Unionising your workplace - mapping and organising
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Hi everyone, it's been a little while since our last meetup but we're going to pick the schedule back up with a couple of sessions on organising your workplace, mapping a union and having those initial conversations with co-workers.
How do you start to unionise? What are your responses to people who are apprehensive? How do you pinpoint the issues and gather support? Get tips on these questions (and more!) and start to mould your workplace into a fairer and more equal space for everyone.
We're running two sessions - one in the afternoon (1pm-3pm) and another in the evening (6pm-8pm), so pick whichever one fits your schedule.
Unionising your workplace - mapping and organising
Description changed:
Hi everyone, it's been a little while since our last meetup but we're going to pick the schedule back up with a couple of sessions on organising your workplace, mapping a union and having those initial conversations with co-workers.
How do you start to unionise? What are your responses to people who are apprehensive? How do you pinpoint the issues and gather support? Get tips on these questions (and more!) and start to mould your workplace into a fairer and more equal space for everyone.
We're running two sessions - one in the afternoon (1pm-3pm) and another in the evening (6pm-8pm), so pick whichever one fits your schedule.
Unionising your workplace - mapping and organising
Description changed:
Hi everyone, it's been a little while since our last meetup but we're going to pick the schedule back up with a couple of sessions on organising your workplace, mapping a union and having those initial conversations with co-workers.
How do you start to unionise? What are your responses to people who are apprehensive? How do you pinpoint the issues and gather support? Get tips on these questions (and more!) and start to mould your workplace into a fairer and more equal space for everyone.
We're running two sessions - one in the afternoon (1pm-3pm) and another in the evening (6pm-8pm), so pick whichever one fits your schedule.
Unionising your workplace - mapping and organising
Description changed:
Hi everyone, it's been a little while since our last meetup but we're going to pick the schedule back up with a couple of sessions on organising your workplace, mapping a union and having those initial conversations with co-workers.
How do you start to unionise? What are your responses to people who are apprehensive? How do you pinpoint the issues and gather support? Get tips on these questions (and more!) and start to mould your workplace into a fairer and more equal space for everyone.
We're running two sessions - one in the afternoon (1pm-3pm) and another in the evening (6pm-8pm), so pick whichever one fits your schedule.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-e9m01nfk-Il55YpFGmM_BBt95DdXcPg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
Is your business using your output - Presentation by Martin Thorn (Head of Data Science) - Standard Life Aberdeen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-thorn
This event is part of the Scotland Fintech Festival - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
In many ways these are the glory days of machine learning. More and more companies are building machine learning capability and every other company statement talks about data being critical to their survival.
There is a downside to this hype and enthusiasm - the need for real, actionable, measurable output. How do you measure the usefulness of machine learning? To me the most obvious answer is - does the business rely on your output?
Welcome to our latest virtual PyData Edinburgh! As in the case of the last one, we're keeping this into the 1-hour format, and we will have a main talk plus a Q&A session at the end. We will meet at 6pm, use the Zoom link which will be provided in the registration email once you RSVP.
As always, let us know if you would like to give a talk, whether a main or a lightning one, we're always looking out for speakers (as you know!).
Ben Batorsky
Ben is a freelance Data Scientist working across industries (government, infrastructure, health) to build data science capacity and create tools and models for business impact. He has extensive experience in the field of Natural Language Processing and the use of multi-modal datasets.
A common task in processing text data is to identify named subjects such as companies and products. This is referred to as Named Entity Recognition (NER). In this talk, I will provide an overview of model-based NER and focus on an application using the spaCy NLP library on a non-English text corpus. I will discuss how to structure data for this task and considerations when evaluating results.
LOGISTICS
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1755: Zoom Waiting room will open
1800: Meetup will start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, and then Q&A
We'll aim to be finished by 1900
REMOTE MEETINGS
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Please remember the Code of Conduct applies to a remote meeting as well.
When you join the meeting, your microphone will be muted, and your camera switched on, we miss you all, it's nice to see you! Once the talk starts, feel free to switch your camera off.
We'll use the chat channel in Zoom to deal with any issues, and we'll advise on how we will run the Q&A at the start of the session.
SPONSORS
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While we might not be making such full use of our sponsors as we normally do, we still appreciate all they do for us to allow us to run this group - so thanks to Cathcart Associates, Wood Mackenzie, Solarwinds, Lloyds Banking, Canon Medical and Effini.
CODE OF CONDUCT
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Though virtual, our Code of Conduct still applies to all attendees, organisers and speakers. Please take the time to read through if you haven't before, we really appreciate your help to maintain a welcoming and friendly PyData community.
The PyData Code of Conduct (https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/) governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the local group organizers (message us on the meetup page). Please also submit a report of any potential Code of Conduct violation directly to NumFOCUS using the link found at https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct.
