Keynote for PyCon Philippines 2016 in Cebu. This talk explores how Python and people partner to address complex real world issues. Project Jupyter and its notebooks are also shared.

1. Python
The People’s Programming Language
Carol Willing
@willingcarol on Twitter
willingc everywhere else

2. Possibilities

4. Me
Manila
1998

5. Diversity

6. Communication
ActionsIdeas

8. Family

9. Education

10. Caring

11. write * speak * code

12. Communication
ActionsIdeas

13. Seeds
Flow
Mix
Ideas

14. 1966 - 50 years ago
Agriculture
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/

15. 1986 - 30 years ago
Electronics, Textiles, and Agriculture

16. 2013 - 3 years ago
Technology and computers

18. 2026 - 10 years future
???

19. Idea flow

20. Mix and remix

21. write * speak * code

22. Communication
ActionsIdeas

23. “Packaged intervention is easy.
Nurturing individual heart,
mind, and will is hard. We need
more taking the hard road.”
- Kentaro Toyama
Fellow, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics
and Transformative Values at MIT
Lead

24. Reina Reyes
Ask questions
Embrace wonder
Encourage
Lead
Confirmation of general relativity on
large scales from weak lensing and
galaxy velocities
Nature, 11 March 2010

25. Law of Amplification
Follow

26. Follow

27. There will be naysayers…
Resilience

28. “Use your
superpowers
proudly”
Resilience

29. write * speak * code

30. Communication
ActionsIdeas

31. Computational narratives
and
human stories

32. Cross discipline
communication
complex issue of
water quality

33. Education
Learning curve, experimentation,
real data, large datasets

34. write * speak * code

35. Encouragement
Turn your possibilities into reality
ActionsIdeas
Communication
YOU

36. Grants
PyCon US
Blog
Become a member: python.org/psf-landing
PSF

37. Jupyter
Language agnostic notebooks
JupyterHub for education
Computational narratives
try.jupyter.org

38. The Zen of Jupyter
import you
Knowing why is better than how.
Computational narrative is better than code.
Understandable is better than jargon.
Ultimately, people matter. Treat them well.

39. What will you?
write
speak
code
Podcast - commute
Songs, songs, songs
Word out - international conferences
study groups - pyladies remote
Workshops - Django Girls, PyLadies Cebu
mobile education - JupyterHub dream
Design and web - static sites, cookiecutter
Children’s book about Reina Reyes
mathematics and music ebooks
amplify the good work - rappler

40. Python
The People’s Programming
Language

41. Thank you!
Carol Willing
@willingcarol on Twitter
willingc everywhere else

42. Cesar A. Hidalgo http://www.chidalgo.com/
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/static/pdf/atlas/AtlasOfEconomicComplexity_Part_II.pdf
http://www.kentarotoyama.org/profile/default.htm
Geek Heresy http://geekheresy.org/ Geek Heresy book photo http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781610395281
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, The Data Driven Society, Scientific American, October 2013.
Confirmation of general relativity on large scales from weak lensing and galaxy velocities1 Reinabelle Reyes1, Nature 464, 256-258 (11 March
2010) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7286/full/nature08857.html
http://networkx.github.io/documentation/latest/examples/drawing/edge_colormap.html
Write/Speak/Code http://www.writespeakcode.com/
Project Jupyter try.jupyter.org jupyter.org
Python Software Foundation python.org https://www.python.org/psf/
Jollibee photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/arne/7252069146/in/gallery-124064140@N08-72157664096580256/
Superheroes graphic: pycon.python.ph happygaraje.com
EDSA traffic photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/storm-crypt/411427521/in/gallery-124064140@N08-72157664096580256/