We're going to be WEIRD, and we want to celebrate that fact with unusual keynoters and happenings! We are on for February 22nd and 23rd, 2014 at the Nashville School of Law. We will have have three talk tracks, open and closing keynotes, lightning talks, and a young coders class. A little southern hospitality will provide breakfast, lunch, and snacks onsite with vegetarian options available.

Keynote
Talk
Workshop
Social
Event Related

Saturday, 22nd February 2014

Auditorium 100 200 400
09:00

Keynote

Leon Gersing

09:00
11:00

Using IPython Notebook to analyze Django model data

Adam Haney

Building a salt-based development infrastructure

Tim O'Guin

Semantic Search and Recommendation with Solr and SciPy

John Berryman

Pyramid Development in a Nutshell

Tres Seaver

11:00
11:55

Open Sourcing Mental Illness

Edward Finkler

Building rich web apps with ember.js and django

Toran Billups

Test-driven Django Development

Kevin Harvey

11:55
13:20

Understanding and Augmenting Reality with Python

Eric Floehr

When Firefox Face-plants: Socorro, the Mozilla Crash Reporter

K Lars Lohn

13:20
13:35

Building and breaking a Python sandbox

Jessica McKellar

See Docs Run. Run, Docs, Run!

Catherine Devlin

13:35
14:15

Documentation is King

Kenneth Reitz

Amazon Redshift: What You Need To Know

Brian Dailey

Testing: It's Not Just For Your Code

Christopher Laco

JavaScript all the Things

Jacques Woodcock

14:15
15:15

Going beyond the Django ORM limitations with Postgres

Craig Kerstiens

Bayesian Statistical Analysis with PyMC

Chris Fonnesbeck

Developing Flask Extensions

Rachel Sanders

A Gentle intro to the Go programming language

Fred Alger

15:15
16:00

Cryptography

Alexander Gaynor

16:00

Sunday, 23rd February 2014

400 100 200 Auditorium
09:00

PyCharm in 60 Minutes

T. Scot Clausing

09:00
09:55

UX: How to

Laurie Kalmanson

PRISM as a Service: Not Subject to American Law

Lynn Root

Why Twitter Is All the Rage: A Data Miner's Perspective

Matthew Russell

Planting Open Source Seeds

Kenneth Reitz

09:55
11:05

A Nice API for Postgres

Chad Whitacre

To the Moon and Back: Taking the Leap Towards Solving Big Problems

Julia Elman

Python for Music Nerds: Fun With the Echo Nest API

Josh Mock

Postgres Performance for Humans

Craig Kerstiens

11:05
12:00

Statistical Data Analysis in Python

Chris Fonnesbeck

12:00
12:35

Systematic Bias & The Software Developer

Brian Dailey

Supporting the Community: Helping to build Nashville's Thriving Dev Community

Jacques Woodcock

12:35
12:50

A Beginner's Guide to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn

Sarah Guido

12:50
13:25

Walking the Line: A Beginner's Tightrope Trek From GIS to Python

Jason Haley

Substance D: Build Civilized Web Applications

Chris McDonough

lambda and the Nature of Data

Jason Orendorff

13:25
14:35

Keynote

Jessica McKellar

14:35