Speaker Profile: Lorena Mesa (@loooorenanicole)
Political analyst turned coder, Lorena Mesa works as a platform software engineer at Sprout Social and is a co-organizer for PyLadies Chicago. Lorena loves to make meaning out of data, asking big questions and using her code to build models to derive meaning from it. Part Star Wars fanatic but mostly a Trekkie, Lorena abides by the motto to “live long and prosper”.
Lorena will be presenting “Using Python to hack my commute home” on Sunday at 1PM. Google Maps. Apple Maps. Endless map apps. Why don’t any of these speak to me as a Chicagoian commuting home? Easy - they don’t know how I like to travel or where I want to go. Solution? Let’s use Python to hack on data to find my own way home. We’ll explore APIs to find data, collect our own, and analyze it with PyLab. Time to put on our thinking caps and hack our way to a better commute home.
Sponsor Profile: Tennessee Data Commons (@tndatacommons)
Tennessee Data Commons provides a digital mentorship platform to support individual goals in ways that strengthen the community at large. We’re using social psychology, behavioral economics, and user-centered design principles to help people set goals and discover behaviors that help them succeed.