PyData Prague #11 - Hovering over Capulets

Hello data-lovers and Python craft-masters!

Another PyData Prague meetup is here and this time we will meet in Ataccama office in Karlin. You can look forward to 2 great talks, awesome venue and of course also some food+beverages.

As usual, we will support our main goal of building the community around Python and data and making it welcoming to people of various skills and experience levels. Please RSVP here so that we can prepare the event for the right number of participants.

1. Using drone imagery to detect vegetation around power lines
Radek Ježek

When was the last time you encountered a power outage? You would be a bit concerned if you knew how much of today's critical infrastructure relies on the uninterrupted supply of electricity. How can drones help? This talk explains how we used drone images to automatically detect one of the most common causes of power outages - when trees come dangerously close to the wires.

The presentation will cover the complete workflow:

• Capturing images using automated drone missions.
• Building a 3D model of the terrain.
• Using computer vision and neural networks for detecting wires in the images.
• Building a 3D representation of the wires with epipolar geometry.
• Visualizing the vegetation encroachment.

2. Julia in Python's den
Matěj Račinský
Julia is a rather new programming language, designed for modern scientific computing. This talk will compare Julia to Python, discuss its current state and production-readiness, emphasise its strengths and weaknesses, describe the interoperability with Python, and speculate whether it is now a good time to rewrite all your Python projects in Julia - all that with some important takeaways from more than a year of running Julia in production at Avast.

The venue will open at 6.00pm but the intro won't take place sooner than at 6:30pm.

Please, RSVP here.

See you soon,
PyData Prague team