Description:

How has Python evolved over the last 15 years?

This talk is an exploration of the kinds of questions that were important to Pythonistas starting from 2008 till date, seen from the lens of StackOverflow, covering

• The pain of migrating to Python 3 to the deprecation of Python 2
• The rise and fall of Django
• The emergence of data science libraries and the defeat of R as the de-facto data science language
• ... and more

... based purely on an analysis of the questions and answers from StackOverflow.

The talk will also cover the techniques to mine large textual datasets, and the pros and cons of LLMs in this matter.

Prerequisites:

None

Speaker Info:

Anand is a co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories. He is recognized as one of India's top 10 data scientists and is a regular TEDx speaker.

Anand is a gold medalist at IIM Bangalore and an alumnus of IIT Madras, London Business School, IBM, Infosys, Lehman Brothers, and BCG.

More importantly, he has hand-transcribed every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever and dreams of watching every film on the IMDb Top 250 (except The Shining).

He blogs at https://s-anand.net. His talks are at https://bit.ly/anandtalks

Speaker Links:

• Talks: https://s-anand.net/blog/talks/
• Github: https://github.com/sanand0