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Data science, Python

Looking back on 2018, looking to 2019

So last year was a damned hard year – ignoring Brexit and other international foolishness, on a personal level (without going in to details) by mid-year I was emotionally wiped out. A collection of health issues between family and friends kept rearing their ugly heads and over time I ran very low of emotionally supportive […]
6 years ago
Data science, pydata

“On the Diagramatic Diagnosis of Data” at BudapestBI 2018

A couple of days back I spoke on using diagrams (matplotlib, seaborn, pandas profiling) to diagnose data during the exploratory data analysis phase. I also introduced my new tool discover_feature_relationships which helps prioritise which features to investigate in a new dataset by identifying pairs of features that have some sort of ‘interesting’ relationship. We finished […]
6 years ago
Data science, pydata

On helping to open the inaugural PyDataPrague meetup

A couple of weeks back I had the wonderful opportunity to open the PyDataPrague meetup – this is the second meetup I’ve opened after our PyDataLondon started back in 2014. The core organisers Ondřej Kokeš, Jakub Urban and Jan Pipek asked me to give two short talks on: Introducing NumFOCUS (video for both of my […]
6 years ago
pydata

PyConUK 2018

Last weekend we had another fine PyConUK (2018) conference. Each year the conference grows, the Django Girls group had 70 or so women learning Django (and, often, Python for the first time). The kids hack day was a great success. The Pythonic-hardware demo session was fun. Each year PyConUK encourages first-time speakers so we had […]
6 years ago
Data science, pydata, Python

On the growth of our PyDataLondon community

I haven’t spoken on our PyDataLondon meetup community in a while so I figure a few numbers are due. We’re now at an incredible 7,800 members and just this month we had 200 members in the room at AHL’s new venue. We’re a volunteer run community – you’ll see the list of our brilliant volunteers […]
6 years ago
Data science, pydata, Python

Keynote at EuroPython 2018 on “Citizen Science”

I’ve just had the privilege of giving my first keynote at EuroPython (and my second keynote this year), I’ve just spoken on “Citizen Science”. I gave a talk aimed at engineers showing examples of projects around healthcare and humanitarian topics using Python that make the world a better place. The main point was “gather your […]
6 years ago