Workshop: Processing Large Data with Pandas

Pandas has become an incredibly popular Python package for processing data. We’ve had brief mentions of it before, but this month we have a proper workshop by a subject matter expert, Dayton’s own Evelyn Boettcher!

In this tutorial, we will:

Learn how Python uses memory with Pandas
How to reduce the Pandas’ dataframe memory footprint.
Learn what data types are
Speed up reading in csv files by using categories
Reduce the memory footprint by 90%

This is a hands-on workshop - bring a laptop if you can!

https://github.com/ejboettcher/Talk-ProcessingLargeDatawithPandas

New meeting location!

Innovation Hub - not Brixx!

We’ve begun to meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex. Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.