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- Among the top five programming languages on popularity and usage indices
- Popular websites like Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, and DropBox are built with Python
- Even companies like Facebook and Google use Python to manage their server’s software infrastructure
- A rich collection of free libraries make Python a cost-effective alternative to many existing proprietary commercial software packages
- Provides easy integration with and additional complementary packages for software tools commonly used in statistics and data science e.g.
- Hadoop
- Spark
- QuantLib
- R
- Excel
PyOhio
July 29 & 30, 2017, at The Ohio Union
pyohio.org
What’s Python?
An open source computer programming language loved by entry-level and expert programmers alike. It has broad applications across many disciplines, and is widely used by engineers, scientists, statisticians, analysts, mathematicians, AI developers, and others to build custom software.
Why Python?
What’s PyOhio?
A volunteer run, free conference about all aspects of Python. Two days, four tracks. A mix of local, regional, and nationally known speakers. Past presenters include K. Lars Lohn, Brandon Rhodes, Catherine Devlin, Kenneth Reitz, Simon Willison, Doug Hellman, Katie Cunningham, Alex Gaynor, & Dana Engebretson.
A Joint Production of PyOhio and the OSU Open Source Club!
Please direct any questions about event to info@opensource.osu.edu