SciPy 2018 Tutorials

The SciPy Conference kicks off with two days of tutorials (July 9-10) that take place before the general conference. These sessions provide amazing access to expert training and consistently receive fantastic feedback from participants. 
This year you can choose from 23 different SciPy tutorials OR the 2 day Software Carpentry Instructor Training. 

New to Python? Check out our Introductory Track:

Introduction to Python  July 9 at 8:00
NumPy                         July 9 at 1:30
Anatomy of Matplotlib  July 10 at 8:00
Pandas                         July 10 at 1:30


07/09/2018 - 07/10/2018
8:00 am-5:30 pmSoftware Carpentry Instructor Training (July 9-10) [More Info]
Room 103
Speaker: Software Carpentry Team

07/09/2018
8:00 amIntroduction to Python and Programming (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 202
Speaker: Matt Davis, Clover Health
Speaker: Alyssa Whitwell, Clover Health
8:00 amPyViz: Easy Visualization and Exploration for all your Data [More Info]
Room 105
Speaker: James A. Bednar, Solutions Architect, Anaconda, Inc.
Speaker: Jean-Luc Stevens, Software Engineer, Anaconda, Inc.
Speaker: Christopher Ball, Anaconda, Inc.
8:00 amParallelizing Scientific Python with Dask [More Info]
Room 106
Speaker: James Crist, Anaconda, Inc.
Speaker: Martin Durant, Anaconda Inc.
8:00 amAround the World in 80 Ways: An Introduction to Working with Geodata and Cartopy [More Info]
Room 201
Speaker: Philip Elson, Met Office
Speaker: Bill Little, Met Office
8:00 amNetwork Analysis Made Simple: Network Fundamentals [More Info]
Room 101
Speaker: Eric Ma, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Speaker: Mridul Seth, BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
8:00 amGetting Started with TensorFlow [More Info]
Room 203
Speaker: Josh Gordon, Google
Noon-1:30Lunch Break
See "Venue and Local Info" tab for suggestions
1:30 pmIntroduction to Numerical Computing with NumPy (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 202
Speaker: Alexandre Chabot-LeClerc, Enthought
1:30 pm3D Visualization with Mayavi [More Info]
Room 105
Speaker: Prabhu Ramachandran, Enthought and IIT Bombay
1:30 pmAn Introduction to Julia (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 201
Speaker: Jane Herriman, Director of Diversity and Outreach , Julia Computing
Speaker: Sacha Verweij, Stanford University
1:30 pmImage Analysis in Python with SciPy and scikit-image [More Info]
Room 106
Speaker: Stéfan van der Walt, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Juan Nunez-Iglesias, University of Melbourne
Speaker: Joshua Warner, Core Developer, Scikit Image/University of Arizona
1:30 pmSoftware Engineering Techniques (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 203
Speaker: Matt Davis, Clover Health
Speaker: Alyssa Whitwell, Clover Health
1:30 pm Information Extraction Using Topic Models [More Info]
Room 101
Speaker: Parul Sethi, University of Delhi

07/10/2018
8:00 amAnatomy of Matplotlib (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 202
Speaker: Ben Root, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc/Matplotlib
Speaker: Hannah Aizenman, City University of New York
8:00 amMachine Learning with scikit-learn Part 1 [More Info]
Room 203
Speaker: Andreas Mueller, Columbia University
Speaker: Guillaume Lemaitre, INRIA Saclay - Parietal team
8:00 amGetting Started with JupyterLab (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 105
Speaker: Matthias Bussonnier, Jupyter/Ipython, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Jason Grout, Bloomberg LP
8:00 amIntroduction to Geospatial Data Analysis with Python [More Info]
Room 106
Speaker: Serge Rey, University of California, Riverside
Speaker: Dani Arribas-Bel, University of Liverpool
Speaker: Joris Van den Bossche, Université Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science
Speaker: Levi Wolf, University of Bristol
8:00 amScientific MicroPython on Microcontrollers [More Info]
Room 101
Speaker: Roberto Colistete Jr, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
8:00 amSetting Up Your Own Open Source Project [More Info]
Room 201
Speaker: Ryan May, UCAR/Unidata
Speaker: John Leeman, UCAR/Unidata
Noon-1:30Lunch Break
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1:30 pmpandas .head() to .tail() (Beginner Level) [More Info]
Room 105
Speaker: Dillon Niederhut, Enthought
Speaker: Tom Augspurger, Anaconda, Inc.
Speaker: Joris Van den Bossche, Université Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science
1:30 pmMachine Learning with scikit-learn Part 2 [More Info]
Room 203
Speaker: Andreas Mueller, Columbia University
Speaker: Guillaume Lemaitre, INRIA Saclay - Parietal team
1:30 pmHands-on Satellite Imagery Analysis [More Info]
Room 201
Speaker: Sara Safavi, Planet
Speaker: Dana Bauer, Planet
1:30 pmThe Jupyter Interactive Widget Ecosystem [More Info]
Room 202
Speaker: Matt Craig, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Speaker: Jason Grout, Bloomberg LP
Speaker: Sylvain Corlay, QuantStack
Speaker: Maarten Breddels, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen
1:30 pmThe Sheer Joy of Packaging [More Info]
Room 101
Speaker: Michael Sarahan, Anaconda, Inc.
Speaker: Matthew McCormick, Kitware, Inc.
Speaker: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Kitware, Inc.
Speaker: Filipe Fernandes, SECOORA
Speaker: Chris Barker, NOAA
Speaker: Matt Craig, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Speaker: Jonathan Helmus, Anaconda, Inc.
Speaker: Ray Donnelly, Anaconda, Inc.
1:30 pmBayesian Data Science Two Ways: Simulation and Probabilistic Programming [More Info]
Room 106
Speaker: Eric Ma, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Speaker: Hugo Bowne-Anderson, DataCamp