PyLadies Dublin

We are delighted to have Optum hosting and providing food for our meetup this month. Talk 1: Playing with Food-Data : Predicting your next meal !! Description: Food choices are personal and complex and have a significant impact on our long-term health and quality of life. By helping users to make informed and satisfying decisions, Recommender Systems (RS) have the potential to support users in making healthier food choices. Intelligent users-modeling is a key challenge in achieving this potential. This paper investigates Ensemble Topic Modelling (EnsTM) based Feature Identification techniques for efficient user-modeling and recipe recommendation. It builds on findings in EnsTM to propose a reduced data representation format and a smart user-modeling strategy that makes capturing user-preference fast, efficient and interactive. This approach enables personalization, even in a cold-start scenario. This paper proposes two different EnsTM based and one Hybrid EnsTM based recommenders. We compared all three EnsTM based variations through a user study with 48 participants, using a large-scale,real-world corpus of 230,876 recipes, and compare against a conventional Content Based (CB) approach. EnsTM based recommenders performed significantly better than the CB approach. Besides acknowledging multi-domain contents such as taste, demographics and cost, our proposed approach also considers user’s nutritional preference and assists them finding recipes under diverse nutritional categories. Furthermore, it provides excellent coverage and enables implicit understanding of user’s food practices. Subsequent analysis also exposed correlation between certain features and a healthier lifestyle. About Mansura A. Khan: PhD student in UCD, School of Computer Science. Her research interest are Recommender Algorithms, Recommendation System Design, User Modelling , Health aware Recommendation , Personalisation, Human Compute Interaction. --- Talk 2: A deep learning approach to speech recognition of spoken words for regulatory compliance Description: Regulatory compliance for auditory environments is a fresh domain. The presented work attempts to classify the spoken names from the raw audio files using a deep learning approach. About Ebad Ali: I am a data consultant at Clear Strategy and CTO at Staypal. I have a masters in Data Analytics and bachelors in Computer Science. I am independently researching in audio processing and love jiu jitsu. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebadalie ============================================ CALL FOR SPEAKERS Interested in speaking at our upcoming meetups, please submit talk details to: https://pyladiesdublin.typeform.com/to/Rr6hVJ CALL FOR SPONSORS Interested in hosting us? Drop us an email and let's have a chat. QUESTIONS Email [masked]. ============================================ FAQ ----- Q. I'm not female, is it ok for me to attend? A. Yes, PyLadies Dublin events are open to everyone at all levels. Q. What do I need to bring? A. Bring your laptop (and don't forget your charger). Q. Will there be food? A. Yes, and thanks to Optum for providing us food. Q. What do you do at PyLadies Dublin Meetups? A. We have short (or long talks), demos, folks working on their own projects, ask questions on Python-related topics, work on projects together or generally chit-chat and meet like-minded people. Q. Do you have a Code of Conduct? A. Yes (but we will need to find an alternative place for it, it's not easy to find on meetup) - https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/pages/12625412/Code_of_Conduct/ ***IF YOU CANNOT MAKE IT, PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RSVP***

We won't have a December meetup but we will be joining other Irish Tech Community groups for an evening of fun and lots of laughs while raising money for Dublin Simon Community. **It's FREE but you must register via https://ti.to/irishgeeks/have-i-got-nerds-for-you to take part.** Big thanks to our Partners: - Workday for hosting; shout out to Dale and Naomi for organising the venue for us and being involved with the event. - Vectra.ai for sponsoring food - Swrve for sponsoring a prize Hugs to the following Community Groups (in alphabetical order): - Coding Grace - Dublin Maker - MADE - Engineers Ireland - Young Engineers - GameCraft - GDG Dublin - Ireland Girl Geek Dinners - PyLadies Dublin - Rails Girls Dublin - Ruby Ireland - TOG Hackerspace - Women in Tech Africa - Women Who Code Dublin Schedule (*subject to change) --------------- 18:30 People arriving, settling down, have some food 19:00 Welcome folks, run down of rules and announce our charity (bucket) 19:05 Round 1 19:25 Round 2 19:45 Round 3 20:05 Round 4 20:40 Announce Winners 21:00 Event ends; option to go to nearby pub FAQ Q. I'm not on a team, can I still come along? Yes; we will help you find a group on the night. Q. How many people per team? Up to 5 persons per team. Q. How much is it to participate? It's FREE! 🙌 Q. How can I get involved? == Community Organisers == Drop us an email at [masked], send along your - Group Name - Group Logo - Group URL We will add it to the banner and event page. And share with your network and get them to join us. Also, it's a chance to give yourself a month off from organising your event. Come along, kick back, enjoy and all for a good cause. == Individual == We are also happy to have volunteers, if you like to help with - Quiz questions - Social media (we'll figure out a #-tag) - Take pics - Help with questions (but you can't participate in the quiz, that would be cheating. 😉) == Company == We are looking for sponsorship for prizes Q. What if I don't have cash for donations to Dublin Simon Community? Don't worry, Dublin Simon are lending us one of their card readers, so you can optionally donate with your card. We will have a bucket going around for those who want to donate the old fashion non-digital way. ❤️ ============================================ CALL FOR SPEAKERS for 2020 Interested in speaking at our upcoming meetups, please submit talk details to: https://pyladiesdublin.typeform.com/to/Rr6hVJ QUESTIONS Email [masked]. ============================================

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