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https://london.pydata.org We run a monthly meetup and host the annual PyData London conference. PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, helping our community share ideas and learn from each other. https://www.meetup.com/PyData-London-Meetup/
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📢 Last chance to submit a talk for the @pydatalondon.bsky.social 2025 #conference 🎤 Speak to and network with 100s of #Python, #DataScience & #AI / #MachineLearning practitioners at #PyData #London. 🎟️ Also you'll get a free ticket! 📝 Submit your talk by midnight GMT: pydata.org/london2025/cfp

DEADLINE TODAY(23:59 GMT) to get your talk or tutorial in for PyData London 2025! Register as a speaker here pydata.org/london2025/cfp

Just two days left to get your talk or tutorial for PyData London 2025! Deadline 24 February. Register as a speaker now pydata.org/london2025/cfp

Hello, Bluesky! 🦋🐍 We're the Python Software Foundation (PSF)— the charitable organization supporting the global #Python community. Follow us for: - PSF & Python news 📰 - Fiscal Sponsoree highlights 🌍 - PyCon US info 🎟️ - Grants Program updates 💰 Learn more:

📊 Only 53% of scientific Python projects declare their dependencies, compared to 100% of top PyPI packages. Maria Knorps and Zhihan Zhang dive into the structure and reproducibility of Python packages, offering insights to enhance your projects. 🔗 Watch now! youtu.be/PB4NTTxYExs

PyData London 2024: Alexander Darby - 5 Things I Learnt from Causing a Cloud Provider Outage Alexander's team caused DDOS-like outage for a major cloud provider in 2024! Some valuable lessons on making systems performant, resilient and easy to maintain at massive scales. youtu.be/VW5wHh-XJug

"Your boss might forget your wins. The stage won't." Just 7 days left to submit your talk or tutorial for PyData London 2025! Register as a speaker now pydata.org/london2025/cfp

Join us at PyData London - 94th Meetup! Tuesday 4 March at 19:00 meetu.ps/e/NSBvJ/5p7c...

Turn "I fixed a bug" into "I inspired thousands" Just 12 days left to submit your talk or tutorial for PyData London 2025! Register as a speaker pydata.org/london2025/cfp

Pydata London 2024: Tun Shwe - Moving from Offline to Online Machine Learning with River As organisations use more real-time data, ML systems increasingly use online stream processing, which lets models learn from a stream of data points and adapt in near real-time. youtu.be/W7EOp-6UWeo

Just 16 days left to submit your talk or tutorial for PyData London 2025! Register as a speaker pydata.org/london2025/cfp

I got to see a real baby photo of myself in super resolution, even clearer than TopazLabs' Gigapixel!

Finally tonight we’re hearing from Espoir Murhabazi on Building a News Summariser on a Budget. A fully fledged LLM application using Qwen2-Instruct 1.5B, Scrapy, Stella embeddings model and hierarchical clustering in plain scipy!

Sefik Serengil tells us about Facial Recognition Dates Homomorphic Encryption: A Love Story in Privacy DeepFace and TenSEAL creates a privacy-preserving facial recognition system Encrypting facial embeddings & computations on encrypted data ensures sensitive information stays secure.

Next up we have Web development with pyscript from Nasrin Pathan. PyScript is a framework to run Python code directly in your browser so you can run interactive Python code on the web. pyscript.net

Kicking off tonight’s talks with Oguzhan Cagirir on Contextual Precision: Unleashing Super Resolution with Transformer. Unlike CNNs, transformers use self-attention understand the whole image, hallucinating details with contextual cues. Including a live demo of his EnhanceFX model!

Less than 3 weeks to get your talks and tutorials in for PyData London 2025! Submit your proposal by 24 Feb pydata.org/london2025

The next PyData London Meetup is TOMORROW! If you can’t make it please free your spot so someone else can go—but otherwise we look forward to seeing you there!

