Python Weekly (Issue 365 September 20 2018)

Python Weekly - Issue 365

September 20, 2018

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 365 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

In this post, we’ll first take a look at Kubernetes and container orchestration in general and then we’ll walk through a step-by-step tutorial that details how to deploy a Flask-based microservice (along with Postgres and Vue.js) to a Kubernetes cluster.

Learn how Sqreen uses use Amazon Kinesis to process and stream security data from its agent in near real-time.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to apply OpenCV OCR (Optical Character Recognition). We will perform both (1) text detection and (2) text recognition using OpenCV, Python, and Tesseract.

The etch-a-sketch is one of the most frustrating drawing toys from childhood. Can we combine some code and motors to make this toy produce nice pictures? 

Have you ever wondered how Netflix suggests movies to you based on the movies you have already watched? Or how does an e-commerce websites display options such as "Frequently Bought Together"? They may look relatively simple options but behind the scenes, a complex statistical algorithm executes in order to predict these recommendations. In this article, we will see how we can build a simple recommender system in Python.

If you’ve worked on a Python project that has more than one file, chances are you’ve had to use an import statement before. In this tutorial, you’ll not only cover the pros and cons of absolute and relative imports but also learn about the best practices for writing import statements.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Simple High Frequency Trading Bot for Crypto Currencies.

A collection of datasets ready to use with TensorFlow.

ASCII Art Library For Python.

Collection of Tools & Procedures for double checking GitHub configurations.

A Python module for slinging infrastructure (with terraform).

Lightweight Bitcoin client.

A testing framework for mail security and filtering solutions.

A re-implementation of the asyncio mainloop on top of Trio.

pydicom is a pure python package for working with DICOM files. It was made for inspecting and modifying DICOM data in an easy "pythonic" way. The modifications can be written again to a new file.

Simplified music notation.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • Python and IOTA cryptoledger

  • Faster Autocomplete: From Elasticsearch to pure Python! 

There will be following lightning talks

  • The magic of CFFI

  • Intro to Neural Networks with Keras

There will be following talks 

  • We Are 3000 Years Behind: Let's Talk About Engineering Ethics

  • Using singledispatch to simplify code

  • Prophet Time-series library

  • Finite Linear Analysis

There will be following talks

  • Let the AI Do the Talk: Adventures with Natural Language Generation 

  • Demystifying complex models: Learnings from using SHAP explainers in the real world at GoCardless

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