Auckland Python Presentation
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This month's presentation:
Classifying First Names by Gender using Python - Emma Vitz
How can you train a supervised machine learning algorithm to classify first names by gender in Python? This talk covers getting data, choosing features, splitting the data into testing and training sets and creating the algorithm. It also looks at evaluating how well the algorithm is performing and gives an example of its use. Finally, we'll look at when the algorithm would perform well, and when it is likely to do poorly.
A bit about Emma:
Emma Vitz is an actuarial analyst at Finity Consulting. She graduated from Victoria University last year with a degree in Statistics and Psychology. Emma loves applying data science and machine learning techniques to all kinds of problems, especially those involving people. She continually pushes herself to learn new aspects of programming and data science, which you can see by following her on Twitter at @EmmaVitz
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The Auckland members of the New Zealand Python Users Group meet every month. You're very welcome to attend.
We have a healthy mix of Python users. Students, academics, hobbyists, industry professionals, and many completely new to Python.
During these meetups, we have two presentations by members of the group about their Python endeavours. At least one of the presentations should be aimed at a beginner level, so don't worry if you are not too familiar with Python.
The doors open at 6:30pm, and the first presentation starts at 6:45pm. Everything should be wrapped up by 8:30pm. See you there!
If you would like to present at a future meetup, fill out this google form and we will schedule you in https://goo.gl/forms/mJmi7kwrBrk3WpVw1
We follow the NZPUG code of conduct to create an inclusive friendly environment. https://python.nz/code-of-conduct/
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