PyDataMCR

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 18, James Fielder, Jennifer and John are talking functional programming, typing and data engineering. 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 James Fielder LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcfielder/ Cox Automotive - https://www.coxauto.co.uk/our-brands/data-solutions/ Lambda Lounge - http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/ mypy - http://mypy-lang.org/ Dagster - https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster Marquez - https://marquezproject.github.io/marquez/ Waimak - https://github.com/CoxAutomotiveDataSolutions/waimak Mentions Claire McDonald - https://twitter.com/squarejazz Gemma Cameron - https://twitter.com/ruby_gem Li Haoyi - https://twitter.com/li_haoyi / https://www.lihaoyi.com/ Lambda Lounge - https://twitter.com/lambdamcr Social Meetup -meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR Twitter - @PyDataMCR

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 17, Eslene Bikoumou, Jennifer and John are talking about Game Theory and what does Data Engineering look like at a Manchester based start up. 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 Eslene Bikoumou LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eslene-bikoumou/ Agent Software https://www.agentsoftware.net/ Mentions Phillip Bates - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-bates-1a33a94b/ Dr James Burridge - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/james-burridge Social Meetup -meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR Twitter - @PyDataMCR

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 16, Adam Fletcher, Jennifer and John are talking about Adams journey from industry, to academia and back again; and some insight into the world of data science consulting. 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: Adam Fletcher LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamfletcheruk/ Equal Experts https://www.equalexperts.com/ Social: Meetup -meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR Twitter - @PyDataMCR

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

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 14, today Jennifer and John are talking about Recommender Systems, where you can find them, and why they are still so difficult 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: Netflix Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize Youtube Recommendation System https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07326 Google Recommenation System Course https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/recommendation AirBnB Paper https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/listing-embeddings-for-similar-listing-recommendations-and-real-time-personalization-in-search-601172f7603e Social Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR Twitter - @PyDataMCR

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 13, today we are talking to our friends at Open Data Manchester about how it came to be, and what the past decade has held in store. Guests Julian - @Julianlstar Sam - @milsomsam http://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk 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: How can open data support public policy? https://twitter.com/thomasforth/status/1233103022970081281?s=20 Admiration: InnovateHer - https://www.innovateher.co.uk/ Tech for Good Live - https://www.techforgood.live Open Heroines - https://openheroines.org/ Social Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR Twitter - @PyDataMCR

Welcome to PyDataMCR Episode 12, This episode is all about Natural Language Processing, specifically Sentiment Analysis. Listen for our take on the approach to the complexity of text data, how we prepare the data, and the tools we can use to tease out sentiment. Sponsors LadBible - ladbible.com/ Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Resources Tutorials Natural Language Processing https://www.kaggle.com/learn/natural-language-processing Word embeddings for sentiment analysis https://towardsdatascience.com/word-embeddings-for-sentiment-analysis-65f42ea5d26e Sentiment Analysis in R https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/tutorial-sentiment-analysis-in-r Tools NLTK - https://www.nltk.org/ SpaCy - https://spacy.io/ TextBlob - https://textblob.readthedocs.io/en/dev/ VADER - https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment Google Natural Language API - https://cloud.google.com/natural-language Azure Text Analytics API https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/cognitive-services/text-analytics/ Social Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR Twitter - @PyDataMCR

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 Reinforcement Learning to Rank with Markov Decision Process- http://bigdatalab.ac.cn/~junxu/publications/SIGIR2017_RL_L2R.pdf Reinforcement Learning to Rank in E-Commerce Search Engine: Formalization, Analysis, and Application arxiv.org/abs/1803.00710 medium.com/@alitech_2017/unlocking-insights-from-multi-round-searches-with-reinforcement-learning-74f7143acf08 youtube.com/watch?v=AXa3CW68xks 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

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 10 , This episode was recorded throughout our weekend Hacktoberfest event. We ran this event in tandem with PythonNW, DjangoGirls, PyLadiesNW, Rladies and HER+Data and as such this podcast dips into multiple different communities. Listen on as we talk to maintainers of open source libraries, contributors and more. Show Notes Sponsors Cathcart Associates - https://www.cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - https://horseflyanalytics.com/ CodeNation - https://wearecodenation.com/ Show Notes - Pick N Mix Cheuk Ting Ho - twitter.com/cheukting_ho Pick N Mix Repo - github.com/picknmix/picknmix Python Sprints - twitter.com/py_sprints AI Club Gender & Minority - twitter.com/AIClubGenderMin Show Notes - libreML Adam - twitter.com/adds68 Chris - twitter.com/cphang909 LibreML - gitlab.com/libreml/libreml LibreML Twitter - twitter.com/LibreMl Show Notes - PythonNW Lucy Bridge - twitter.com/LinuxLucy Adam Shackleton - twitter.com/Adamshackleton Python NW - twitter.com/pythonnw

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 9 , today we are talking to Ellen Talbot, a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool in the Geographic Data Science Lab. Ellen talks with us about smart people in academia and smart meters in energy usage. Sponsors LadBible - https://www.ladbible.com/ Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ RLadies Manchester - https://www.meetup.com/rladies-manchester/ Rstudio - https://rstudio.com/ Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/ Spyder - https://www.spyder-ide.org/ Jupyterlab - https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ LockeData - https://itsalocke.com/ Honeycomb Analytics - https://honeycomb-analytics.com/ Admires Hannah Fry - https://twitter.com/FryRsquared Deep mind podcast - https://deepmind.com/blog/article/welcome-to-the-deepmind-podcast Hello World book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-World-How-Human-Machine/dp/0857525247

