Python

My favorite PyCon talk comes from, who else, Raymond Hettinger at PyCon US 2013 and is titled Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python.

I had been a Python developer for maybe a year-and-half at this point and was starting to grok some more advanced concepts. But, I remember walking out of that talk thinking about how excited Raymond was about Python and how to make Python code beautiful. I'm sure I've forgotten a few, but most everything I learned about in that talk (like context managers, looping over dictionary key/value pairs, counting with dictionaries, and decorators) have all really stuck with me and influenced how I tackle problems.

Another one of my favorite conference talks comes from DjangoCon 2012. It's a keynote in the DjangoCon tradition of "Why I Hate Django". This one is called Why I Think Django Is Presently on a Collision Course with Extinction by Geoff Schmidt, one of the co-creators of Meteor.

This was my first DjangoCon and my first "Why I Hate Django" talk.

Some I have enjoyed and learned from are:

• Joel Grus - Learning Data Science Using Functional Python
• Joel Grus - I don't like notebooks
• Matthew Seal - Notebooks as Functions with Papermill

I should also call out the pyvideo link on the new and improved sidebard. pyvideo is a great place to find aggregated videos from all sorts of Python related conferences from all over the world.