Name: PyData Southampton - 12th Meetup
Start: 2025-01-21T19:00:00Z
End: 2025-01-21T21:00:00Z
Location: Carnival House

**Venue**: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST
**📢 Want to speak 📢: [submit your talk proposal](https://bit.ly/pydataSoton-talks)**

**Main Talks**
1️⃣ Developing AI Products for the Healthcare Market: From idea to Impact - [Kam Pooni](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kampooni/)

2️⃣ Writing Libraries for Any Dataframe With Narwhals - [Ben Rutter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrrutter/)
Pandas, Polars, PySpark, Dask, Modin... there are numerous dataframe libraries available today. While this variety provides end users with solutions tailored to different use cases, it also presents a challenge for library and tool developers: how to support them all?

This talk explores the dataframe compatibility layer, Narwhals, from the perspective of developing a dataframe testing library, Wimsey. Narwhals is a library designed for tool makers, enabling Polars-style expressions to be translated into native dataframe operations. This talk will demonstrate how tool makers can leverage Narwhals to support multiple dataframes with a single implementation, all while maintaining minimal performance overhead.

**Lightning Talks ⚡**
**⚡**1️⃣ HealthTech, getting the evidence right - Robert Hull
**⚡**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](https://numfocus.org/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](https://numfocus.org/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!

Follow [@pydatasoton](https://twitter.com/pydatasoton) (https://twitter.com/pydatasoton) for updates and early announcements. We are also on Instagram/Threads as @pydatasoton, and find us on LinkedIn.

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