2025-08-21 –, Room 1.38 (Ground Floor)
In the vast realm of scientific discovery, a lone notebook awakens with its first incantation: import numpy as np. What begins modestly—a few calculations, some basic plots—soon evolves into an epic quest for knowledge. Our protagonist gathers companions along the way: pandas for data alchemy, matplotlib for visual storytelling, scikit-learn for predictive magic. But the path to enlightenment is treacherous, filled with the ancient curses of dependency hell, the shape-shifting demons of version conflicts, and the dreaded specter of irreproducible results that haunts laboratories worldwide.
Transformed from humble beginnings into a catalyst for breakthrough science—decoding cosmic mysteries, healing human diseases, predicting planetary futures—our hero joins millions of computational explorers pushing the boundaries of human understanding. Every scientific revolution starts with a single spark of code. What epic will you write?
In this keynote we'll take a narrative approach to the evolution of scientific experimentation, the daunting challenges that await and how we as the protagonists can find refuge with each other in the Python ecosystem.
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Expected audience expertise: Python:some
Your relationship with the presented work/project:Original author or co-author
Dawn Wages is a community-centered technologist, open source advocate, and software engineer whose work bridges scientific computing, ethical technology, and inclusive community building. She currently serves as Lead of Community & Developer Relations at Anaconda, where she supports the Python ecosystem through education, outreach, and infrastructure advocacy.