__add__(self, Brookz) # Python meetup!
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This is the first PyAmsterdam meetup of 2020 together kindly hosted by
Brookz [2]. No time to hesitate and get back together with your python
friends again!

Did learn about something cool, want to share what you have created
or simply share the struggle with your current project? NOW is the
time! We would like to include some lightning talks (5min talk) to
this event. You do not need any slides or laptop (though it helps).
Just sing up at the event!


About Brookz
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Brookz is the largest acquisition and financing platform in the
Netherlands which is 100% independent and since 2007 brings
entrepreneurs, investors, financiers and advisors in direct contact
with each other.


Schedule
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| 18:00 | Welcome            |
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| 18:30 | First talk: <TBA>  |
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| 19:00 | Second talk: <TBA> |
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| 19:30 | Small break        |
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| 19:40 | Lightning talks?   |
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| 20:10 | Networking         |
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| 21:00 | Closing time       |
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Python in digital humanities research
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About Cornelis van Lit [3]: Dr. Cornelis van Lit is a postdoctoral
researcher at Utrecht University. His main expertise lies in Islamic
philosophy, which is what his first book is about, entitled The World
of Image in Islamic Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). He
recently wrote Among Digitized Manuscripts published by Brill in
hardback and electronic open access. It is a handbook introducing a
conceptual and practical toolbox for working with digital photos of
text materials, starting with the very basics assuming no prior
computer skills and ending with explaining automated image analysis
using Python and OpenCV. For more information see www.lwcvl.com/Among
Van Lit has been working to introduce computer-supported solutions
into Islamic studies for a number of years through his online magazine
The Digital Orientalist, which now has a team of eight editors. He
currently aims to return in his research to medieval philosophy,
investigating the discussions of Ibn Arabi (d. 1231) and his
commentators on the imagination. He is also a friar of the Order of
Preachers.


Abstract
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How did a monk who studies ancient texts saved in medieval manuscripts
end up using Python in his work? The short answer is: technology has
become too easy to pass up on the opportunity. As it turns out, to get
meaningful results, even for advanced Humanities research, you do not
need to work in a CS department. I will start off by giving four
examples. First I use Python with OpenCV to identify the physical
shape of a manuscript. I explain how I ran this over thousands of
manuscripts, extracting information relevant for understanding
premodern book making. Then I discuss my inroads in layout analysis,
resulting in what is akin to an x-ray of a manuscript. In both
examples I will point out how OpenCV was not built for this, but is
performant enough to do the job even on our personal machines. We then
switch to a different use case: creating a timeline showing which
points in time a certain topic was very popular to discuss
(specifically, the topic is the Hadith collection of al-Bukhari). I
close with a project I am currently working on: creating a rudimentary
OCR pipeline for modern Arabic printed materials. I will finish with a
brief explanation of the difficulty of navigating the two worlds: the
digital world of developers and the paper world of the Humanities and
give some pointers how you as developers could be part of this
discussion.


Exploring pytest capabilties
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About Santiago Fraire Willemoes (@santiwilly [4], GH/Woile [5]): I'm
an argentinian python developer currently living and working in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands for KPN. I contribute to open source
project when possible, I've contributed to django rest framework,
starlette, uvicorn, and some tools of my own.

My previous presentations can be found here [6]


Abstract
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My intention with this talk is to help people understand how tests can
help us write better code and how it can guide our designs. In this
opportunity I'll show how to do this using pytest, and get most of its
power.


Links
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[1] https://footnote.org

[2] https://www.brookz.nl

[3] http://lwcvl.com

[4] https://twitter.com/santiwilly

[5] https://github.com/Woile/

[6]
    https://github.com/Woile?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=presen
    tation