PyData London 2024: Luca Baggi - Uncertainty estimation at scale with functime Knowing how confident models are in predictions is really valuable. Luca shows how to generate blazingly fast prediction intervals using EnBPI, a state-of-the-art conformal prediction framework. youtu.be/qDjThKoKdq4

Have something great to share? Tell us about it at the PyData London 2025 conference! Submit your talk or tutorial proposal here by 24 February. pydata.org/london2025/cfp

If you're in the West Midlands, PyData Birmingham is hosting its first event on Sat 8 February! Join them to hear about "How to make AI work: Tales from projects gone wrong" www.meetup.com/pydata-birmi...

PyData London 2024: An Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation — Dan Gibson RAG is an increasingly popular way to build chatbots using your organisation's data. This tutorial introduces RAG and builds a simple RAG powered chatbot in Python. youtu.be/OxhwZ6wr1n8

The 93rd PyData London Meetup is here! Join us on Tue 4 Feb from 19:00 for informative talks, interesting conversations and great company! meetu.ps/e/NNLKV/5p7c...

PyData London 2025 is here! Following last year's sell-out success, we've moved to a new venue and are looking forward to even more great talks and conversations! If you're interested in sponsoring the event--or know someone who might--please let us know. Reaching out now 😊 pydata.org/london2025

Finally tonight we have a lighting talk from Kevin Vegda on LangGraph: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tool “We’re just doing prompt engineering under the hood. LangGraph lets me do that.”

Now we’re hearing from Tambe Tabitha Achere — Behind the scenes - controlling GitHub from Python The government releases rules for how datasets should be validated. But this is painful to manage. How can we automate validation using GitHub?

Next up we have a lighting talk from Victor Zommers on Visualising LLM embeddings with T-SNE How can we dynamically visualise what’s happening in vector stores? How do sentiment scores interact with each other?

Kicking off tonight’s PyData Meetup with Serge Kozlov talking about Deploying Al-driven optimal control systems in factories 🚀

Happy new year! And it's nearly time for our first meetup of 2025 on Tue 7 January (tomorrow). Deploying AI-driven optimal control systems in factories -- Serge Kozlov If you can't make it please free your spot for someone else. But otherwise see you there! www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...

📈 "Half of my marketing budget is wasted, but I don't know which half." This century-old quote still rings true today. Emanuele Fabbiani discusses how Bayesian models can optimise marketing spend, using WeRoad's case study. Learn how to maximise ROI with actionable insights. youtu.be/GYmE_VcAeJA

PyData London 2024: Keynote: Dr. Rebecca Bilbro - Mistakes were made Rebecca takes us through her 15 years in data science. She shares lessons of data science projects going sideways, fixing broken things and identifies anti-patterns & red flags she's learned to steer around. youtu.be/aSCYal0w0NA

Robot Holmes is back 🕵️ Last year I gave the talk "Robot Holmes and the Vision-Language Murder Mysteries", an intro to VLM models and tasks, at @pydatalondon.bsky.social and @europython.bsky.social. Now I started to actually turn it into a story here: johko.github.io/robot-holmes...

Shubhangi Goyal explaining Generative #AI at @pydatalondon.bsky.social

Luca-Dorin Anton from Man Group presenting on the open source product #DataHub at @pydatalondon.bsky.social

Sam Joseph at @pydatalondon.bsky.social breaking down LLMs and weights talk at #pydatalondon

PyData London 2024: Test-Driven Data Analysis in Python @njr0.bsky.social Tutorial: tdda is a library for improving quality in data processes. Nick covers generating constraints, reference tests for analysis and automatically creating Python tests with tdda. youtu.be/iM89ZoJYdwE?...

Looking forward to our 91st PyData London this Tuesday (3 December) at 19:00! If you’re down to attend but can no longer make it, please free your spot so someone else can come instead. But otherwise see you there! PyData London - 91st Meetup meetu.ps/e/NDX7c/5p7c...

PyData London 2024: A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation @inesmontani.bsky.social LLMs have enormous potential, but modularity, transparency & data privacy in industry are challenging. Ines shows us how to use the latest models in real world applications. youtu.be/pgLLgvjZ_FA?...

At our July Meetup, Marco Bonzanini asked us: is your open-source LLM really open? 🧐 speakerdeck.com/marcobonzani...