Welcome to the October meetup for the PyData Edinburgh group!

We'll have our regular update on the PyData world, lightning talks and our main speaker this time is Mike, talking about using Machine Learning for recognising animal pics.

Doors open at 1815, make sure you've clicked attend to reserve your place!

TALK DETAILS

Whiskers, ears and Puppy Dog Tails:
Finding out what animal pictures are made of

Presenter: Mike Moran
Mike Moran (http://www.houseofmoran.com/) is an Engineer at Skyscanner and an amateur Data Scientist.

Description:
Mike is working with https://twitter.com/carrotcodes on improving https://www.adoptanimals.io/ by applying facial identification techniques to animal pictures. Come along to find out how these work and how we’re using them.
Warning: may contain gratuitous amounts of cute animal pictures.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Lightning talks are a tradition of PyData so let's keep it rolling! They have to be strictly 5 minutes talks, about any topic Python and/or data! Please bring one along. No slides required but if you have some bring them on a mem stick. They're good fun and a great opportunity to share what you know/learn with all of us.

LOGISTICS

Please RSVP here!

1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
We'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.

SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS

As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (https://www.cathcartassociates.com), Wood Mackenzie (https://www.woodmac.com) and Canon Medical (https://research.eu.medical.canon)

CODE OF CONDUCT

The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. ( http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html ) To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1 512-222-5449; leah@numfocus.org) or the group organizer.