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Tools that import data into SQLite can be written in any programming language, and its JSON support means it can even ingest data that may not fit neatly in a standard relational database table.\r\n\r\nDatasette is a Python application that provides an interface over SQLite. It lets you bookmark and queries in your browser and export the results as JSON and CSV. The Datasette plugin ecosystem has over 30 plugins that extend Datasette in different ways, adding visualization tools, alternative export formats and more.\r\n\r\nI'll show how to combine SQLite, Datasette and some simple Python scripts to ingest personal data from multiple different sources and build a personal data warehouse for your digital life. Data sources will include:\r\n\r\n- Twitter\r\n- Facebook\r\n- Apple Photos\r\n- LinkedIn\r\n- Google (via Google Takeout)\r\n- Foursquare / Swarm\r\n- GitHub\r\n- Apple Health\r\n- 23AndMe\r\n\r\nTechniques that work for an individual can work for organizations too. 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This talk will focus on MLOps and how you can adopt these practises no matter the size of your team to enhance your idea to production workflows.\r\n\r\nAre you working on Machine Learning or Data Science? Have you ever thought: \"I am sure this could be automated. Or at least I could be optimising my workflows to make them more efficient but I do not want to do DevOps? If so this talk is for you, we will cover some MLOps tools and approaches to help you make better use of your resources while automating your Data Science workflows and their robustness.", "description": "Does your work (either research, non-profit or industry-based) depend on Machine learning, Data Science or data-intensive analyses? Have you ever wished you could automate some of the boring stuff while adding extra robustness to your workflows so that you and your team can have greater confidence and work more efficiently?\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I will present the concept of MLOps (kind of DevOps for ML scenarios, also referred to as DataOps or AIOps) and how adopting these practices can improve your team's workflows. 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But what are the costs that come with embracing technology as the solution to every analogue issue? The COVID19 crisis has laid bare the challenges of public trust, confidence and expectations that individuals have of technology. In this session we will look at how a perfectly tailored technical solution can impact individual's rights and liberties; and discuss the design parameters to mitigate such impacts.", "description": "Technosolutionism proves that we need a multidisciplinary approach to tech design. In this session we will use the latest examples of the COVID19 apps to illustrate how a solution can be technically perfect while being perfectly inappropriate as a solution to a given problem. We will work backwards from the location/data sharing/API changes which were happily adopted for covid apps to illustrate how/when those sorts of opportunities can be seized by governments and malicious third parties. We will cover the ways in which every dataset aggregated and generated is likely to be appropriated and abused. Why does that happen? How can we prevent that at the design stages? I will lean on my extensive history in the field to pull together examples where policy and agencies have grabbed at opportunities like this to seize additional power, and use it to highlight the urgency of addressing this issue as we go through the everyday. We can change the chaotic technosolutionism that happens by being better informed and better prepared to do our jobs with a critical eye.\r\n\r\nThe session should leave the audience with a broader understanding of the challenges posed by one-stop-shop-technosolutionism and the essential questions that we as participants in the tech space have a responsibility for baking into our thinking and decision making.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "TGHUJY", "name": "Lucie Krahulcova", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/TGHUJY_NkKdjFq.webp", "biography": "Lucie is a professional activist and human rights researcher. She has spent the last five years working for Access Now, an international digital rights ngo working on defending and extending the rights of users at risk. There she campaigned for strong encryption, against the proliferation of targeted-spyware, and for strong government policies which empower and support individual rights and liberties in the online world. 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How can that even work?\r\n\r\nIn this talk we will:\r\n\r\n\r\nThose who attend this talk will learn about bluetooth-assisted contact tracing, exposure notification, and the shiny new new COVID-19 settings on their mobile phone", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "P9CXX8", "name": "Yaakov", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/P9CXX8_n1oCRTw.webp", "biography": "Yaakov is a Senior Developer at WiseTech Global, and has an unfortunate habit of sticking his nose in all the wrong places. He has been writing and breaking code for many years, and has reverse-engineered everything from mobile apps to the Steam client. 