I am usually very selective about attending conferences!

Its not because I don’t like networking or talking to people. Its because I have a very high bar on time used in networking. I feel self-learning and discussing actual problems (when working on them) with people results in far more value for the time spent. However, there is one conference I want to attend at some point in future – PyCon (USA chapter).

For those who don’t know, PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. While the conference is aimed to entire Python community (and not just data scientists), there is still a lot of learning and networking opportunities for data scientists. In India, the event is still not as big, but its recognition in industry is only a matter of time! This year, it is scheduled to be in September.

PyCon 2014 – USA happened recently (9th – 17th April) and I am sure it would have been a great platform for like minded people to interact and learn. As part of this conference, leading industry experts took a few tutorials. These tutorials are awesome source of knowledge, if you want to become awesome in using Python!

Here are my recommendations from these tutorials and the reasons why I like them:

I am left with another one Bayesian statistics made simple to watch – I am hoping that it is a good one as well. All these tutorials are awesome resources for learning Python for data analysis from some of the best minds across the globe.

Do you have any other tutorials which you would want to add to the recommendations? Please feel free to do so through comments below.

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