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First PyDataLondon meetup done, preparing the second

Last night we ran our first PyDataLondon meetup (@PyDataLondon). We had 80 data-focused Pythonistas in the room, co-organiser Emlyn lead the talks followed by a great set of Lightning Talks. Pivotal provided a cool venue (thanks Ian Huston!) with lovely pizza and beer in central Shoreditch – we’re much obliged to you. This was a […]
11 years ago

New High Performance Python chapters online & teaching a 2 day course on HPC

The last month has been crazy busy, not least because I got to run my first High Performance Python 2 day tutorial at a university. I was out in Aalborg University teaching a PhD group, we covered four blocks: Profiling (CPU and RAM) Compilers and JITs Multi-core and distributed Using less RAM, storage systems and […]
11 years ago

PyDataLondon Meetup Number 1 (June – JS, NLP, Kinects)

Our first PyData London Meetup will occur on June 3rd at Pivotal in Shoreditch. At our first night we’ll have: Pete Passaro talking on javascript and natural language processing using Python Emlyn Clay on Matlab and Python for science Chipp Jansen on auto-sculpting with a Kinect Ian Huston on Pivotal’s open source tools (I had […]
11 years ago

2nd Early Release of High Performance Python (we added a chapter)

Here’s a quick book update – we just released a second Early Release of High Performance Python which adds a chapter on lists, tuples, dictionaries and sets. This is available to anyone who has bought it already (login into O’Reilly to get the update). Shortly we’ll follow with chapters on Matrices and the Multiprocessing module. […]
11 years ago

High Performance Book almost ready for Early Release preview

Our first few chapters of High Performance Python are nearly ready for the Early Release on O’Reilly’s platform, we’ll be releasing: Understanding Performance Python (an overview of the virtual machine and modern PC hardware) Profiling Python Code (for CPU and RAM profiling, lots of options) Pure Python (generators, the guts of dicts and the like) […]
11 years ago

PyPy commercial support now available by core devs

I meant to note this a week or so back – some of the core PyPy dev team (Fijal and Armin) have put together a new consultancy focused on PyPy commercial support. The move was warmly received on reddit. They aim to provide training, tuning and custom work and have a team in various bits […]
11 years ago

PyDataLondon 2014 Write-up

We’ve just drawn PyDataLondon 2014 to a close, it has been a wonderfully successful weekend. The growth of Python’s use for data science in the last few years here in the UK is pretty phenomenal. Many thanks to Continuum Analytics and NumFocus for backing and organising the PyData conferences. “Start of the week after busy […]
11 years ago

High Performance Python at PyDataLondon 2014

Yesterday I spoke on The High Performance Python Landscape at PyDataLondon 2014 (our first PyData outside of the USA – see my write-up). I was blessed with a full room and interesting questions. With Micha I’m authoring a High Performance Python book with O’Reilly (email list for early access) and I took the topics from […]
11 years ago

PyData London Abstracts Announced

I’m very pleased to say that the talks and tutorials are public now, listed on the Abstracts page, this is the first draft of the acceptances so maybe there will be some changes but we’re treating it as ‘mostly done’. The schedule will follow later (the conference is backed by a non-profit and the organisation […]
11 years ago

PyData London conference keynotes and topics coming together

We’ve got our keynoters for PyData London (Feb Fri 21- Sun 23): Gael Varoquaux (INRIA) with “Building a Cutting-Edge Data Processing Environment on a Budget” Felix Fernandez (Deutsche Börse) with “Python in the Financial Industry: The Universal Tool for End-to-End Development” Gael is a core committer for scikit-learn and Felix is the Business CIO for […]
11 years ago