List of videos

Data Processing & Machine Learning with Python - PyCon SE 2015

Ahmed Kachkach This talk gives a quick overview of Python's capabilities as a data-processing and machine learning tool through practical examples: gathering data from the web or a local file, validating/modifying it and finally analyzing it to build models for classification and prediction tasks

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Test Driven Development with Python and Django - PyCon SE 2015

Flavia Missi Target audience: Beginners TDD can be tricky and many developers out there fail to perceive it's real value. This talk will show TDD's benefits and applications with real world examples.

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U2F: Phishing proof two factor authentication for everyone - PyCon SE 2015

Dain Nilsson Target audience: Advanced users Today's dominating two-factor authentication standard was invented long before the web; it's not secure nor usable enough. This led a group of IT-giants to develop the U2F open standard. We'll start by showing U2F in action, explain how it works and why it's needed, then add U2F to a Django application.

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How Python drives the analysis of billions of DNA sequences - PyCon SE 2015

Guillermo Carrasco and Robin Andeer Target audience: Advanced users The first part will focus on how Python manages the preprocessing and analysis of billions of DNA sequences in a completely automated way. We will also cover how sequencing results are visualised using Flask and MongoEngine to solve medical mysteries in the clinic today.

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How to build a Python web application with Flask and Neo4j - PyCon SE 2015

Nicole White Target audience: Advanced users Flask, a popular Python web framework, has many tutorials available online that use an SQL database to store information about the website’s users and their activities. In this session, we’ll use Neo4j instead of SQL to build social aspects into our application, including recommending similar users to the logged-in user.

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Python for Humans - PyCon SE 2015

Kenneth Reitz Target audience: Advanced users Python’s ecosystem is held up to a high standard, but it falls short in a few key areas. A handful of crucial APIs are an absolute pain to work with. We’ll go over where these APIs went wrong and learn about strong and elegant API design. The high barriers to entry in Python will be discussed. Potential solutions will be proposed.

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Why Django Sucks - PyCon SE 2015

Emil Stenström Target audience: Advanced users When you love something very much, you run the risk of losing perspective. This is my chance to take on a more negative view of Django, and talk about its worst parts. I will talk about five problem areas: Async, Components, NoSQL, Isomorphic apps, and Single codebase.

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GitFs: Building a file system in Python - PyCon SE 2015

Vlad Temian Target audience: Advanced users GitFs is an open-source filesystem which was designed to bring the full powers of Git to everyone, no matter how little they know about versioning. In this talk we will take a look at some of the crucial aspects involved in building a reliable FUSE filesystem, the steps that we took in building GitFs, especially in handling the git objects, what testing methods we have used for it and also we will share the most important lessons learned while building it.

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