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Installing the numpy module in PyPy

Working on the High Performance Python book (mailing list here for our occasional announces) I’ve reinstalled PyPy a couple of times, each time I forget how to install the numpy module. Note that PyPy’s numpy is different and much smaller than CPython’s numpy. It does however work for smaller problems if you just need some […]
11 years ago

PyData London (Feb 21-23 2014)

PyData is coming to London, this’ll be the first PyData in Europe. The conference will focus on Python for Data Analytics, quite like SciPy and EuroSciPy but with a bit more of a focus on business rather than science (but only a bit, I rather like the science). 170 videos from past conferences are available […]
11 years ago

Progress on High Performance Python book

I figured a short update was in order. Micha (@mynameisfiber, github) and I are progressing on our High Performance Python book, we have a proposed chapter outline below and hope to have a rough cut of some early chapters for January. The book should be finalised ‘earlier in 2014’ though we won’t be drawn on […]
11 years ago

“Introducing Python for Data Science” talk at SkillsMatter

On Wednesday Bart and I spoke at SkillsMatter to 75 Pythonistas with an Introduction to Data Science using Python. A video of the 4 talks is now online. We covered: High Performance Python (profiling, line_profiler, memory_profiler, Cython, Numba) Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (scikit-learn for brand detection) – based on my longer talk at […]
11 years ago

What confusion leads from self driving vehicles and their talking to each other?

This is a light follow-up from my “Do self driving cars make the courier redundant?”  post from January. I’m wondering which first- and second-order effects occur from self-driving cars talking to each other. Let’s assume they can self-drive and self-park and that they have some ability to communicate with each other. Noting their speed and […]
11 years ago

Future Cities Hackathon (@ds_ldn) Oct 2013 on Parking Usage Inefficiencies

On Saturday six of us attended the Future Cities Hackathon organised by Carlos and DataScienceLondon (@ds_ldn). I counted about 100 people in the audience (see lots of photos, original meetup thread), from asking around there seemed to be a very diverse skill set (Python and R as expected, lots of Java/C, Excel and other tools). […]
11 years ago

PyConUK 2013

I’m just finishing with PyConUK, it has been a fun 3 days (and the sprints carry on tomorrow). Yesterday I presented a lightly tweaked version of my Brand Disambiguation with scikit-learn talk on natural language processing for social media processing. I had 65 people in the room (cripes!), 2/3 had used ML or NLP for […]
11 years ago

Writing a High Performance Python book

I’m terribly excited to announce that I’m co-authoring an O’Reilly book on High Performance Python, to be published next year. My co-author is the talented Micha Gorelick (github @mynameisfiber) of bit.ly, he’s already written a few chapters, I’ll be merging an updated version of my older eBook and adding content based on past tutorials (PyCon […]
11 years ago

EuroSciPy 2013 write-up

The conference is over, tomorrow I’m sticking around to Sprint on scikit-learn. As last year it has been a lot of fun to catch up with colleagues out here in Brussels. Here’s Logilab’s write-up. Yesterday I spoke on Building an Open Source Data Science company. Topics included how companies benefit from open sourcing their tools, […]
11 years ago