A flamingo peeking through the plants. National Aviary, Pittsburgh, PA. Photo by Adam Custer. I attended PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 16–18, 2025. As my first Python conference, I wanted to document the most interesting things I learned. Why a statistician goes to PyCon? It might seem odd for a statistician to focus on any particular programming language. But I’m not your typical statistician. As Dijkstra …