https://nanx.me/tags/pittsburgh/ Recent content in Pittsburgh on Nan Xiao | 肖楠 Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:15:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/my-first-pycon-experience/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:15:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/my-first-pycon-experience/ A flamingo peeking through the plants. National Aviary, Pittsburgh, PA. Photo by Adam Custer. I attended PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 16–18, 2025. As my first Python conference, I wanted to document the most interesting things I learned. Why a statistician goes to PyCon? It might seem odd for a statistician to focus on any particular programming language. But I’m not your typical statistician. As Dijkstra said: