Python Weekly (Issue 354 - July 5 2018)

Python Weekly - Issue 354Â

July 05, 2018

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 354 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

We are excited to announce the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python (beta). The SDK includes the same features available in our Java and Node.js SDKs, and allows you to reduce the amount of boilerplate code you have to write to process Alexa responses and requests. If you code using Python, you can use the SDK to quickly build and deliver voice experiences using Alexa and the extensive Python support libraries and tools.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Giving a drone the ability to autonomously follow you using deep learning-based computer vision techniques like object detection and depth prediction.

Statistics, done correctly, allows us to extract knowledge from the vague, complex, and difficult real world. In this post, we explore descriptive statistics.

In this tutorial, you'll be equipped to make production-quality, presentation-ready Python histogram plots with a range of choices and features. It's your one-stop shop for constructing and manipulating histograms with Python's scientific stack.

Learn and master Django bit by bit in this series.

Introduction to using python and Microsoft's COM technology to automate Windows applications

Learn the four main approaches to string formatting in Python, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. You'll also get a simple rule of thumb for how to pick the best general purpose string formatting approach in your own programs.

Learn how to use Kafka Python to pull Google Analytics metrics and push them to your Kafka Topic.  This will allow us to analyze this data later using Spark to give us meaningful business data.

In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how to configure a new Django website from scratch to accept one-time payments with Stripe.

Python Jobs of the Week

A Backend Engineer at Omaze is someone special. You’ve got experience, but also wisdom; you’re great technically, but also with people; you take pride in your craft, and also in the success of your teammates. You have high standards. You love to ship. And you’re excited by the prospect of using your talents to meaningfully help other people.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python (Beta) helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code. 

Simple random DNS, HTTP/S internet traffic noise generator.

Text to face generation using Deep Learning.

Train and visualize Hierarchical Attention Networks.

A Python schema-based machine learning library.

An extensible python-based genomics visualization engine.

DoWhy is a Python library that makes it easy to estimate causal effects. DoWhy is based on a unified language for causal inference, combining causal graphical models and potential outcomes frameworks.

Python asynchronous client library for Kubernetes.

The FluidDyn project aims at promoting the use of open-source Python software in research in fluid dynamics. The project provides some Python packages specialized for different tasks.

Utility to help search within a set of jupyter notebooks.

New Releases

This is a major release that brings a lot of immensely interesting API integration features.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • How to Fix a Broken virtualenv

  • Don't Forget to Have Fun

  • The Art of Developer Testing

There will be following talks

  • Refreshing Your Linear Algebra Knowledge with NumPy

  • Solving Geophysics Problems With Python

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