PyData London - 80th meetup

Venue: 1 Angel Lane, EC4R 3AB

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your full real names on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.

If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.

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Code of Conduct:
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.

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As always, there'll be free food & drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group.

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Main Talk
Gen AI and Enterprise Search — Victor Naroditskiy
Search in Gmail, Confluence, Zendesk, or within any given website is... not great. You have to get the keywords exactly right. Chatting to ChatGPT is great. ChatGPT understands what you mean no matter how your phrase it. We'll explore why there is such a big gap, how to solve it using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and why ChatGPT on its own is not the solution.

🎄 Holiday Special: The Python Dependency Manager Showdown
Whether you love rolling with conda, dancing with mamba, writing Poetry, to ship with pip, getting handy with pip-tools, tapping some pdm along to edm, venving or virtualenving, or keeping it old school with setuptools and easy_install... there's a lot of ways of managing your project's dependencies.

In this holiday special, a panel of PyData London members will be putting forward their best argument for their dependency manager of choice. Expect a dazzling cocktail of passion, denial, sensibility, respectfulness, and technical showmanship garnished with enthusiastic moderation and questions from the audience.

⚡ Lightning Talks
Why I switched to Windows — Casper da Costa-Luis
"A hardcore Linux dev gives up after decades."

Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you have to sign-in via building security), talks start at 7 pm, drinks from 9 pm in the bar. We will have reduced capacity for this event but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with!

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Follow @pydatalondon (https://twitter.com/pydatalondon) for updates and early announcements.