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PyCon 2015
Below is a short description of the tutorials that I enjoyed most:
Pandas
Brandon Rhodes gave a great tutorial on Pandas. You can find his materials here (including examples that are tailored for newbies) and a video of his talk here. Brandon is probably the best programming teacher that I've ever had, so I highly recommend attending any of his future talks. Even if you think you know Pandas, you'll surely learn lots of tricks that can help you speed up your code.
Web Scrapping
This was my first hands-on experience with web scrapping. Jackie Kazil and Sisi Wei were extremely helpful with this. Their materials are here (no video available).
Shorter Tutorials
Chris Weigl gave an inspiring talk on how to use satellite mapping in Python (video here). Michelle Fullwood used machine learning in Python to build a linguistic map of Singapore (video here). Titus Brown gave a nice talk on how Python can be used to interpret your genome (video here, along with a link to materials below the video).
Kudos to all the people above for sharing their knowledge!