Events

Parallel Processing with Python

Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

Modern computers have a CPU with multiple cores (usually between 4-8). Come learn how to take advantage of them to parallelize and speed up your code. We’ll show you how to structure your code so you can parallelize it in 5 lines or less. We will also cover some theory, a few practical considerations along […]

Web Scraping with Python

Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

This workshop will provide an overview of how to scrape data from html pages and website APIs using Python. This will mostly be accomplished using the requests, beautifulsoup, retry modules and the browser developer tools. The workshop is intended for users with basic Python knowledge. Anaconda Python 3.5 will be used.