The Central Ohio Python User's Group

About Us

We are a friendly and enthusiastic group of Central Ohio Pythonistas. We meet most Thursday evenings for informal dojos, occasionally for lunch on various days of the week, and have a monthly meeting usually on the last Monday of the month. To have lunch at your favorite place, announce the time and place on the mailing list.

After our monthly meetings we like to adjourn to some nearby eatery to enjoy good food, good drinks, and good conversation.

Visit us on meetup.com

We have code on our github repository, especially of challenges where people solved problems using Python in very different ways.

Monthly Meetings

Usually on last Monday of each month.

  • 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm: eat, socialize
  • 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm: announcements and introductions then presentations
  • 8:00 pm hard stop for presentations
  • 8:00 pm adjourn to some nearby eatery

Looking for Presenters

We are looking for presenters. What presentation would you like to give? Please tell us here in this form.

Weekly Dojos

We meet most Thursday evenings:

  • from around 6pm
  • at The Little Grand
  • 710 Grandview Crossing Way, Unit 112
    Columbus, OH 43215

Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python, or just hang out. Everyone interested in Python from complete beginners, to experts, and everyone in between are welcome to the Dojos. Bring your Python questions and problems. Digressions from Python are common.

The Little Grand
710 Grandview Crossing Way, Unit 112
Columbus, OH 43215
https://thelittlegrandmarket.com/visit/
map

  • Please bring your laptop and power supply. Power strips will be available.

January Monthly Meeting

January 27, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

New Location!!!

Physical Meeting

CGI has graciously offered to host our meeting at their office.

CGI Office, 570 Polaris Parkway, Suite 200,
Westerville, OH 43082

We meet in person at CGI for the socializing and schmoozing, announcements, and presentation(s).

We have 2 talks for this meeting:

Jessica Woods will be presenting a talk on: "Flask API for Ontological & Semantic Large Language Model with ChromaDB". This talk involves using AI models to process natural language. Resources:

Description and source code https://github.com/JessicaWoods03/Furby_Hack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributional_semantics
https://github.com/ericdill/semantic-search
https://medium.com/@raisomya360/building-a-robust-flask-api-with-custom-request-validation-for-ai-model-integration-ddaed7151555
https://realpython.com/chromadb-vector-database/
https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-semantic-search-engine-with-bert-and-gpt-38e4be9c5a75
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_database
Chroma Database

John Lairson will be presenting a talk on SQLGlot a "no-dependency SQL parser, transpiler, optimizer, and engine. It can be used to format SQL or translate between 24 different dialects"

We meet on the last Monday of most months. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a Python topic, please contact John Cassidy.

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