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Data Scientist and recovering high-energy astrophysicist. I also enjoy running, if somewhat slowly. All views are my own.

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PyData Southampton - 22nd Meetup, Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup **Venue**: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST **πŸ“’ Want to speak πŸ“’: [submit your talk proposal](https://bit.ly/pydataSoton-talks)** **Main Talks**

I'm looking forward to PyData Southampton next week - talks on Azure AI Foundry, astronomical image alignment and AI for sign language.

Sign up at www.meetup.com/pydata-south... and come along at 7pm Tues 17th at Carnival's HQ, Southampton

@pydatasoton.bsky.social #pydata #python #ml #ai

11.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Closing out the meetup is Stelios Christodoulou talking about GitHub Codespaces for Data Analysis

03.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2nd talk of the night is Jethro Reeve talking about "Explore the Kingdom: Cursor the Data Engineer" at @pydatalondon.bsky.social

03.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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1st talk of the evening is from Yusuf Ganiyu on "Agentic Workflows for Data Engineers" @pydatalondon.bsky.social

03.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Time for the 105th @pydatalondon.bsky.social meetup, with an intro from inimitable @johnsandall.bsky.social - and an appropriate big advert for the summer PyData London 2026 conference. Get your tickets now

03.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up we have "From Zero to HyperPod: Cutting Infrastructure Complexity for Distributed Model Training on AWS" by Anton Nazaruk

03.02.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First up we have David Salvador-Jasin from the Turing Institute talking about "SVD-ROM: Reduced Order Modeling of huge arrays using the Singular Value Decomposition"

03.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Time for the 104th PyData London meetup! @pydatalondon.bsky.social #pydata

03.02.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From small beginnings to great things! @emlynclay.bsky.social tells us the history of PyData London.

07.10.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s finally time! πŸ₯³ PyData London 100 is here! πŸ’―

07.10.2025 18:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up we have Sam Joseph LLMs can tell jokes, but they’re pretty bad. Sam found he can breed better jokes using ideas from evolutionary computingβ€”with pretty decent results!

07.10.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now hearing from Victor Zommers on his experiments getting LLMs to play Go. They were not good, not only losing to KataGo but also Wally, developed in 1981 with just 7 rules.

07.10.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up Why Python is the best language for algorithmic trading from @richardhickling.bsky.social

07.10.2025 19:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now hearing HangMAN vs AI - Kavit Tolia

Learnings building a custom transformer to play hangman.

07.10.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Best quote of the night, "The best way to learn is to teach (or to mislead with confidence!)"

07.10.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations @pydatalondon.bsky.social on your πŸ’― th meetup; I've been here since Meetup number 4 and this community is awesome! #datascience #machinelearning #python

07.10.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Talks I'm looking forward to today:
- GenAI governance (Maarten de Ruiter)
- Fraud detection w/ minimal labels (Jaap Stefels & Itzel Belderbos)

Let’s go! πŸš€

25.09.2025 09:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 1 βœ… Tutorial Day at #PyDataAmsterdam

I gave a packed intro to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) β€” great questions, great energy (even when the demo gods πŸ‘€ had their fun).

Now onto 2 days of talks, celebrating 10 years of PyData Amsterdam πŸŽ‰

#PyData #MCP #LLMs #DataScience

25.09.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well that was unexpected; I arrived at @pydatalondon.bsky.social as an attendee and ended up as the August Meetup MC!

05.08.2025 18:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks for attending, glad you enjoyed it.

07.06.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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IT’S HERE! PyData London 2025 has officially KICKED OFF! 🀩 This event would not be possible without the support of our entire open source community, and we can’t wait to put on a show for you! Without further ado, welcome to PyData London 2025! πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ❀️

06.06.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just finished a great tutorial from Samuel Joseph taking us step-by-step through creating a simple GPT model… to tell knock knock jokes. And building intuitive visualisations along the way!

06.06.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to the PyData main conference! πŸŽ‰ @jaspajjr.bsky.social getting things going with opening remarks alongside Andy Terrel from @numfocus.bsky.social

07.06.2025 08:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Lightning talk slots already filling up! Want to share something cool with the rest of the conference? Sign up at the @numfocus.bsky.social booth!

07.06.2025 09:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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mlops-zoomcamp/02-experiment-tracking at main Β· DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Free MLOps course from DataTalks.Club. Contribute to DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp development by creating an account on GitHub.

🐾 Week 2 of the Zoomcamp is all about MLFlow; tracking experiments and registering models github.com/DataTalksClu...

27.05.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@johnsandall.bsky.social is a great speaker and long-time contributor to the @pydata.bsky.social community. I think it's fair to say that I've learned something new every time I've attended one of his talks!

22.05.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tony Mears, an NHS Director in strategy & innovation, authored β€˜Innovation is Dead’ to boost public sector innovation. Previously, he led tech strategy and EU Exit talks at the UK Space Agency (UN delegate) and was deputy director of innovation for a new hospital programme.

20.05.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Leanne Kim Fitzpatrick, Financial Times' Data Science & AI Director, is a passionate data leader skilled in building teams and embedding data/AI solutions operationally, from startups to large firms. Active in the tech community, she shares best practices and advises academic AI programmes.

20.05.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 PyData London 2025 6-8 June | Talk spotlight

Are coding assistants as good as we thought in coding? -- @cheukting.bsky.social

Coding assistants seem to be everywhere these days. But exactly what can these agents do well? Will AI take my job?

Get your tickets here today!
pydata.org/london2025

22.05.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm really excited for this year's PyData London conference - there are some awesome talks on the schedule and I'm excited to hear the keynote speakers @jayalammar.bsky.social, Tony Wears, & Leanne Fitzpatrick

#pydata #datascience

20.05.2025 17:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0