material:
    • slides:

• Speaker: Matt Drury (Data Scientist)

  • title: 'Algorithmic Drafting for Magic: The Gathering'
  • talk material:
  • slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UUuSR5V_BURDkGMWRGkFyOENRZCFzTyN6AZrq1zoncU/edit
  • github: https://github.com/madrury/mtg-draftbot

22Aug19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: David Kaspar (Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer)

  • title: 'Optimal Clustering with HDBSCAN and a Customizable Metric'
  • talk material:
    • slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WbSdh5I7UJftSpWM4HqKWX0sM7-U6JexcG_PzWoyPMU/edit?usp=sharing
    • github: https://github.com/UpwardTrajectory/meander-maker#meander-maker
    • live deployment: https://meander.datakaspar.com

• Speaker: Sebastian Alvis (MS Physics, University of Washington)

  • title: 'The Endless Quest for Excellent Data Quality: a Physics Programming Talk'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/SebastianAlvis_slides_22Aug19.pdf

25Jul19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Steven Pestana (Ph.D. Student, University of Washington)

  • title: 'When will the snow melt? Infrared remote sensing over mountain forests and snow' - talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/StevenPestana_slides_26Jul19.pdf

• Speaker: Jacob Deppen (Data Analyst, CBRE)

  • title: 'Using Python to solve old problems in archaeology'
  • talk material @ XXXX Will be updated! XXXX

27Jun19: Talk at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Yifan Cheng (Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington)
  • title: 'Better understanding human activities on river temperatures under climate change' - talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/YifanCheng_presentation_27Jun19.pdf

23May19: Talk at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Brendan Herger (Data Scientist, Convoy)
  • title: 'Machine learning workflow in Pandas' - talk material @ https://github.com/bjherger/public-talks/tree/master/meetups/2019-05-22-ML-workflows

25Apr19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Jared Anderson (Data Scientist)

  • title: 'Prouster: Using Deep Learning to overcome writer's block' - talk material @ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Esjm0YMxcgjqVnnIIGIFyijHBqLEYCF-76SS542rCD4/edit#slide=id.g40ceb9c9a5_0_0 and https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iNp0aUC8eJz7Nw2so8kLX_Rz-IMlaLC6ROdQLAjLXJI/edit#slide=id.p

• Speaker: Sebastian Alvis

  • title: 'League of Legends Item Balancing'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/SebastianAlvis_slides_25Apr19.pdf

21Mar19: Talk at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Nic Wayand (Research Scientist at Amazon)
  • title: 'A Year-Round Subseasonal-To-Seasonal Sea Ice Prediction Portal (Powered by Pangeo!)' - talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/NicWayand_slides_21Mar19.pdf

21Feb19: Talk at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Dr. Donald B. Kinghorn (Scientific Computing adviser at Puget Systems)
  • title: 'Scientific Computing with PyTorch (How to use a machine learning framework for GPU accelerated general scientific programming)'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/dbkinghorn/Sci-Py-PuPy-talk

15Jan19: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Ryan Currier (Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington)

  • title: 'Quantifying and modeling sub-grid scale variability of snow in multiple climates throughout the western United States'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/RyanCurrier_slides_17Jan19.pdf

• Speaker: Diana Gergel (Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington)
  

  • title: 'Leveraging scalable Python-based geoscience tools to analyze land surface climate in the Arctic'
    
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/DianaGergel_slides_17Jan19.pptx and https://github.com/dgergel/scientific_computing_20190117

11Dec18: Talk at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Quentin Caudron (Senior Data Scientist at CBRE)
  • title: 'Genetic algorithms for antenna optimisation'
  • talk material @ https://gist.github.com/QCaudron/4e8bd8795bc50c5b459fed2fda551ea2

15Nov18: Talks at Galvanize

• Speaker: Brendan Herger

  • title: 'Modeling for fraud & class imbalance'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/bjherger/public-talks/tree/master/meetups/2018-11-15-fraud

• Speaker: Meredith Fore (Ph.D. student, University of Washington)
  

  • title: 'Quantum Monte Carlo: Rolling the dice but the dice are molecules'
    
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/MeredithFore_PuPPy_15Nov2018.pdf

18Oct18: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: David Coons (Oregon State University, Alumni of University of Michigan)
  • title: 'Unfolding 4-Dimensional Cubes'
  • talk material @ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bWLg36JCaQ1VUvnppBJaZ_He3CHdo6ZhHqKFyPqamHo/edit

