Plotly Virtual Hangout

Bringing Passionate Python Developers Together

January 29, 2025 @ 12PM EST

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We’re proud and lucky to have a thriving community of enthusiastic Plotly users. Plotly Community Manager Adam Schroeder started a new initiative called “Plotly Hangouts”. The casual session will occur every month and feature an interactive interview with a Plotly Community member with live audience Q&A. (Think of it as a virtual fireside chat!)

January’s session will feature Mike Purtell, a long-time Plotly community member and a key contributor to the Figure-Friday series. With extensive experience in data visualization and engineering, Mike will dive into:

  • Polars vs. Pandas: comparing two powerful libraries for data manipulation
  • Growing with Plotly visualizations: insights into creating impactful and scalable visuals
  • Using Plotly as a Test Engineer: leveraging visualization tools to enhance testing workflows

Don’t miss this chance to connect with the community and learn from Mike’s expertise!

Meet the Speakers

Adam Schroeder

Adam Schroeder is passionate about helping people learn data visualization. He has helped the community grow by building 1:1 relationships, resulting in 1.5 million downloads of Dash per month. Prior to joining the team, Adam taught Plotly Dash for over three years on YouTube as @CharmingData, whose videos have over 60,000 views per month. More recently, he was inspired to co-author “The Book of Dash” to provide another learning method for people who want to learn Dash.

Michael Purtell

Mike Purtell is a Principal Test Engineer with deep expertise in test program development, board design, and platforms like Advantest and Teradyne. He excels in PVT characterization and ATE yield correlation, leveraging his Python programming skills to craft advanced data analysis and visualization tools with libraries such as pandas, polars, matplotlib, and Plotly. A strong advocate for open-source tools, Mike is also an active member of IEEE, a reviewer for Advantest VOICE, and a former General Chair of the International Test Conference in 2014.