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/

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 7, today we are talking to Rachael Ainsworth who is a Research Associate in Radio Astronomy and Open Science Champion at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, which is part of the University of Manchester, UK. Rachael talks about Open Science, Imposters Syndrome and construction of the Square Kilometre Array. Show Notes Square kilometre array - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array Astropy - https://www.astropy.org/ Docker - https://www.docker.com/ Singularity - https://singularity.lbl.gov/ The Carpentries - https://carpentries.org/ Rachaels’ TedX Macclesfield talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-bemNZ-IqA Bluedot - https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/ HER+Data - https://www.meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ FOSTER - https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/ Rachels’ Github - https://rainsworth.github.io/ Figshare - https://figshare.com/ Zenodo - https://zenodo.org/ Shout outs Beckie Taylor https://twitter.com/RTaylor81 Professor Anna Scaife https://twitter.com/radastrat Kirsty Devlin https://twitter.com/Kirstydevlin1 Faye Gabe - https://twitter.com/FeyAgape SponsorsCathcart Associates - https://www.cathcartassociates.com/

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 6, today we are talking to Tania Allard who is a Developer Advocate for Microsoft here in Manchester. Find out what a developer advocate does. We discuss advice for dealing with burnout in the modern world. Show Notes Tania twitter.com/@ixek Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/ Azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/ QuantStack - https://quantstack.net/ NIPS - https://nips.cc/ Binder - https://gke.mybinder.org/ Shout outs - Carol Willing - twitter.com/@WillingCarol - Katharine Jarmul - twitter.com/@kjam - Satya Nandela - twitter.com/@satyanadella - Wes McKinney - twitter.com/@wesmckinn - Limor Fried - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ladyada/ Sponsors Cathcart Associates - https://www.cathcartassociates.com/

Today we talk about data in dating(I am sure there is an obvious pun there). Are you aware of the white label sites that share your data? How can a dating sights interests align with yours if it’s in their interests to keep you single? We talk with self-professed dating expert Ian Forrester to find out more. Ian Forrester is a well known character on the digital scene in the UK and Europe. Living in Manchester, UK, he works for the BBC's R&D Future Experiences team. He specialises in open innovation and new disruptive opportunities; by creating tangible value with open engagement and collaborations with start-ups, universities and early adopters. His achievements recently were noticed by the Inclusive board, landing him in the top 100 diverse leaders in the UK. Previously a founder of the dataportability.org group, social geek events, including London Geekdinners, BarCampLondon, London Hackday, Edinburgh TV Un-Festival and Over the Air. Show Notes https://clickclickclick.click - spooky tracking website Match Group profits - https://tcrn.ch/2ZksBTI Dataclysm - https://amzn.to/2wVk9hG HDI - https://bbc.in/2MExaqA Jeni Tennison - https://twitter.com/jenit?lang=en

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 4 , today we are talking with Leanne Fitzpatrick, Head of Data at Hello Soda. Leanne is a Passionate data leader with experience developing, implementing and growing a data analytics and data science function within (what was) a start up business, and is an advocate of getting data science straight into production. We gave some fan service by talking about american football for our american audience, and some beer chat for our Manchester audience too! Show Notes Docker - https://www.docker.com/ Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/ Anaconda - https://www.anaconda.com/ Martin Fowler on refactoring - https://www.martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html Lime - R package - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lime/vignettes/Understanding_lime.html Airflow - https://airflow.apache.org/ Git lfs - https://git-lfs.github.com/ Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io/ Go cd - https://www.gocd.org/ Hypotheses - https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Brewery recommendations Zilker Brewery Hops & Grain Blue Owl Lazarus Jester King Special mention to cool, welcoming bars: Latchkey, Hi Hat Edited by Jack Ridley

Description Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 3 , today we are talking about forecasting with Kaylea Haynes, data science team leader at Peak here in Manchester. Kaylea is involved in RLadies Manchester and has a great presence in the data community here in Manchester and seems to have the impressive skill of being everywhere at once. Show Notes ARIMA Python - bit.ly/2Z6VMKB ARIMA R - bit.ly/2IpErqs Fb prophet -bit.ly/2X6U9uS Forecasting book - amzn.to/2KsLuBr Croston method - bit.ly/2Ueupuy Ts intermittent - bit.ly/2Z6iMtn Forecast package r - bit.ly/2UfmTzE Tidyverse - bit.ly/2KuX139 Rob Hyndman forecasting book - bit.ly/2v1wq3a Hyndsight blog - bit.ly/2KsT4Mk Nikolaos Kourentzes and One number forecast -bit.ly/2GgWeyw Hadley wickham - bit.ly/2Z7w2Oo Great women in tech - https://bit.ly/2GeeGH8 Peak - peak.ai/

Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 2, today we are talking to Liam Wilson from Cathcart Associates, an independent technology recruitment company. If you’re in Data in Manchester or Edinburgh chances are you already know Liam as one of the organisers of MancML, and also the sponsor of PyDataMCR and PyDataEdinburgh.From what we have seen of Liam, and Cathcart Associates is that they have a better understanding of what data science actually consists of, and give back to the communities they are a part of. We discuss the elusive “trophy data scientist”, as well as some tips for anybody in data and a discussion of expected salaries. Show Notes Cathcart associates - https://www.cathcartassociates.com/ Speakers Form - https://buff.ly/2MZtdJw Slack link - https://bit.ly/2v60ieu

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/

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/