Adding pyntxos sprint

Author: Marc Garcia

_posts/2019-08-07-pyntxos.md

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+---
+category: "london"
+title: "Pyntxos - Scraping, visualization, optimizationa and dashboarding"
+level: "All levels"
+time: "18:00"
+rsvp_link: https://www.meetup.com/Python-Sprints/events/263261166/
+project:
+sponsor: quantum_black
+---
+
+![](https://tesis2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pintxos_bar.jpg)
+
+In this sprint we will build a new project, [Pyntxos](https://github.com/python-sprints/pyntxos).
+
+Some context... [EuroSciPy 2019](https://www.euroscipy.org/2019/) will be in September in Bilbao, Spain.
+Besides a great [program](https://www.euroscipy.org/2019/program.html) of tutorials, talks,
+[maintainers sessions](https://www.euroscipy.org/2019/maintainers.html) and sprints, the conference will
+have social activities and networking.
+
+What EuroSciPy will have different from other conferences, is that being in Bilbao, part of the networking
+will be done in their traditional [pintxo routes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincho). Pintxos are small
+portion of food, usually served on top of a small slice of break. There are streets full of pintxo restaurants,
+and what is usual is to eat a pintxo in one (with a small glass of wine or beer), socialize standing in the
+restaurant or the street for a while, and then go for the next, and keep repeating, following a route.
+
+EuroPython 2015 and 2016 were hosted in Bilbao, and pintxo routes became very popular.
+[This article](http://travel.cnn.com/san-sebastians-amazing-street-michelin-experience-736551/)
+gives some information about the importance of gastronomy in the Basque country.
+
+It would be easy to just decide the street or area where EuroSciPy participants should go, so
+is easy for people to network with other EuroSciPy participants. That would be easy, but not as fun as
+overcomplicating things and build a Python project to "optimise" and visualize pintxo routes.
+
+In this sprint we will build a new open source Python project. This will allow participants to learn
+how to contribute to open source projects, and the different components of a project:
+
+- API design
+- Source code
+- Tests
+- Documentation
+- Linting
+- Continuous Integration
+- Benchmarks
+- Packaging
+
+And at the same time, we will work and learn some open source libraries for data scraping, analysis,
+visualization, and dashboarding. Some of the proposed ones are:
+
+- [jupyter](https://jupyter.org/)
+- [ipywidgets](https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
+- [scrapy](https://scrapy.org/)
+- [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org)
+- [geopandas](http://geopandas.org/)
+- [http://geoviews.org/](http://geoviews.org/)
+- [voila](https://github.com/QuantStack/voila)
+
+Agenda
+
+- 6pm: Networking, drinks and food
+- 6:30pm: Project presentation and team creation
+- 6:45pm: Coding
+- 9pm: Group presentations
+- 9:30pm: End of the event, or pub
+
+Requirements
+
+- Bring a laption with Anaconda and git installed
+
+**Gitter channel:** [https://gitter.im/py-sprints/pyntxos](https://gitter.im/py-sprints/pyntxos)