Archives of Data science

Convert London Oyster (Travel) PDFs to Pandas DataFrames

As a part of analysing Emily’s allergic rhinitis we want to test whether using the London Underground (notoriously dirty!) increases the likelihood of sneezing. The “black snot” phenomenon is well known to Londoners, possibly the particulates (from oil and metal) cause irritation. You can get updates via our allergic rhinitis analysis mailing list (very very […]
8 years ago

PyDataLondon 2016 Call for Proposals Open

Our Call for Proposals for PyDataLondon 2016 (May 6-8) is open until approx. end of February (5ish weeks), you need to get your submission in soon! If you want to sponsor to talk with 330 cutting edge data scientists – you’d better hurry, we’ve already started signing deals. In the CfP we’re looking for: Stories […]
8 years ago

Data Scientist Jobs in London

Back in January 2015 I announced my Data Science Jobs UK email list. This has grown nicely, several hundred data scientists have joined it and are interested in (mostly) Python related jobs around London with an even split between contract and permanent roles. If you sign-up to the mailing list you’ll get: 1-2 plain-ASCII mails […]
8 years ago

Announcing PyDataLondon 2016 (May 6-8th)

We’re very happy to announce that Bloomberg will host us a second time for PyDataLondon 2016 (our 3rd annual conference). We’ll run the conference over May 6-8th (a tutorial day and 2 conference days as last time) with approximately 330 people in attendance. The location is Central London – near Bank underground station and London […]
8 years ago

“Data Science Delivered” (a collection of notes on getting stuff shipped)

Over the last year I’ve given a collection of keynotes and talks around shipping and supporting data science products with Python. I’ve started to gather up my notes into a document – they’re hosted on github as Data Science Delivered, currently its around 5 pages of A4. I put the rough form together after my […]
8 years ago

“Featherweight” data science API to publish Python functions on the web

One of the challenges I’ve encountered when coaching data science teams in smaller organisations is the difficulty of publishing proof-of-concept data science products via web calls, when the team doesn’t know anything about web programming. My preference is to use Flask (and flask-restful and maybe Swagger docs) but that’s an awful lot of learning to […]
8 years ago

Opening Plenary at BudapestBI Forum 2015

I’ve just given my final talk for the year – I’m “at my other home” in Budapest (I’m half-Hungarian) and have had the honour of opening Bence and team’s BudapestBI Forum 2015. This conference has both an open-source-day and (tomorrow) an enterprise-day, all around analytics and with lots of Python and R. This talk is […]
9 years ago

“Ship Data Science Products!” at PyConUK2015

PyConUK2015 is over, it was another year of happy Pythonistic hobbitness in Coventry. I spoke on shipping data science products on the new Science track (organised by Sarah): It was nice to hear some polite-abuse being thrown at folk stuck on Python 2.x reminding them that it is high time to upgrade to Python 3. […]
9 years ago