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PyDataMCR

By Joseph Allen

A Podcast focusing on all things data in Manchester(UK). Hosted by the organisers of the Manchester PyData chapter.
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Episode 18 - Functional Programming and Data Engineering with James Fielder

PyDataMCRAug 26, 2020

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Episode 18 - Functional Programming and Data Engineering with James Fielder
Aug 26, 202001:00:23
Episode 17 - Data Engineering and Game Theory with Eslene Bikoumou
Jul 26, 202044:14
Episode 16 - Academia and back again with Adam Fletcher
Jun 26, 202053:46
Episode 15 - Open Contracts and Volunteering in Tech with Hera

Episode 15 - Open Contracts and Volunteering in Tech with Hera

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 15, Hera Hussain, Jennifer and John are talking about Open Contracting - what it is and why it is important, as well as Volunteering in Tech - how to get into it and how to get it right.


Sponsors

Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/

Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/


Our Collaborators:

HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/

Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk

Django Girls - djangogirls.org/

Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/

Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org.uk/

Lambda Lounge - http://lambdalounge.org.uk/


Resources:

Hera: https://twitter.com/herahussain ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/herahussain/

Contracts Finder https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

Chayn https://chayn.co/

Tech for Good Live https://www.techforgood.live/

Global Shapers https://www.globalshapers.org/hubs/manchester-hub-57f7919c6b-hub

Nighat Dad https://twitter.com/nighatdad @ Digital Rights PK

Mor https://twitter.com/Morchickit  @ Open Heroines

https://twitter.com/wethecatalysts @ The Catalyst Project

Cassie https://twitter.com/cassierobinson @ National Lottery

Dan https://twitter.com/dansutch @ Cast

Bex https://twitter.com/rebeccawho @ Tech for Good Live

Julian https://twitter.com/Julianlstar // Sam https://twitter.com/milsomsam @ Open Data Manchester

Emer https://twitter.com/emercoleman @ Federation Community

Dama https://twitter.com/Dama_Yanthy @ Bethnall Green Ventures


Social

Meetup -meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Slack -  http://bit.ly/35KGOgR

Twitter - @PyDataMCR

May 26, 202041:42
Episode 14 - Johns Favourite Topic: Recommender Systems
Apr 26, 202044:08
Episode 13 - The Joys of Open Data
Mar 26, 202058:17
Episode 12 - Sentiment Analysis and NLP
Feb 25, 202047:28
Episode 11 - A Year in Review

Episode 11 - A Year in Review

This month we thought we would take a break from our usual episode format and have ourselves as the guests. Listen to us reflect on our year volunteering with PyDataMCR. We talk about what we did this year, including Google Next! We also talk a little about learning to rank. We realise this is an insider view, so this months meetup will be an open retro so have a think about what you want from next year.

Request: If you know about recording events for YouTube, and can help us out, feel free to dm us (see our social channels below).


Sponsors

LadBible - ladbible.com/

Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/

Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/

Our Collaborators: 

HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/

Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk

Django Girls - djangogirls.org/

Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/

Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org.uk/

Lambda Lounge - http://lambdalounge.org.uk/

What we’ve done this year…

hacktoberfest - hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com 

blog posts - tinyurl.com/tnkzafr
tinyurl.com/urn8twp
tinyurl.com/too86wj

Learning to rank resources

Matt Crooks Medium: Louvain clustering - medium.com/@DrMattCrooks 

Google NEXT 

Google NEXT - cloud.withgoogle.com/next/uk/ 

Cloud Build - cloud.google.com/cloud-build/ 

Cloud Run -  cloud.google.com/run/ 

Trifactor - trifacta.com 

Cloud Dataprep by Trifactor - cloud.google.com/run/ 

Tool Great Expectations - github.com/great-expectations/great_expectations 

Social 

Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Slack -  http://bit.ly/35KGOgR 

Twitter - @PyDataMCR 

Jan 27, 202047:52
Episode 10 - Hacktoberfest Special
Nov 25, 201953:04
Episode 9 - Smart Meters, more like Dumb Meters Ft. Ellen Talbot
Oct 25, 201946:54
Episode 8 - Mucking around and making things work Ft. Tom Liptrot

Episode 8 - Mucking around and making things work Ft. Tom Liptrot

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 8 , today we are talking to Tom Liptrot who is a Consultant Data Scientist at Ortom, a Manchester based Data Science Consultancy.

We talk about how flexibility at work can lead to great data products, some various meetups Tom will be attending and even some stand up comedy.

Show Notes

Sponsors

Arctic Shores - arcticshores.com/

Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/


Meetups

Pydatamcr - https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Macnml - https://www.mancml.io/

Chester Data Insights - https://www.meetup.com/Chester-Data-Insights/

AiFrenzy - labs.uk.barclays/ai

Crap talks - https://www.meetup.com/CRAP-Talks-CRO-Analytics-Product-Manchester/

Bright festival - http://www.brightclub.org/


Tom

Ortom Data Science Consultancy - https://ortom.co.uk/

DSF blog post - https://ortom.co.uk/2019/03/22/data-fest-2019.html


Packages

Tidyverse - https://www.tidyverse.org/

Pandas - https://pandas.pydata.org/

dplyr - https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/

brms - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brms/index.html

pymc3 - https://docs.pymc.io/

XGBoost - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xgboost/index.html

glmnet - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/glmnet/index.html

keras - https://keras.io/


Book recommendation

Andrew Gelman - https://www.amazon.com/Red-State-Blue-Rich-Poor/dp/0691143935


Who you admire

Demis Hassabis - twitter.com/demishassabis?lang=en

Jeff Dean - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean_(computer_scientist)