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A clear understanding of the import system helps us to fix these errors properly, and build extensions on top of the import system.\r\n\r\nThis talk follows [this](https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when) template to explain what goes on in the background when you execute `from spam import ham`, or any other import statement. Additionally, it discusses **import hooks**(PEP-302) and how to use them.", "description": "### Introduction\r\n\r\nEvery Python script involves import statements. And if you develop software with Python, you might already have come across import and path related errors like ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError, etc.\r\n\r\nIt's important to know the import mechanics, both for general knowledge, and to develop custom plugins to tweak the import system. In this talk, we'd discuss in detail about how the import system works, its components and what tasks they perform respectively.\r\n\r\n### Who should attend this talk?\r\nThis talk is most suitable for beginner to intermediate level Pythonistas.\r\n\r\n### How does the talk proceed?\r\n - The talk starts with packages in Python, and how to organize Python files in order to make them distributable, and importable.\r\n - It proceeds to discuss about $PATH and $PYTHONPATH, and how they are used to enable system-wide imports, and how capable are Python's path based import handlers, if they let a programmer import from remote URIs, etc.\r\n - Different types of packages such as regular packages, namespace packages, frozen modules, etc. are discussed.\r\n - After that, some key components are introduced i.e sys.modules and how modules are refreshed and regulated in runtime, what finders and loaders are, and what 'import protocol' is, sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks.\r\n\r\n- The talk then goes in detail about finders, the default finders in Python, spec object, and its functioning.\r\nAfter finders, loaders are discussed with sample code, explaining the steps involved from processing a spec, and creating, executing, and loading a module to sys.modules.\r\n- After finders and loaders, 'import hooks' are discussed i.e how Python allows injection of custom components to handle a pre-defined import statement.\r\n- This follows a demonstration of import hooks, implementation of a meta_path finder Class which protects importing of modules from an http server with a token exchange. (So the source code is protected, and it can be logged who requested the source code by a signature to act against misuse.)\r\n- The demonstration is followed by listing some important use cases of import hooks, and how folks have used it in the past.\r\n\r\n### What can someone get out of this talk?\r\n\r\nAn understanding of the import system's mechanics, which helps to quickly debug and fix path/import related errors.\r\nKnowledge of import hooks, to build custom import related plugins.\r\n\r\n### Outline\r\n\r\nTime Duration - Topic\r\n\r\n0 - 4 Introduction to packages and how to organize packages\r\n\r\n4 - 7 Types of packages in python, and the default ones the import system supports.\r\n\r\n7 - 12 Components of import system - sys.modules - finders and loaders - chronology of import related tasks\r\n\r\n12 - 15 Finders, examples of finders, and how they function, find_spec function\r\n\r\n15 - 17 sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks in detail\r\n\r\n17 - 19 Introduction to PEP 302, and import hooks\r\n\r\n19 - 22 explain loaders with template code\r\n\r\n23 - 25 code walkthrough and demonstration of an implementation of import hooks\r\n\r\n25 - 26 briefly cover 'importing of submodules' topic with an example\r\n\r\n26 - 28 present use-cases of import hooks, and usage in industry, conclude.\r\n\r\n28 - 30 Q&A\r\n\r\n### Prerequisites:\r\n\r\n - Syntactic knowledge of Python\r\n - Should have come across import/$PYTHONPATH related errors\r\n\r\nIf you don't know either and still like the talk idea, please follow [this gist](https://gist.github.com/plant99/9fee5dbe73f25d4da9c7fb956a36b889) to 'intentionally' come across the errors :)\r\n\r\n## Content URLs\r\n\r\n[WIP slides](https://speakerdeck.com/plant99/wip-what-happens-behind-execution-of-an-import-statement)\r\n\r\n[Longer description of the talk idea as blogpost](https://plant99.bitbucket.io/pages/blogs/ten.html)", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "SJ3KCD", "name": "Shivashis Padhi", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/SJ3KCD_qPs2wFA.webp", "biography": "Shivashis Padhi is a senior, majoring Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.