Talk Python To Me

By: Michael Kennedy
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  • Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. We dive deep into the popular packages and software developers, data scientists, and incredible hobbyists doing amazing things with Python. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from the leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll learn about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.
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  • #495: OSMnx: Python and OpenStreetMap
    Feb 24 2025
    On this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Jeff Boeing, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California whose research spans urban planning, spatial analysis, and data science. We explore why OpenStreetMap is such a powerful source of global map data—and how Jeff’s Python library, OSMnx, makes that data easier to download, model, and visualize. Along the way, we talk about what shapes city streets around the world, how urban design influences everything from daily commutes to disaster resilience, and why turning open data into accessible tools can open up completely new ways of understanding our cities. If you’ve ever wondered how to build or analyze your own digital maps in Python, or what it takes to manage a project that transforms raw geographic data into meaningful research, you won’t want to miss this conversation. Episode sponsors Posit Podcast Later Talk Python Courses Links from the show City Street Orientations World: geoffboeing.com OSMnx Documentation: readthedocs.io OSMnx GitHub: github.com OpenStreetMap: openstreetmap.org Open Database License: opendatacommons.org ID Editor (Web Editor): wiki.openstreetmap.org Planet OSM: planet.openstreetmap.org Overpass API: wiki.openstreetmap.org GeoPandas: geopandas.org NetworkX: networkx.org Shapely: shapely.readthedocs.io Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm --- Stay in touch with us --- Subscribe to Talk Python on YouTube: youtube.com Talk Python on Bluesky: @talkpython.fm at bsky.app Talk Python on Mastodon: talkpython Michael on Bluesky: @mkennedy.codes at bsky.app Michael on Mastodon: mkennedy
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • #494: Update on Flet: Python + Flutter UIs
    Feb 21 2025
    As Python developers, we're incredibly lucky to have over half a million packages that we can use to build our applications with over at PyPI. However, when it comes to choosing a UI framework, the options get narrowed down very quickly. Intersect those choices with the ones that work on mobile, and you have a very short list. Flutter is a UI framework for building desktop and mobile applications, and is in fact the one that we used to build the Talk Python courses app, you'd find at talkpython.fm/apps. That's why I'm so excited about Flet. Flet is a Python UI framework that is distributed and executed on the Flutter framework, making it possible to build mobile apps and desktop apps with Python. We have Feodor Fitsner back on the show after he launched his project a couple years ago to give us an update on how close they are to a full featured mobile app framework in Python. Episode sponsors Posit Podcast Later Talk Python Courses Links from the show Flet: flet.dev Flet on Github: github.com Packaging apps with Flet: flet.dev/docs/publish Flutter: flutter.dev React vs. Flutter: trends.stackoverflow.co Kivy: kivy.org Beeware: beeware.org Mobile forge from Beeware: github.com The list of built-in binary wheels: flet.dev/docs/publish/android#binary-python-packages Difference between dynamic and static Flet web apps: flet.dev/docs/publish/web Integrating Flutter packages: flet.dev/docs/extend/integrating-existing-flutter-packages serious_python: pub.dev/packages/serious_python Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm --- Stay in touch with us --- Subscribe to Talk Python on YouTube: youtube.com Talk Python on Bluesky: @talkpython.fm at bsky.app Talk Python on Mastodon: talkpython Michael on Bluesky: @mkennedy.codes at bsky.app Michael on Mastodon: mkennedy
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    1 hr
  • #493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing
    Feb 9 2025
    In this episode, I'm joined by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to explore Quarto, an open-source tool revolutionizing technical publishing. We discuss how Quarto empowers users to seamlessly transform Jupyter notebooks into polished reports, dashboards, e-books, websites, and more. JJ shares his journey from creating RStudio to developing Quarto as a versatile, multi-language tool, while Carlos delves into its roots in reproducibility and the challenges of academic publishing. Don't miss this deep dive into a tool that's shaping the future of data-driven storytelling! Episode sponsors Talk Python Courses Podcast Later Links from the show JJ Allaire JJ on LinkedIn: linkedin.com JJ on GitHub: github.com Carlos Scheidegger Personal site: cscheid.net Mastodon: @scheidegger Fast AI: fast.ai nbdev: nbdev.fast.ai nbsanity - Share Notebooks as Polished Web Pages in Seconds: answer.ai Pandoc: pandoc.org Observable: github.com Quarto Pub: quartopub.com Deno: deno.com Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net Typst: typst.app Github Actions for Quarto: github.com Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm --- Stay in touch with us --- Subscribe to Talk Python on YouTube: youtube.com Talk Python on Bluesky: @talkpython.fm at bsky.app Talk Python on Mastodon: talkpython Michael on Bluesky: @mkennedy.codes at bsky.app Michael on Mastodon: mkennedy
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    1 hr and 5 mins

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