[In-Person] PyLadies Dublin x Honeywell - Oct Meetup

🙌 We are back with another in-person event after a pretty successful one in September. And our host this month is Honeywell!

💻 Do bring along your laptops if you want to code in between or after the talks, it can be with others attending, trying out code with speakers, it's up to you! 🥰

🆔 Do bring your ID as security will be required to check it.

🍴We will have food during the event. Please let us know when you register if you have any dietary requirements.

We would like to thank the following:
Host:

• Honeywell

Community Partners:

• Coding Grace
• PSF: Meetup
• PyLadies

NOTE: This won't be live-streamed.

⌚️ SCHEDULE
18:15 REGISTRATION
18:30 - 18:40 Event starts - Welcome & Announcements
18:40 - 19:05 Using BERT to investigate cognitive biases in thinking of everyday unexpected events" by Molly Quinn
19:05 - 19:10 "What is Bioconductor?" by Maria Doyle
19:10 - 19:25 "Hello Polars!" by Antonio Bevilacqua
19:25 - 20:30 Food, Drink, Networking & Coding
20:30 EVENT ENDS

TALKS
Talk 1: "Using BERT to investigate cognitive biases in thinking of everyday unexpected events"

Description:
(25 mins) I will explain how I used huggingface's Transformers package to investigate data collected as part of a psychological study. I will also discuss how AI explainability methods can help us not only understand the models we use, but also reveal details about the human behaviour behind the text.

About Molly Quinn:
I’m a final-year PhD Candidate in Computer Science at University College Dublin with a background in Experimental Psychology. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, using techniques from both psychology and computer science. In psychology, I study how people think about and predict unexpected events, and how features of prior events such as sentiment and controllability influence these judgments. For this work, I have received an Early Career Publication Award from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology which is awarded to one PhD student and one post-doc per year. On the computational side, I am currently using the transformer language models BERT and GPT-2 to model human behaviour using the data I collected.

• https://mollysquinn.github.io

Talk 2: Hello Polars!
Description:
(15 mins) In this talk I will give a brief introduction about Polars, an emerging data library written in Rust that exposes exciting APIs in both Rust and Python.

About Antonio Bevilacqua
I am a postdoc researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCD. My work focuses on timeseries analysis and classification.

• http://www.thisisanton.io/

Talk 3: What is Bioconductor?
Description: (5 mins) This talk will introduce the Bioconductor project.
About Maria Doyle:
I'm Community Manager for Bioconductor, a global repository and community for statistical packages for biological analysis.

• https://www.bioconductor.org

🔍 FAQ
Q. I'm not female, is it ok for me to attend?
A. Yes, PyLadies Dublin events are open to everyone at all levels.

Q. Can I bring a guest?
A. Yes. Please let us know your +1's full name and if they have any dietary requirements as our host will require this info for their onsite security.

Q. What do you do at PyLadies Dublin Meetups?
A. We have short (or long talks), demos, folks working on their own projects, ask questions on Python-related topics, work on projects together or generally chit-chat & meet like-minded people.

Q. Do you have a Code of Conduct?
A. Yes, you can find it at dublin.pyladies.com

Q. I am interested in giving a talk, where do I submit my interest and talk details?
A. You can submit your talk details to the following form:
https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1JaDd_XRCQFKb3cp0akbz8Af1bg5