\r\n\r\nWith ~3 years of experience as a student software developer he has worked with multiple organizations(Python Software Foundation - GSoC'20, Delta Force), large and small scale startups(Grofers, Flytbase Labs, Gmetri), he lives by a simple policy, 'learn and build stuff to make the world a better place'. He's currently an intern with the Data Engineering team at Grofers building geospatial data-management tools. 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On the other hand, writing tests is often tedious - and it's rare to think of an error when testing that you forgot when writing the code.\r\n\r\nMy solution? Use tools that write tests for you!\r\n\r\nWhether you're a novice Pythonista or gnarled wizard, this talk about property-based fuzzing and code introspection will educate, entertain, and help take your testing to the next level.", "description": "We often think of manual testing as slower and less effective than automated testing,\r\nbut most test suites haven't automated that much! Computers can execute all our \r\npre-defined tests very quickly - and this is definitely a good thing, especially for \r\nregression tests - but the tricky parts are still done by humans.\r\n\r\nWe select test cases (inputs) and check that the corresponding outputs make sense;\r\nwe write functions that \"arrange, act, and assert\" for our tests; and we decide -\r\nor script via CI systems - which tests to execute and when.\r\n\r\nSo lets explore some next-generation tools that we could use to automate these \r\nremaining parts of a testing workflow!\r\n\r\n[PROPERTY-BASED TESTING](https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) helps you to write more powerful tests by automating selection \r\nof test cases: instead of listing input-output pairs, you describe the kind of data \r\nyou want and write a test that passes *for all X...*. We'll see a live demo, and \r\nlearn something about the Python builtins in the process!\r\n\r\n[CODE INTROSPECTION, and a handy templating tool](https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ghostwriter.html), can help write tests for you.\r\nDo you need to know any more than which code to test, and what properties should hold?\r\n\r\n[ADAPTIVE FUZZING tools](https://hypofuzz.com/) take CI to its logical conclusion: instead of running a fixed\r\nset of tests on each push, they sit on a server and run tests full-time... fine-tuning\r\nthemselves to find bugs in *your* project and pulling each new commit as it lands!\r\n\r\nBy the end of this talk, you'll know what these three kinds of tools can do - \r\nand how to get started with automating the *rest* of your testing tomorrow.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "LFU8AS", "name": "Zac Hatfield-Dodds", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/LFU8AS_oqlC8Gf.webp", "biography": "I'm a researcher at the Australian National University, and maintain a number of packages - mostly focussed on testing. When not at my desk grumbling about the buggy state of software, I can be found with a book, a block of chocolate, and a plan to go somewhere out of phone range for a walk.", "public_name": "Zac Hatfield-Dodds", "guid": "3f0779c7-230b-53b2-863c-6a3cff408151", "url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/speaker/LFU8AS/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/talk/TCT3GH/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/talk/TCT3GH/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "f6820dbf-8136-5f6f-82a8-49025e1e254b", "code": "7AVW7C", "id": 5556, "logo": null, "date": "2020-09-05T13:00:00+09:30", "start": "13:00", "duration": "00:55", "room": "Curlyboi Theatre", "slug": "pycon-au-2020-5556-this-talk-has-been-disabled", "url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/talk/7AVW7C/", "title": "This Talk Has Been Disabled", "subtitle": "", "track": "Main Conference", "type": "Deep Dive", "language": "en", "abstract": "Approximately 20% of the world's population has some form of disability. Despite this, the vast majority of software isn't fully accessible. Making your systems readily usable for everyone is a complex process. Using good design principles and following the WCAG standards is a starting point, but how can you be sure that you're meeting the guidelines? And what if your users have access issues that aren't covered by the standards?\r\n\r\nIn this talk, we'll learn how to meet a variety of accessibility requirements by breaking down a series of real-world case studies. 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Through happy coincidences she is both a founding PyLady and a founding DjangoGirl and has tried to do her best in both these organisations. She's spent more time with tabulated data than a sane person should; she watched the Ed Finkler talk with the same title as this talk a couple of years ago and it really did. 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But think of all the important things your application uses S3 for! Metadata storage, logs, and static file hosting, to name a few.