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PyDataLondon 2017 Conference Call for Proposals Now Open

This year we’ll hold our 4th PyDataLondon conference during May 5th-7th at Bloomberg (thanks Bloomberg!). Our Call for Proposals is open and will run during February (closing date to be confirmed so don’t just forget about it! – get on with making a draft submission soon). We want talks at all levels (first timers especially […]

Practical ML for Engineers talk at #pyconuk last weekend

Last weekend I had the pleasure of introducing Machine Learning for Engineers (a practical walk-through, no maths) [YouTube video] at PyConUK 2016. Each year the conference grows and maintains a lovely vibe, this year it was up to 600 people! My talk covered a practical guide to a 2 class classification challenge (Kaggle’s Titanic) with […]

Results for “Which version of Python (2.x vs 3.x) do London Data Scientists use?”

Over the last week I’ve surveyed my PyDataLondon meetup community (3,400+ members) to ask “Which version of Python do you use at work and at home?”. The goal is to gain evidence about which versions of Python are used by Data Scientists. This will help tool developers so they can make evidence-based decisions (e.g. this Dask […]

PyDataLondon 2016 Conference Write-up

We’ve just run our 3rd PyDataLondon Conference (2016) – 3 days, 4 tracks, 330 people.This builds on PyDataLondon 2015. It was ace! If you’d like to be notified about PyDataLondon 2017 then join this announce list (it’ll be super low volume like it has been for the last 2 years). Big thanks to the organizers, […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

“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. […]