I am happy to share with you all some details of our successful event – On Sunday Dec 16, Chang She conducted a Pandas workshop hosted by Pivotal Labs at NYC. Kick-started a little past 10 AM, he wound his way through the Pandas data structures for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D, data, DataFrame components and indexing, accessing data via files and DB’s, broadcasting and some basic statistical computations.

It was not all theory, as all the participants were following and experimenting on their laptops, in part, thanks to Asheesh’s excellent laptop setup guide, enabling attendees to come with configured machines, making it easier to get going with Pandas. They worked on the small tasks/exercises that Chang gave out as the session progressed.

Post lunch, it was sprint time! Very exciting to see the attendees pored over their machines, trying to tackle Pandas bugs and using a list of bitesize bugs prepared by Asheesh. We worked in small groups of 2 or even 3 people with Chang going around each group to help and guide them, ably aided by Asheesh. The sprint went on till evening, when finally at 05:45pm, Pivotal Labs had to ask us to leave.

Pictures speak a thousand words: 

Here are some statistics, for those that love numbers:

This entire event would not have been possible without our generous sponsors. A huge Thank you to:

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