\r\n\r\nTesting code that uses S3 is really easy. This talk goes over three ways to test S3 and leaves you with code examples that you can take to your next project.", "description": "- Benefits of testing code that uses S3\r\n- In-depth code examples of three ways to test S3:\r\n\r\n1. Mock out the S3 API responses using botocore stubs\r\n2. Mock the S3 API using moto\r\n3. Spin up a LocalStack S3 instance and test against that", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "VJG7LK", "name": "Sanjay Siddhanti", "avatar": null, "biography": "I\u2019m an Engineering Manager at Alpha Health. I love building software that helps patients have a better experience with healthcare.\r\n\r\nI have a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University. 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Not only do I enjoy the new and shiny things as a consultant, both Wagtail and GatsbyJS are established frameworks and active communities that put considerable effort in providing a great product with a smooth developer experience. We enjoy the benefits of Django / Wagtail CMS, with a incredibly fast pre-fetched progressive web app with GatsbyJS. 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So where do you start?\r\n\r\nIn this talk i\u2019ll cover some of the core concepts behind how web chatbots work, strategies used to train them to feel more human, and some Python tools that you can use to start building your own.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JS93ST", "name": "Sarah Levins", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/JS93ST_Wez6qis.webp", "biography": "Sarah Levins is a Data and AI consultant at Empired, and an alumni of the She Codes Plus program. She brings over 6 years experience as a Travel Agent with her into her first tech role, and loves creating personalised solutions to interesting problems.\r\n\r\nPython was one of the first programming languages she learned, and loves how accessible it makes coding. She is an active mentor for beginners, and volunteers at workshop events.\r\n\r\nIn her spare time, Sarah runs long distances while listening to showtunes, or watches Thor movies with her cat.", "public_name": "Sarah Levins", "guid": "782bb536-c806-5b7e-81eb-057547c83781", "url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/speaker/JS93ST/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/talk/E9AXJE/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/talk/E9AXJE/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "895a94e0-35f5-5794-bcf1-1aac93b9710e", "code": "MRUT7W", "id": 5489, "logo": null, "date": "2020-09-05T11:35:00+09:30", "start": "11:35", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Flip Floperator Pavillion", "slug": "pycon-au-2020-5489-github-actions-python", "url": "https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2020/talk/MRUT7W/", "title": "GitHub Actions & Python", "subtitle": "", "track": "Main Conference", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "What are GitHub Actions? Why should I use them? 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And a significant portion of these packages could be made better.\r\n\r\nI propose a talk expressing the need for these tools and the advantage of using them with a toy python program for [Nim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim).", "description": "#### Why\r\nMost of the well established projects follow some practices and has some mechanism in place to ensure better maintainability.\r\n\r\nBut we can find a good number of packages online which are being developed without an equivalent mechanism.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I will mention some tools, which when used, can lay the foundation for a well formed package.\r\n\r\n#### Well-formed package\r\n\r\nA package whose source has some structure which makes testing and development more efficient and less error-prone.\r\n\r\nSuch a package also makes working with its source a more pleasant experience.\r\n\r\nA well-formed package makes things easier for both the developer and the user.\r\n\r\nBut it is easier to get started with a structure than to maintain that form. Which calls for a mechanism to maintain that structure.\r\n\r\n#### How\r\n\r\nThe source code should adopt a style and stick with it. A linting tool like pylint can help with it.\r\nOr you could use black.\r\n\r\nUse type annotations along with tools like mypy.\r\n\r\nEliminate unused code with `vulture`.\r\n\r\nAdd tests to be sure that the different functionalities work as intended using tools like pytest or the built-in unittest.\r\nThis will be extremely useful to be sure that further modifications do not break existing code.\r\n\r\nEnsure proper test coverage with coverage.py\r\nAfter all, adding tests isn't everything. One got to make sure it reaches every nook and corner.\r\n\r\nAutomate tests with tox, nox, etc.\r\n\r\nPackage the project in tune with the future of packaging.\r\nsetuptools, flit or poetry\r\n\r\nAnd add some CI/CD.\r\n\r\nOther tools like pre-commit, bumpversion, etc may also be used.\r\n\r\n#### Intended audience\r\n\r\nPeople who create and publish python packages.