Name: On Plotnine, Computing and the Open Source Path
Start: 2025-07-25T05:30:00+03:00
End: 2025-07-25T07:30:00+03:00

**🧠 Subtitle: Growing technically by building, sharing and refining**
Join us for a deep dive into the journey of building Plotnine — a powerful Python library for data visualization inspired by ggplot2. Our speaker, a Data Scientist and Software Engineer at **Posit, PBC**, will share insights from years of contributing to open source tools in data science and scientific computing.

**What to Expect:**

* The process of **building open source data science tools**
* Why **sharing and refining** code in the open is key to growth
* How **open source fuels industries** — from agriculture and health to finance and education
* Practical pathways for **developers, students, and researchers in Africa to contribute** and collaborate globally.

**👤 About the Speaker:**
He is the creator of Plotnine and an active contributor to the open source data science ecosystem. At Posit, PBC, he works at the intersection of software engineering and data science.
**📅 Date & Time:** 25th July 2025, Friday 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
**📍 Location:** The Unipod, Yusuf Lule Teaching Facility, Makerere University
**📝 RSVP Now:** https://forms.gle/3z63fKzPVHaggYWh6

Note: Personal IDs shall be required.
A few limited slots available.

**Virtual attendance**: https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/ISBNgOB0T72FINLD62NVvA

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Data Scientist and Software Engineer at Posit, PBC.
He creates Open Source software for Data Science and Scientific Computing.

He is the author of Plotnine, a library for visualisation.

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