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PyCon Lithuania 2019 and a keynote on “Citizen Science with Python”

I’ve had the great pleasure of attending PyConLT 2019 – my first trip to Lithuania. I had no idea what to expect (I’ve never been to this part of Europe) – Vilnius is a lovely city full of lovely Pythonistas. There’s a bunch of lovely art hanging underneath bridges, an amazing Soviet Palace of Arts […]
6 years ago

Second Successfully Delivering Data Science Projects just over

I ran the second iteration of my Successfully Delivering Data Science Projects course last Friday to this happy group, we had a lovely day and good conversation has continued in the teaching slack over the weekend: Topics covered included the design and derisking of data projects (not just machine learning), building a project plan, communicating […]
6 years ago

“discover feature relationships” – new EDA tool

I’ve built a new Exploratory Data Analysis tool, I used it in a few presentations last year with the code on github and have now (finally) published it to PyPI. The goal is to quickly check in a DataFrame using machine learning (sklearn’s Random Forests) if any column predicts any other column. I’m interested in […]
6 years ago

Talking on “High Performance Python” at Linuxing In London last week

Mario of PyLondonium (where I gave a keynote talk earlier this year) was kind enough to ask me along to speak at Linuxing in London. I gave an updated version of one of my older High Performance Python talks based on material I’d covered in my book, to show the more-engineering audience how to go […]
6 years ago

“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

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

On receiving the Community Leadership Award at the NumFOCUS Summit 2018

At the end of September I was honoured to receive the Community Leadership Award from NumFOCUS for my work building out the PyData community here in London and at associated events. This was awarded at the NumFOCUS 2018 Summit, I couldn’t attend the New York event and James Powell gave my speech on my behalf […]
6 years ago

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