Tutorials Schedule

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Videos & Slides

A huge thanks to the speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees for such a great PyCon!

Talk and tutorial videos & slides:

See you next year!


PyCon Tutorials

PyCon 2015 is proud to once again offer a stellar array of tutorials prior to PyCon 2015's main conference days! These are multi-hour tutorial taught by experienced Pythonistas and instructors.

Note: Each tutorial session is 3 hours and 20 minutes long: 90 minutes of teaching, plus a 20 minute break, plus 90 more minutes of teaching.

Tutorial Registration

Register Now! To sign up for these tutorials, proceed to the registration page and add them to your new or existing registration!

Tutorial Only Registration: Use the promo code TUTONLY to register for just the tutorials (not the whole conference).

RegistrationPre Conference RateOn Site Rate
Tutorial Rate$150 USD each $200 USD each


April 8, 2015

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09:00AM TDD with Django, from scratch: a beginner's intro to testing and web development Harry Percival
Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn (I) Jake VanderPlas
Docker 101: Introduction to Docker Andrew T. Baker
Flask Workshop Miguel Grinberg
Hadoop with Python Donald Miner
Practical Graph/Network Analysis Made Simple Eric Ma
A hands-on introduction to Python for beginning programmers Dana Bauer
Pandas From The Ground Up Brandon Rhodes
Shiny, Let's Be Bad Guys: Exploiting and Mitigating the Top 10 Web App Vulnerabilities Mike Pirnat, David Stanek
12:20PM Lunch (Room 710A)
01:20PM IPython & Jupyter in depth: high productivity interactive and parallel python Thomas Kluyver, Kyle Kelley
Python Epiphanies Stuart Williams
Fabric, SaltStack, and Ansible: DevOps'ing with Python G. Clifford Williams
Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn (II) Olivier Grisel
PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People Christophe Pettus
What to do when you need crypto Jarret Raim, Paul Kehrer
Delving into the Django Admin Jacinda Shelly
Hands-on Data Analysis with Python Sarah Guido
Intro to 3D Graphics with Blender and the Blender API Jenny Cheng
04:40PM

April 9, 2015

  Room 510B Room 510D Room 512CG Room 512DH Room 512EA Room 512FB Room 513A Room 513BC Room 513D
09:00AM Introduction to Spark with python Orlando Karam
Building a REST API Using Django & Django REST Framework Kenny Yarboro
Getting comfortable with web security: A hands-on session Asheesh Laroia, Jacky Chang, Nicole Zuckerman
Bayesian statistics made simple Allen Downey
Making Beautiful Graphs in Python and Sharing Them Andrew Seier, Étienne Tétreault-Pinard, Marianne Corvellec
Winning Machine Learning Competitions With Scikit-Learn Ben Hamner
Ansible 101 Luke Sneeringer
Descriptors and Metaclasses - Understanding and Using Python's More Advanced Features Mike Müller
Python by Immersion Stuart Williams
12:20PM Lunch (Room 710A)
01:20PM Introduction to game programming with Kivy Richard Jones
Modules and Packages: Live and Let Die! David Beazley
Django in Depth James Bennett
Statistical inference with computational methods Allen Downey
Slithering Into Elasticsearch Erik Rose
Hands-on with Pydata: how to build a minimal recommendation engine. Diego Maniloff, Christian Fricke, Zach Howard
How to start web scraping Jackie Kazil, Sisi Wei
Hands-on Intermediate Python matt harrison
Twitter Network Analysis with NetworkX Sarah Guido, Celia La
04:40PM

Register Now! To sign up for these tutorials, proceed to the registration page and add them to your existing registration!

Tutorial Only Registration: Use the promo code TUTONLY to register for just the tutorials (not the whole conference).

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