PyData Southampton - 9th Meetup

Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST
📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal

Main Talks
1️⃣ DL for tabular data with text and images: all that you don't need [but is good to know] - Javier Rodriguez Zaurin
A few years ago I was building a recommendation system and among all the algorithms I tried, XGBoost performed the best...with one exception, Wide & Deep (Heng-Tze Cheng, et al 2006). At that time Wide & Deep was only available in its Tensorflow implementation (v1) which lead to all kinds of mental distress. Through the years, I found myself using the algorithm again a few times, whether as a stand alone solution or to use the feature embeddings as a by-product. After a number of defeats "against Tensorflow" I decided to code it in Pytorch, as a side-project, in a form of a library. Some other people found it useful which resulted in pytorch-widedeep. This presentation will be a short tutorial to illustrate its use when combining tabular data with text (and/or images), and explain its design principles.

2️⃣ Pitfalls in Data Science Projects (and how to avoid them) - Marco Bonzanini
This talk discusses the successful delivery of data science projects, by analysing common mistakes that can hamper your plans and hurt your chances of success. It’s commonly acknowledged that a huge proportion of data science projects fail, for a variety of reasons. By sharing some lessons learned the hard way, we’ll look at frequent anti-patterns and how to elude them.

This presentation is mainly aimed at early-career data scientists, but also at anyone who has seen their data science projects going south and would like to improve the outcome of their work.

Lightning Talks ⚡
⚡1️⃣ TBD
⚡2️⃣ TBD

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname 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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There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK.
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Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.

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!

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