PyDataMCR

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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/