Category: 2020 Fall

MySQL is the world’s most popular OS database. With its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more. Additionally, it is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by over 3,000 ISVs &…

Microsoft Azure & Python 🐍 Microsoft and PyCon have been partnering together for many years across the globe. This year, in particular, following PyCon US 2020 in May, we also joined PyCon APAC 2020 in September to closely work with the community on continually improving tools & services that make Python development easier. We are…

Clover Health is a technology company that offers Medicare Advantage insurance plans in the US. Our software platform called Clover Assistant, uses machine learning powered expert systems to organize members’ health data and deliver insights to doctors at the point of care.   The work we do in Hong Kong is closely linked to what Clover…

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Language: CantoneseDate & Time: 7 November 2020, Saturday 17:15-18:00Speaker:Sammy Fung Sammy is the conference chair of PyCon HK. He is also the president of Open Source Hong Kong, GNOME Asia committee lead and a Mozilla Representative. Website / Blog: https://sammy.hkGitHub: https://github.com/sammyfungTwitter: https://twitter.com/sammyfungLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammyfung

The idea comes from one of my friend who is having difficulty using zoom and such inequality may affect their work and study performance during these times of coronavirus pandemic, or even the post-pandemic era. My objective is to think of a way to lower the communication gap between the mute and sound community and…

This section demonstrates how to build a interactive and searchable map using GeoDjango, postGIS and leaflet. Language: CantoneseDate & Time: 7 November 2020, Saturday 16:35-17:05Speaker: Ho Wa WongMember of Election Committee, IT Subsector, g0vhk founder, Member of Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Open Data Index GitHub: https://github.com/howawongTwitter: https://twitter.com/howawongLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howawong/

Apache Heron is a new competing stream processing system in the market. Originally developed by Twitter and used for tweet analytics, and later open-sourced to Apache Foundation. Combining with a streaming system for ingress and a database for storage, Apache Heron enables the ability of real-time big data analytic. With the native support of Python,…

Azure Chatbot is amazing function to let you create intelligence Chatbot systems. This course will tell you how to create Chatbot in Azure with Python , including Luis & QnA Maker , And will let you to create COVID-19 Chatbot in your solution.  Language: CantoneseDate & Time: 7 November 2020, Saturday 15:15-15:45Speaker: Kinfey LoPCIT Kinfey…

Code: https://github.com/vionwinnie/pyspark-horse-race-predict 一般的機器學習課程只介紹怎樣用 JUPYTER NOTEBOOK 用 CSV FILE 去訓練 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL。但實際上在商業情況下，一>旦把模型 DEPLOY ，做 SCORING 的時候就要將 BIGDATA 既 DATAPIPELINE 連接到去 MODEL。我想介紹怎樣用 PYSPARK 建立 ETL PIPIELINE ， 從 HIVE DATABASE 抓取數據及整理數據 再傳送到 tensorflow 模型去計算結果並儲存數據。 這是一個 ONLINE MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM 和 BIG DATA 應用的簡介。(Spark, neo4j, Python, Tensorflow, ETL, end-to-end machine learning model deployment) Language: CantoneseDate & Time:…

FastAPI is becoming a popular library in building REST API endpoint.  The documentation interface and typing conversion makes it much easier and faster to develop and debug when compared to vanilla Flask.  I am going to share some experience in migrating from Flask to FastAPI, as well as integrating authentication and testing with FastAPI. Language:…

There are many GUI toolkits in the standard python but when it comes to embedded device applications, graphical user interfaces must run on Liquid Crystal Displays(LCDs).In developing GUIs for this systems, one needs to go into a much lower level language paradigm using micropython.This talk will discuss the general techniques on developing GUIs in LCDs…

JAX is a library similar to NumPy, redesigned by Google for GPUs and TPUs. A wave of new ML frameworks, based on JAX, are looking for a chance to become an alternative to PyTorch and TensorFlow. In this session, I try out three JAX frameworks (Objax, Flax, and Elegy), showing the steps to solve Kaggle’s…

This is a sharing session on how the speaker had built a production backend for the website that served PyCon APAC 2020 within 4 days. During these 4 days, the speaker had to plan the structure of webapp that interacted with both front-end and back-end, together with a middle-ware that used to check the validity…

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14yapVXWpFHqgBEiToD7Qkp1jNG0ksE6MnELWxGEfVP4/edit?usp=sharing Real Time Monitoring for Machine Learning in Production “As the number of production machine learning use-cases increase, we find ourselves facing new and bigger challenges where more is at stake. Because of this, it’s critical to identify the key areas to focus our efforts, so we can ensure our machine learning pipelines are…

Time series data without missing values or gaps are a general prerequisite in performing analyses.but what can we do when our data contains gaps and what techniques can we use to fill thesevalues? Let us revise some of the widest used gap-filling techniquesSome of the techniques I will cover in this talk are: Linear interpolation…

Oftentimes, company websites are thought of as a single monolithic application. However, as many of you know, websites often host many different applications through a single DNS. We’ll do a dive into how Clover balances the intricacies of allowing independent and customizable content management along with complex applications in one single platform using the power…

If you are anything like me, when you started with Python ‘print’ was the debugger of choice. But you likely found that was slow, tedious, and didn’t cut it for more complex problems. Let’s dive into methods for debugging remote python in environments such as Raspberry Pi, Docker containers, remote Linux Servers, and Jupyter Notebooks…

In this session, I will share about 2 topics: Developing cloud-native application development using Python with MySQL Database Service Implementing agile DevOps with MySQL docker containers on Kubernetes” Remark:I am providing first-hand information on our newly launched MySQL Database Service on OracleCloud (https://www.mysql.com/cloud/) as well as MySQL deployment on Kubernetes. I believethese topics will benefit…

The New generation tooling for MySQL is MySQL Shell.  It has SQL, JS and Python language support.  Using Python with MySQL Shell allows quick ease of use on CLI with MySQL Server.  The session will share the latest usage of MySQL Shell in NoSQL (Collection API) and writing MySQL Shell reports together with Python Script…