Hadley Wickham - http://hadley.nz/

Hannah Fry - http://www.hannahfry.co.uk/

Andy Clark - https://twitter.com/fluffycyborg?lang=en

Karl J. Friston - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_J._Friston

Martin Eastwood - http://www.pena.lt/y/blog.html

Peak.ai - https://peak.ai/

Kayle Haynes - https://twitter.com/KayleaHaynes

Chris boddington - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-boddington-449555112/

Sep 24, 201947:08
Episode 7 - Open Science and Imposters syndrome Ft. Rachael Ainsworth
Sep 24, 201945:26
Episode 6 - Developer Advocacy and dealing with burnout Ft. Tania Allard
Jul 25, 201939:60
Episode 5 - Data in Dating Ft. Ian Forrester
Jun 25, 201943:48
Episode 4 - Data Science in Production Ft. Leanne Fitzpatrick
May 25, 201939:56
Episode 3 - Forecasting Ft. Kaylea Haynes
Apr 25, 201941:23
Episode 2 - Getting a Job in Data Ft. Liam Wilson of Cathcart Associates
Mar 29, 201939:50
Episode 1 - Geospatial data with Rebecca Davey and David Mulcahy

Episode 1 - Geospatial data with Rebecca Davey and David Mulcahy

 PyDataMCR - Episode 1 - Geospatial data with Rebecca Davey and David Mulcahy

Welcome to the official PyDataMCR podcast, In this episode we are joined by Rebecca and David from INRIX. We zip through topics including GPS tracking, Hidden Markov Models and open source tools.

Show notes:

Libraries:

Geopandas - http://geopandas.org/

Dockerfile for geopandas - https://hub.docker.com/r/jaspajjr/geopandas

Folium - https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/

HMM-learn - https://hmmlearn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Valhalla - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Valhalla

Graphhopper - https://www.graphhopper.com/

Openstreetmap - https://www.openstreetmap.org

Openstreetmap wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Mapping Mobility in Stockport - https://bit.ly/2TZFal5

HMM for mapmatching -  https://bit.ly/2Nqb5ZL

Tech heroes:

Professor Anna Scaife: https://twitter.com/radastrat

Cathy O'Neil - https://twitter.com/mathbabedotorg

Safiya Noble - https://twitter.com/safiyanoble

Tom MacWright - https://macwright.org/

Our Sponsor

Cathcart Associates is a technology recruitment company with offices in Leeds and Manchester covering all things tech, but with an experienced team focusing on Data Science in the North West. We’re good at what we do. We understand what our candidates do, and what our clients need, and we really care about making sure you both get what you want. We’ve been sponsoring PyDataMCR since its inception because we’re nice guys and we like pizza. Check out our website to get in touch – cathcartassociates.com

Contact

Twitter - twitter.com/pydatamcr

Slack - bit.ly/2v60ieu 

Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Feb 21, 201938:23
PyDataMCR - Episode 0 - NUMFOCUS with Dr Gina Helfrich

PyDataMCR - Episode 0 - NUMFOCUS with Dr Gina Helfrich

PyDataMCR - Episode 0 - NUMFOCUS with Dr Gina Helfrich Welcome to the official PyDataMCR podcast, In this episode we give an introduction to PyData,NUMFOCUS and some of the organisers. The mission of NumFOCUS is to promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research. We accomplish this mission through our educational programs and events as well as through fiscal sponsorship of open source scientific computing projects. We aim to increase collaboration and communication within the data science and scientific computing community. PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData communities approach data science using many languages, including (but not limited to) Python, Julia, and R. Dr Gina Helfrich is the Communications Director and Program Manager for Diversity & Inclusion at NumFOCUS, a non-profit that supports better science through open code. Show notes: Why Women Are Flourishing In R Community But Lagging In Python - https://bit.ly/2EacceY Discover Cookbook - https://bit.ly/2PLJyS5 Numfocus blog - numfocus.org/blog Numfocus donation link/membership - https://bit.ly/2S4JDSH Corporate sponsor - numfocus.org/sponsors Conda-forge - conda-forge.org ropenSci - ropensci.org QuantEcon - quantecon.org OpenJournals - www.theoj.org Astropy -astropy.org Cantera -cantera.org jump built with Julia - juliaopt.org/JuMP.jl/0.17/quickstart.html Schoolbus project - https://bit.ly/2LkfUm0 Google slides transcription - https://bit.ly/2PJSkzE Safia Abdallah - twitter.com/captainsafia Stuff Mom Never Told You episode featuring Gina - stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/podcasts/spill-your-salary-secrets.htm Mesa - github.com/projectmesa/mesa Book recommendation from Bertil and David: https://amzn.to/2QB6HMg Our Sponsor Cathcart Associates is a technology recruitment company with offices in Leeds and Manchester covering all things tech, but with an experienced team focusing on Data Science in the North West. We’re good at what we do. We understand what our candidates do, and what our clients need, and we really care about making sure you both get what you want. We’ve been sponsoring PyDataMCR since its inception because we’re nice guys and we like pizza. Check out our website to get in touch – cathcartassociates.com Contact Twitter - twitter.com/pydatamcr Slack - bit.ly/2v60ieu Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/
Dec 17, 201801:20:55