Members Talk Evening [in person and streamed]

Hi PyLadies Berlin!

We're excited to announce this members' talks evening held in-person and online 🎙

We will have an introduction from our sponsor PLAN D and 2 very insightful talks for you, after the talks we also have a raffle and special announcement from OfferZen 🥳

Our sponsor is PLAN D, the visionary management and technology consultancy. Together with customers, they develop digital and data strategies and implement new technologies and products. This is how they turn their customers into data-driven companies.

💡 Tamara Atanasoska (she/her) - Modeling mental hops from one word to the next with NLP and Python
How would you model the mental hops that lead from one word to the next? And how about when instead of a word, the starting point are concepts grounded explicitly or implicitly in an image? These questions, and more, were the topic of my latest research project. Working to automatically generate image-term pairs for an image-grounded, collaborative Wordle game, I looked for combinations that spark the desired type of dialogue - illuminating the participants' decision-making. The project fits the broader efforts toward natural language explainability that Prof. Schlangen’s research group at the University of Potsdam is undertaking. We will look at the method I developed from an engineering perspective, going over all the NLP concepts composing it, and touch upon a bit of linguistics theory too.

Level: Beginner to the domain (already familiar with Python)

👩‍💻 Tamara is currently wrapping up her Cognitive Systems Masters, where she explored the intersection between cognitive science, linguistics and ML/NLP for the last few years. In the last decade before she worked in music tech and civic tech, as a software engineer and developer relations. This year she is celebrating 10 years since her first Pyladies Berlin talk 🎉
Twitter: @tamarajul

✨ Raana Saheb Nassagh (she/her) - How to be a good reviewer: Be honest, nice and a bad ass
The first time I was asked to review a colleague's code, I was unsure: What was expected of me? What exactly was I supposed to check? And, most importantly, wouldn't I make myself unpopular by pointing out others' mistakes?
In my presentation, I will describe what I have learned since then. Using real examples, I’ll point out:
what you should look for when reviewing code (e.g. readability, redundancy, files & data), which tools you can use (e.g. gitlab runner, black, mypy) and how to stay friends while being brutally honest with each other :-)
By the way: The examples of code bugs are not only from my colleagues. After all, my own code is constantly reviewed and fixed by others. And yes, I admit, it hurts every single time…

Level: Intermediate Python developer

👩‍💻 Raana Saheb Nassagh has always been passionate about technology. From high school with a focus on mathematics, her path led her to a bachelor's degree in software engineering and a master's degree in artificial intelligence at Iran University of Science and Technology.

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📆 Agenda
19h00 Community Announcements
19h10 Introduction to our Sponsor PLAN D
19h20 Modeling mental hops from one word to the next with NLP and Python by Tamara
19h50 10 Minutes Break
20h00 How to be a good reviewer: Be honest, nice, and a badass by Raana
20h30 Raffle announcement from OfferZen ✨
20h40 Networking
21:30 See You Next Time! :D

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❓ Can men attend ❓
Everyone is welcome. :)
If you identify as someone well-represented in open source and in tech, please be mindful of the space and privileges you have, and use it to support others.

🎥 This hybrid event will be streamed on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PyLadiesBerlin

🍕 There will be food and drinks (with vegetarian and vegan options thanks to our sponsor)

🤝 By attending our online event, you agree to the PyLadies Code of Conduct: https://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/

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