Python Ireland Monthly Meetup

It's with excitement that we announce another edition of our Remote Monthly MeetUp, this time with a joined effort with the NxNW tech meetup from Letterkenny, IE.
More info here: https://www.meetup.com/North-by-Northwest-Tech-Meetup/

This event brings Data Scientists from Pramerica (https://www.pramerica.ie) and will be fully hosted ONLINE. We do not require registration to join. Once you click 'Attend', a link with the webinar information will be available to you. Don't forget to type the password for the webinar.

In case Zoom is not your thing (we get it, Linux/UNIX users), we will also broadcast this juicy event on Python Ireland's YouTube channel and on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/pythonireland). So no one misses out on the fun!

Actually, since you're there already... I reckon you better subscribe, no?! ;)

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Agenda for the night:

6:00 pm - Opening / NxNW & Python IE intro;
7:10 pm TALK I: Is this the Best Feature Selection Algorithm “BorutaShap”? - Eoghan Keany;
7:40 pm - Talk II: Categorical embeddings usage with structured data - Saurabh Goel;
8:30 pm - If no further, closing.

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ABSTRACT TALK I:
Eoghan Keany is a Data Scientist at Pramerica. BorutaShap is a wrapper feature selection method which combines both the Boruta feature selection algorithm with Shapley values.
Eoghan will cover:
• Introduction to new BorutaShap package
• Its benefits and how to use it
• How to publish your own Python code"

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ABSTRACT TALK II:
Saurabh Goel is a Data Scientist Manager at Pramerica (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhgoel85/) and on her talk, she will be showing how dealing with categorical variables is always a challenge for machine learning problems. Categorical embeddings is one such way of handling those variables which preserves the unknown relationships within the various categories of the variable.

Saurabh will cover:
• How to train a categorical embedding
• How to extract them
• How to use them with typical structured data algorithms like XGBOOST."

So go grab your drink and join us on another great Wednesday chat!