\r\nThe presentation is from the package developer's perspective and not exactly about the innards of the different python packaging tools.\r\n\r\n#### Pre-requisites\r\n\r\nBasic Python programming.\r\nGit\r\n\r\n## Tentative talk outline\r\n\r\n - Linting\r\n - Type checking\r\n - Eliminating dead code\r\n - Tests\r\n - Test coverage\r\n - Test automation\r\n - Packaging\r\n - CI/CD\r\n - Other tools\r\n - Future of packaging\r\n\r\n#### Speaker info (anonymized):\r\n\r\nUsing Python for 5 years. 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An entirely handcrafted game is limited in content to that which the creator specifically put in. Procedural generation remedies this by using a combination of algorithms and stochastic aspects to programmatically certain kind of data, in this case terrain and game assets, in quantities beyond that which would be possible to design manually\r\n\r\nThis talk will cover the process of procedurally generating a landscape using open-simplex noise and adding realism using simulated erosion.", "description": "Procedural generation is the process of programmatically creating data. Its value is in generating large quantities of similar but not identical assets such as textures and models. This talk will cover the topic of using procedural generation to create a landscape, which will give an illustration of the strengths of procedural generation and ways to overcome its weaknesses.\r\n\r\nMore specifically, the topics covered are:\r\n- using layered opensimplex noise to create a heightmap, as well as an overview of types of noise and the shortcomings of purely noise-based terrain\r\n- using image processing techniques to add mountain ranges in a manner more consistent with real-world geography than noise alone would allow\r\n- further enhancing the terrain by converting it from a heightmap to voxels, and then applying an erosion simulation", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "VEV7NH", "name": "Suzanne Baxter", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/VEV7NH_f7iQ2fn.webp", "biography": "I am mathematical physicist and a junior lecturer for the Learn Programming Academy. 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At the same time, there are over 7000 languages spoken in the world - \"living languages\".\r\n\r\nBut voice assistants support just a fraction of these languages. Moreover, accents and diversity _within_ a spoken language are not well handled by voice assistants. For example, African American voices are much less likely to be correctly recognised by the speech recognition algorithms used within voice assistants. And as we start to interact with systems using voice, we have a human desire to listen to voices we resonate with. Voices like us. For many people, there are no synthesised voices that reflect their heritage, language, and gender expression.\r\n\r\nThere are several techno-social reasons behind this state of affairs.\r\n\r\n* The intent of a commercial voice assistant is to make money. This drives technical development in certain ways, such as certain languages being seen as more lucrative than others, irrespective of the number of speakers of that language. For example, there is more voice assistant support for Icelandic, a language spoken by 314,000 people, than there is for Kiswahili, a language spoken by over 100,000,000 people in Eastern Africa. Why? Money. \r\n\r\n* The big tech companies behind voice assistants have typically poor gender and racial diversity in their talent pool. Diversity in developers leads to diversity in development.\r\n\r\n* The data used for training speech recognition and speech synthesis models often has racial and gender biases. These can stem from both selection bias, but also broader systemic issues of inequality, such as the use of voice assistant technology to gather data - and the affordability of both that technology and its pre-requisites, such as internet access.\r\n\r\n* Many languages are considered \"low resource languages\". This means they often don't have written transcriptions, which are needed to train machine learning models. 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By making environmental compliance data more accessible and pliable through our Jupyter Notebooks, and supplementing the numbers with storytelling, data visualization, and socio-political contextualization, we highlight the chronic issue of industrial violations, the state enforcement activities in areas of interest to our partners, unaddressed inadequacies of legal emissions standards in protecting public health, and levers of political action and collaboration available to address these issues. The goal of this project is to use the power of Jupyter Notebooks to visualize publicly available data in a way that encourages folks to hold the government and industries accountable.", "description": "Attendees will learn how to use Jupyter Notebooks and other Python tools to engage the public to create meaningful outcomes and positive social change. 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