PyData Cardiff Returns!
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We are very pleased to announce that after nearly 3 years, we are re-starting our regular PyData Cardiff meetups! We really hope that we can put on some great events for previous attendees and newcomers.
This event will be held at Tramshed Tech, kindly sponsored by Antiverse who are providing us with the venue together with food and refreshments (free beer, soft drinks and pizza!).
The venue will open at 18:00 for a workshop/introduction to tree-based machine learning algorithms (decision trees, random forests, etc.). The main event with two great speakers will start at 19:00. After the event, we will be heading to a local pub that is close to Cardiff Central Station.
We are fortunate to have 2 speakers for this event:
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Talk 1: Michael Hodge - Senior Data Scientist ONS Data Science Campus
Michael will be talking about how he helped thousands of people to get passport appointments using a Twitter bot programmed in Python. More information about this can be read on his blog Creating a Twitter Bot to post when a UK Government passport service is online | by Michael Hodge | Medium
Talk 2: Amit Chandra - Senior Analytics Manager at Admiral & Head of Data Science at AXA Insurance
Amit will be talking about his 10+ years experience of using machine learning in insurance and loans.
We also have some local representatives from a Cardiff based recruitment firm, IntaPeople, present. So if anyone is interested in learning more about the local job market for data science, then this is a great opportunity.
The event will be covered by the PyData Code of Conduct: https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct, and we would like to stress that one of the main goals of NumFocus and PyData is to increase diversity in the data science field. Our aim is to have an entertaining and informative evening, which will be a welcoming and safe space for everyone, from all backgrounds and technical abilities.