PyCon US 2014 is being held in Montreal and the conference was last weekend (April 11-13).
PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.
For all of you that did no go, the full conference is available as 138 YouTube videos:
- Python Epiphanies
- Opening Statements – PyCon 2014 (2014/04/11)
- mrjob: Snakes on a Hadoop
- Mining Social Web APIs with IPython Notebook
- Lightning talks – Saturday morning
- How to formulate a (science) problem and analyze it using Python code
- Hands-on intro to Python for beginning programmers
- Getting Started with Django, a crash course
- Exploring Machine Learning with Scikit-learn
- Diving deeper into Machine Learning with Scikit-learn
- Descriptors and Metaclasses – Understanding and Using Python’s More Advanced Features
- 0 to 00111100 with web2py
- What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It?
- Twisted Mixing
- Turn Your Computer Into a Server
- The Young Coder: Let’s Learn Python
- The State of Crypto in Python
- The Python Pipeline: Why you should reach out to local teachers
- Teaching Python: To Infinity and Beyond
- TDD for web applications, from scratch
- Straightening Out AngularJS with Python
- So you want to be a full-stack developer? How to build a full-stack python
- Shiny, Let’s Be Bad Guys: Exploiting and Mitigating the Top 10
- Search 101: An Introduction to Information Retrieval
- Realtime predictive analytics using scikit-learn & RabbitMQ
- Python Scraping Showdown: A performance and accuracy review
- Python + Geographic Data = BFFs
- Python for Social Scientists
- Python 3/2 Web Development with Pyramid
- Puppet Modules: Apps for Ops
- PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People
- Pickles are for Delis, not Software
- Lightning talks – Sunday morning
- Let’s Learn Twisted Python
- Kneel And Disconnect: Getting The Fastest Connection Out Of A Hostname
- Keynote – John Perry Barlow
- IPython in depth: high productivity interactive and parallel python
- Introduction to Web (and data!) Scraping with Python
- Introduction to SQLAlchemy
- Introduction to Regular Expressions
- Introduction to game programming
- Improving automated testing with py.test
- Import-ant Decisions
- How to Get Started with Machine Learning
- Hello Physical World: A Crash Course on the Internet of Things
- Hands-on with Pydata: how to build a minimal
- Getting Started with SaltStack
- Getting Hy on Python: How to implement a Lisp front-end to Python
- Generators: The Final Frontier
- For Lack of a Better Name(server): DNS Explained.
- Flask by Example
- Faster Python Programs through Optimization
- Fan-in and Fan-out: The crucial components of concurrency
- Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Again
- Dynamics and Control with Python
- Django for Web Designers and Front End Developers
- Distributed task processing using Celery
- Distributed Computing Is Hard, Lets Go Shopping
- Decorators: A Powerful Weapon in your Python Arsenal
- Data Wrangling for Kaggle Data Science Competitions — An etude
- Contribute with me! Getting started with open source development
- Computer science fundamentals for self-taught programmers
- Character encoding and Unicode in Python
- Castle Anthrax: Dungeon Generation Techniques
- Cache me if you can: memcached, caching patterns and best practices
- By Your Bootstraps: Porting Your Application to Python3
- Build your own PiDoorbell! – Learn Home Automation with Python
- Building and breaking a Python sandbox
- Blending art, technology, and light, Python for interactive and real time
- Beyond Defaults: Creating Polished Visualizations Using Matplotlib
- Bayesian statistics made simple
- Application Deployment State of the Onion
- Ansible – Python-Powered Radically Simple IT Automation
- An Introduction to Twisted
- All Your Ducks In A Row: Data Structures in the Standard Library and Beyond
- Advanced methods for creating decorators
- Writing RESTful web services with Flask
- Which messaging layer should you use if you want to build
- What is coming in Python packaging
- Upgrade your Web Development Toolchain
- Unit Testing Makes Your Code Better
- Track memory leaks in Python
- The Sorry State of SSL
- The Day of the EXE Is Upon Us
- Technical on-boarding, training, and mentoring.
- Subprocess to FFI: Memory, Performance, and Why You Shouldn’t Shell Out
- So You Want to Build an API?
- Software Engineering Research for Hackers: Bridging the Two Solitudes
- Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned
- Smart Dumpster: Employing Python to Report Real-Time Resource
- Set your code free: releasing and maintaining an open-source Python project
- See Docs Run. Run, Docs, Run!
- Sane schema migrations with Alembic and SQLAlchemy
- REST is not enough: Using Push Notifications to better support your mobile clients
- Quick Wins for Better Website Security
- Python packaging simplified, for end users, app developers
- Python in the Browser: Intro to Brython
- Pushing Python: Building a High Throughput, Low Latency System
- Programming an Autonomous 20 Foot Blimp with Python
- PostgreSQL is Web Scale (Really)
- Postgres Performance for Humans
- Performance Testing and Profiling: A Virtuous Cycle
- Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration
- My big gay adventure. Making, releasing and selling an indie game made in python.
- Multi-factor Authentication – Possession Factors
- Localization Revisited
- Lightning talks – Sunday morning
- Lightning talks – Saturday evening
- Know Thy Neighbor: Scikit and the K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm
- Keynote – Van Lindberg
- Keynote – Jessica McKellar
- Keynote – Guido Van Rossum
- Keynote – Fernando Perez
- It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the Invisible Monsters in Tech
- Introduction to SQLAlchemy Core
- Introduction to Docker
- In Depth PDB
- Hitchhikers Guide to Participating in Open Source
- Getting Started Testing
- Garbage Collection in Python
- Games for Science: Creating interactive psychology experiments
- Fast Python, Slow Python
- Farewell and Welcome Home: Python in Two Genders
- Django: The good parts
- Diving into Open Data with IPython Notebook & Pandas
- Discovering Python
- Developing Flask Extensions
- Designing Poetic APIs
- Designing Django’s Migrations
- Deliver Your Software In An Envelope
- Data intensive biology in the cloud: instrumenting ALL the things
- Closing address – PyCon 2014 (2014/04/13)
- Cheap Helicopters In My Living Room
- Building the App
- A Scenic Drive through the Django Request-Response Cycle
- Analyzing Rap Lyrics with Python
- Advanced techniques for Web functional testing
- 2D/3D graphics with Python on mobile platforms
Now you need some serious time off to view all that!