PyData Cambridge - 43rd Meetup

📣📣We are happy to announce the 43rd PyData Cambridge meetup!📣📣

Agenda:
18:45 - 🚪 Doors open (Please do not arrive earlier)
19:00 - ▶️ Introduction
19:15 - 🗣 Faster, Cheaper, and Greener BigData (by Behrad Babaee)
19:50 - 🍕 Interval - pizza and drinks provided
20:15 - 🗣 Taming the open data science stack for the enterprise (by Dan Lester)
20:50 - 🍻 End (Pub - Station Tavern, Station Square)

This event is sponsored by Aerospike & the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

## Talks
Title: Faster, Cheaper, and Greener BigData, by Behrad Babaee
Investing in efficient technologies is a proven way to innovate while reducing costs. But efficiency has another benefit: recent research has shown that efficient software lowers CO2 emissions significantly. Efficient software like Aerospike Database gives businesses access to faster, cheaper, and greener BigData.

Title: Taming the open data science stack for the enterprise, by Dan Lester
Nebari is an open source data science platform. Organisations use it to easily deploy and manage their own cloud-based web app allowing their employees to work in a Jupyter-based collaborative environment, leveraging open source projects such as Dask for processing distributed workloads.
The talk will show you how automated DevOps pipelines can manage this entire deployment through minimal configuration on the part of the organisation.
It will also discuss some of the design decisions built into Nebari, along with a tour of some interesting sub-projects such as ContainDS Dashboards for sharing your notebooks or scripts with non-technical stakeholders, and Conda Store for centralised management of conda environments.
Nebari is a community-managed project that was spun out of Quansight, a data science consulting company started by Travis Oliphant, famous for founding NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, NumFOCUS, PyData - effectively a large part of the open source numerical computing stack that we know and love today.

## Speakers
Behrad Babaee bio:
Behrad Babaee is a Technology Evangelist in Aerospike. He has architected several highly scalable Data-Intensive applications you might use daily. In the past few years, his primary focus was on NoSQL database solutions such as Aerospike, Cassandra, Titan, and MongoDB. Behrad uses his breadth of skill and experience to evangelise the use of modern technologies that impact individuals, businesses, and the planet

Dan Lester bio:
Dan Lester is a developer-entrepreneur with three successful exits including Conversocial, a VC-funded enterprise SaaS product he co-founded, which was acquired for $50m in 2021. He has spent much of his career working with Python, recently building a range of open source projects to support data science and machine learning infrastructure, including ContainDS Dashboards and some smaller Jupyter plugins. His consulting company Ideonate also undertakes contract work in this space. Dan worked with Quansight to integrate his project ContainDS Dashboards into Nebari, and also worked on the Nebari core product.

Code of Conduct
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