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Data Science Jobs UK (ModelInsight) – Python Jobs Email List

I’ve had people asking me about how they can find data scientists in London and through our PyDataLondon meetup we’ve had members announcing jobs. There’s no central location for data science jobs so I’ve put together a new list (administered through my ModelInsight agency). Sign-up to the list here: Data Science Jobs UK (ModelInsight) Aimed […]
9 years ago

My Keynote at PyConIreland 2014 – “The Real Unsolved Problems in Data Science”

I’ve just given the opening keynote here at PyConIreland 2014 – many thanks to the organisers for letting me get on stage. This is based on 15 years experience running my own consultancies in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. (Small note  – with the pic below James mis-tweeted ‘sexist’ instead of ‘sexiest’ (from my opening slide) […]
10 years ago

Fourth PyDataLondon Meetup

We’ve just run our 4th PyDataLondon meetup (@PyDataLondon). Having over 500 members is superb for just 4 months growth, woot 🙂 Many thanks to @GoPivotalEMEA for hosting us. We had 3 speakers and 1 lightning talk. Here are my slides on “The High Performance Python Landscape”: I’m still collecting data for my two surveys (to […]
10 years ago

Slides for High Performance Python tutorial at EuroSciPy2014 + Book signing!

Yesterday I taught an excerpt of my 2 day High Performance Python tutorial as a 1.5 hour hands-on lesson at EuroSciPy 2014 in Cambridge with 70 students: We covered profiling (down to line-by-line CPU & memory usage), Cython (pure-py and OpenMP with numpy), Pythran, PyPy and Numba. This is an abridged set of slides from […]
10 years ago

Why are technical companies not using data science?

Here’s a quick question. How come more technical companies aren’t making use of data science? By “technical” I mean any company with data and the smarts to spot that it has value, by “data science” I mean any technical means to exploit this data for financial gain (e.g. visualisation to guide decisions, machine learning, prediction). […]
10 years ago

Data Science Training Survey

I’ve put together a short survey to figure out what’s needed for Python-based Data Science training in the UK. If you want to be trained in strong data science, analysis and engineering skills please complete the survey, it doesn’t need any sign-up and will take just a couple of minutes. I’ll share the results at […]
10 years ago

PyDataLondon 3rd event

This week we had our 3rd PyDataLondon meetup (@PyDataLondon), this builds on our 2nd event. We’re really happy to see the group grow to over 400 members, co-org Emlyn made a plot (see below) of our linear growth. Our main speakers: Andrew Clegg (chief Data Scientist at Pearson Publishing in London) spoke on his Snake […]
10 years ago

Second PyDataLondon Meetup a Javascript/Analystic-tastic event

This week we ran our 2nd PyDataLondon meetup (@PyDataLondon), we had 70 in the room and a rather techy set of talks. As before we hosted by Pivotal (@gopivotal) via Ian – many thanks for the beer and pizza! I took everyone to the pub after for a beer on out  data science consultancy to […]
10 years ago

PyDataLondon second meetup (July 1st)

Our second PyDataLondon meetup will be running on Tuesday July 1st at Pivotal in Shoreditch. The announce went out to the meetup group and the event was at capacity within 7 hours – if you’d like to attend future meetups please join the group (and the wait-list is open for our next event). Our speakers: […]
10 years ago

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 […]
10 years ago