• Feature freeze for Go 1.7 announced • Binary-only packages now allowed in Go • Peter Bourgon updates his "Go Best Practices" talk from 2014 to 2016 • Discussion of impostor syndrome and code review by Brad and Andrew • Upcoming GopherCon presentation on Gopher data science by Daniel Whitenack • GAFKA: a Go tool suite for managing KAFKA clusters • ChatOps and microservices with Micro and ChatOps bots • UNIK: compiling apps into unikernels • Micro framework as an ecosystem for microservices • Security benefits of unikernels (reduced attack surface) • Benefits and limitations of unikernels • Data science definition and process • Industry applications and drivers behind data science advancements (commerce, advertising) • Use cases for data science in business processes and engineering • Open-source tools and frameworks for data science (R, Python, etc.) • Future replacements for current data science tools in the Go language • Shift in community towards accepting multiple languages for data science tasks • Discussion of various programming languages used in data science, including R, Python, JavaScript, Go, and Java Scala • Introduction of Pachyderm as an interesting project for big data workflows • Exploration of Go libraries for data science, such as Gonum and Gota • Portability of Python libraries to Go for data processing tasks • Efficiency of writing custom code in Go versus relying on dependencies • Discussion of the "A little copying is better than a little dependency" mindset in Go development • Advice on getting started with data science in Go • Importance of mindset when approaching data science in Go • Resources for learning data science in Go (Peter's resources, Dave Cheney's) • Jupyter kernel for Go and interactive data exploration • Existing projects that demonstrate data science capabilities in Go (InfluxDB, Pachyderm) • Live demo of data science process using only Go at GopherCon • Go notebooks and interactivity with Jupyter • Brief overview of Jupyter and its ecosystem • Jupyter notebook and Go kernel • Carlisia's experience setting up Jupyter and using the Go kernel for note-taking and development • Discussion of Vim Go and Neovim as tools for improving development workflow • Daniel Whitenack mentions Vim Go and Neovim, and thanks Fatih Arslan for his work on these projects • Erik St. Martin talks about Nvim and its benefits over regular Vim • Promoting GopherCon and encouraging listeners to attend and participate in panels with speakers