PyData Exeter #3

We're back in 2024 with new speakers!

Join us at the Generator Hub to enjoy three talks from our brilliant speakers after pizza, drinks, and a chance to get to know the other guests. We will then move on to the Topsham Brewery for a chance to socialise a bit more. We look forward to welcoming familiar faces and, hopefully, many new ones.

PyData Exeter is popular, so if your plans change, please cancel your attendance on Meetup in good time to free up your space for other community members!

Agenda:

• 18:30 Doors open (ring reception)
• 19:15 Talks start
• 20:30 Moving on to Topsham Brewery

Talks:

• A Beginner's Introduction to ROC Curves for Optimising Classifiers - Tariq Rashid
• Dealing with disagreeable data: How a proliferation of atmospheric datasets can hinder policy making and why data science provides an answer - Hamish Steptoe
• Jacob Tomlinson - Using GPUs to accelerate your Pandas dataframes and other PyData code

If you would be interested in presenting at future events please submit a talk proposal: PyData Talk Proposal Form.

Also, if you have any announcements for the community, please share them

Speakers:
Tariq Rashid: Tariq Rashid was originally trained as a physicist, and later gained a masters in machine learning and data mining. He’s worked in technology for 25 years, including almost a decade in central government, leading on the modernisation of technology and security. Tariq is passionate about open source, developing communities, and inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers. He led the London Python meetup, and until recently ran a children’s CoderDojo Cornwall and the Data Science Cornwall community, as well as the London based Algorithmic Art group which grew to over 4,500 members. He also writes books on machine learning and creative computing, one of which has been translated into 6 languages. He is currently developing Digital Dynamics, a new business helping organisations ensure their use of data and automation through machine learning is safe, fair and ethical.

Hamish Steptoe: Hamish Steptoe is an Applied Scientist at the Met Office, using statistics and data science to understand the impacts of weather and climate change around the world. His work focuses on informing decision making for climate resilience by engaging with international partners and stakeholders and supporting capacity development of provider and user organisations in low- and middle-income countries.

Jacob Tomlinson: A senior software engineer at NVIDIA, his work involves maintaining open source projects in the PyData ecosystem including RAPIDS and Dask. He also tinkers with kr8s, a Kubernetes library for Python, in his spare time.

Sponsors: DigiLab, University of Exeter

CODE OF CONDUCT
The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup (https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/). To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or behaviour of anyone at the PyData meetup, please contact the PyData Exeter organisers, or you can submit a report of any potential Code of Conduct violation directly to NumFOCUS (https://numfocus.typeform.com/to/ynjGdT).