July 2026: HDF5: The Dream and Alternatives for When you Wake Up.

HDF5 is a data format that’s especially popular in the sciences.
It is amazing at what it does.

But,

• How many meetings did you have to define the units for your stored data?
• It’s binary and everyone can read it in, but do you really need that full file structure

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

or

if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.