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All PyCon 2023 talks sorted by the view count

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Why the meaningless "+" in "+4k" etc., instead of the ">4k" that makes sense? Or "4k+".

It's interesting that number 1 has more than 5 times the views of number 2; must have been linked somewhere popular. Also interesting that at least two of the top 10 are about Rust or Rust libraries.

There are a lot more PyCons than just US and AU, too, some of which will have talks with a lot of views: https://pycon.org/#national-conferences

>It's interesting that number 1 has more than 5 times the views of number 2; must have been linked somewhere popular.

Is their a virtuous cycle in searching "pycon" in YouTube?

The first video is actually very informative. Apart from that I am damn sure it is popular because of the YouTube thumbnail.

You can say it. The boobs in the thumbnail are definitely click bait (inb4 someone thinks I'm saying something about the lady's intentions, just click bait in terms of baiting clicks), and the stats are there to back it up. Unless someone has another reason why it has as much views as the next 7 videos combined.

> Unless someone has another reason why it has as much views as the next 7 videos combined.

WebAssembly is more interesting/hyped to the general programming population than Python?

Probably a lot of JavaScript/frontend people have at least a passing interest in WebAssembly, while maybe not caring so much about Python.

I love how that very same page has correct "most watched talks across 100+ software engineering conferences" to compare to

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In case someone doesn't understand the normal convention: "+X" is "additional X", while "X+" means "more than X". And lately people keep misusing them

> In case someone doesn't understand the normal convention: "+X" is "additional X", while "X+" means "more than X". And lately people keep misusing them

Tad embarrassing perhaps, but I'm 30+ years old, been programming since I was ~15 and I've never heard about this convention before. Maybe it's a locale thing, or is it universal?

Edit: Not sure why my question is being downvoted? Here is a example sign from Spain: https://imgur.com/a/YTODbtD

It says "2+" even though the meaning they're trying to get across is "2 or more", which means they're not following that convention of "X+" meaning "more than X"

So at least there is one agency, in one country, who also haven't heard about this convention. Hence my question, as it doesn't seem, from my perspective, to be universal.

I believe you're being downvoted because you missed the point of the comment you're replying to, which is not (necessarily) trying to imply the convention is that X+ means exactly "more than X" (i.e. >X). You're right that "X or more" (>= X) is an acceptable interpretation. This is not what the comment is nitpicking.

The page we're discussing lists PyCon talks next to the number of viewers. It writes "X or more viewers" as +X; this does not follow any variant of this "convention". It's as if you wrote that you are +30 years old, instead of 30+. The problem is the placement of the +. That's just weird/incorrect.

Update: it seem they fixed the page so that it reads "X+ views" instead of "+X views". Maybe they read this hackernews comment chain!

I wasn't aware of the convention. Thanks for pointing it out, I've updated the list.

> Keynote Speaker - Ned Batchelder

I don't get why conferences do this. I understand that it is supposed to be an honor to be "Keynote" but it says literally nothing about what the talk is. I end up just skipping over these because I have no information on the topic of the talk.

I think it's usually because they don't get the talk title until later in the organisation (Keynotes are usually invited and don't send a proposal)

I can see that for in planning and scheduling. But at least by the video one would hope that a descriptive title could be available. If not by the time of the talk for those considering watching it live.

I think if the page included descriptions of the videos (from YT) it would have been much better.

I like to compare personal interests to the average.

I like the #96 talk by Michał Gałka about "Creating USB gadgets with Python" [1]

BTW I am tired of GIL discussions since two decades ago, so I skip everything that talks about it except if there is a solution. I think in Python more like a practical programming language that specific limitations in current implementations. Regarding GIL I think we have waste much more time talking about it than the time required for the solution.

I continue with my preferences list, all below #100 in the ranking:

The Samweli Mwakisambwe talk about "Using Python and PyQgis to make cool maps" [2] (#105) seems very interesting to play with maps when you don't want to be an expert on them.

Jimmy Lai (#115), Python Linters at Scale (I work in cybersecurity) [3]

Gajendra Deshpande (#132) Three Musketeers: Sherlock Holmes, Mathematics and Python [4]

"Code Review of Senior Python Engineers (#161) by Keith Yang [5].

Detecting Wireless Jammers and Hackers with JADE by Caner Kilinc [6].

Interactive Lectures and Active Learning with Python in Scientific by Jonas Lindemann [7].

[Gently] Chasing birds with code by Chayim Kirshen and Meir Shpilraien [8]

Charlas - Marlene Marchena: Mi viaje personal enseñando programación a alumnos neurodivergentes [9]

Débora Azevedo: Cooperación internacional en la comunidad de Python [10] [11]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34XnnAFO8O0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py93-Z8BUBY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygZwfVKkpfk

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyFFj1_lu_s

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63CL3ogzpM

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjiq-4SXOyE

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaF5PrheDWQ

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BisOzixucPU

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmIKk1wGSvE

[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMe1cPyJ4hE

[11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEqH6Hv4NLk

Thank you for posting this list. The linked list is large and overwhelming so I mostly stayed to what I know. It's great to see someone else's perspective.

That USB talk looks really interesting, thank you!

Edit: Actually they all look interesting, thanks!

I was at PyCon AU (my first one and a wonderful time) and I'm surprised to see "Digital Rights / Digital Wrongs" so far down the list! Possibly a relatively niche topic for the audience but I found it a gripping and massively informative watch, especially for anyone following the work of orgs like the EFF.

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