20Sep18: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Yu Cheng (Ph.D., University of Miami)
  • title: 'Quantifying Agulhas leakage in a coupled climate model'
  • talk material @ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uaZztYrSCPRRuXdn7HrY3T49k6GjV2hT/view

16Aug18: Talks at Galvanize

• Speaker: Sebastian Alvis (University of Washington)

  • title: 'Nuclear Physics Computing: Using ROOT to Speed Up Data Analysis'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/SebastianAlvis_16Aug18.pdf

• Speaker: Anamol Pundle (University of Washington)

  • title: 'Can traffic sensor data detect vehicle cruising?'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/AnamolPundle_16Aug18.pdf

19Jul18: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Brad Chamberlain (Cray Inc.)

  • title: 'Chapel: Programmability, Parallelism, and Performance'
  • talk material @ https://chapel-lang.org/presentations/ChapelForPuPPy-presented.pdf

• Speaker: Allison Pfeiffer (University of Washington)

  • title: 'Harnessing USGS online databases to understand continent scale trends in gravel rivers'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/blob/master/talk_materials/AllisonPfeiffer_19Jul18.pdf

21Jun18: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Amanda Manaster (University of Washington)

  • title: 'Creating a road erosion model using Landlab'

• Speaker: Josh Paik (University of St. Andrews)

  • title: 'Image Masking and Cell Segmentation'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/talk_materials

17May18: Talks at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Bryce Kalmbach and Peter Whidden (University of Washington)

  • title: 'KBMod: a new algorithm designed to search astronomical images for moving objects'
  • talk material @ https://gist.github.com/jbkalmbach/663c5b06b7e8f895f29c08a30e742fee

• Speaker: Abhishek Varma (Taunt)

  • talk material @ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13TRA8sRuUolcZxclX04DKJakgduZcUABDn4hbiiN_gY/edit?usp=sharing

19Apr18: Talks at Galvanize (Discovery classroom - 2nd floor)

• Speaker: Dylan Albrecht (CDK Global)

  • title: 'A Machine Learning Vignette — Data Exploration to Production'.
  • talk material @ https://github.com/nonabelian/talk_april_2018-puppy

• Speaker: Alando Ballantyne (Sovereign Finance)

  • title: Shared technical details on 'Crop acreage and clusters over any given aoi'
  • talk material @
    • https://github.com/alando46/california_ag/blob/master/all_preprocessing.ipynb
    • https://github.com/alando46/california_ag/blob/master/find_plots_identify_crops.ipynb
  • to learn more, look up https://sovereign.finance/
  • Alando's blog: https://alan.do/

15Mar18: Hacknight at CBRE Dev (9 attendees - 27 RSVPs)

• discussion about possibly forming a Kaggle group

• Speaker: James Mategko (CBRE Dev)

  • title: Intro to data engineering final project (github page: jmateg0)

• Speaker: Quentin Caudron (CBRE Dev) - quentincaudron.com

  • title: demonstration of counting your customers code

15Feb18: Talk at Galvanize (Gasworks classroom - 3rd floor)

• Speaker: Jimmy Phoung (PhD student, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington)
  • title: 'Epidemiology, information science, water, scenario-based design, and procedure-oriented programming'

18Jan18: Talks at Moz

• Speaker: Dr. Paul Simonson (Dept. of Pathology, University of Washington)

  • title: Towards Quantitative Pathology

• Speaker: Kurt Maurer

  • title: Why Bubble Sort Is Pretty Okay

14Dec17: Hacknight at CBRE Dev

19Oct17: Hacknight at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: Maelle Vance (Ookla)

  • tutorial: 'Make me read less!'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/ellezv/tutorial_sumy/

• Speaker: Sai S. Nudurupati (PhD student, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington)

  • intro to package: 'xarray'
  • talk material @ https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing/tree/master/HackNight_19Oct17/xarrayTutorial_SaiNudurupati

28Sep17: Meetup at CBRE Dev

• Speaker: George Richardson
  • title: 'Data Science and NLP for Humanitarian and Social Impact Work'
  • I have uploaded this file to this repository as 'GeorgeRichardson_slides_28Sep17'.

07Sep17: Meetup at CBRE Dev (5th Ave, Seattle)

• Speaker: Quentin Caudron (CBRE Dev)
  • title: 'Bio-inspired computing'
  • I have forked his repository into PuPPY-Python (https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/bio-inspired-computing)