Name: The Power of Code for Social Impact by O'Reilly Programming
Duration: 3 min 57 s
Description: Social innovation and open source make a powerful pair to impact the world.

Nathan Yergler, Principal Engineer at Eventbrite, talks about why Django is a premiere Python web framework.

Django Today

Rupa Dachere, Founder of CodeChix, and I had a chance to talk programming and open source community culture at OSCON 2013. She brings up some great points about the specific problems that arise for women, talks about why she brought CodeChix to life, and what we can all do to make the programming community more diverse.

The Programming Industry: Not a Woman's World - Yet

Scott Murray, Assistant Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco and Code Artist, discusses how to create interactive data visualizations. Topics covered include obtaining a clean data set, planning, consistency, accuracy, format issues, and tools you should consider.

Getting Started with Interactive Data Visualizations

Laura Klein, UX expert and consultant, discusses the need for knowing and understanding your audience before you design a product or service.    Topics covered including how to build new experiences, thinking about context, iteration, and A/B testing. She also talks about using the lean methodology to measure your impact and change behavior.

Knowing and Understanding Your Audience

Kathleen Ting talks about ZooKeeper and Sqoop

ZooKeeper and Sqoop

Joshua Marinacci tells us what he's been thinking about in terms of the future of the Internet of Things. How will the future look when every object is networked? Do we need to look to Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics?

The Internet of Things and the Laws of Robotics

Cassandra Wolff talks about figuring out when to use a CMS and how to choose which one to meet your needs.

What CMS is right for you?

Social innovation and open source make a powerful pair to impact the world.

The Power of Code for Social Impact

Neal Ford, the author of The Productive Programmer, discusses the benefits of polyglot programming and the impact it's had on software development.

Polyglot Programming

Author Harry Percival discusses how he got into TDD, why you should too, and shares some tips

The Case for Test-Driven Development

The O'Reilly Programming Podcast gives coders, programmers, developers, and app makers tips and tricks to get tasks accomplished on time and on budget, keep up with the programming language advancements, and find out what is going on in the programming community.

The Power of Code for Social Impact

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