This month we are delighted to welcome Michael Haigney, who will be sharing his experience onboarding and leading a team of UX volunteers at Protect Our Winters.
We'll also be inviting you to chat about what you've been up to and/or pose any UXey questions that may be on your mind.
6.30pm - Intro & community announcements
6.45pm - Breakout chat
7pm - Talk: Design 4 Good (Michael Haigney)
7.30pm - Group thoughts, questions & discussion.
About the talk:
What happens when you combine a project with purpose, with a design thinking led approach and an awesome group of volunteers? Lead volunteer experience designer, Michael Haigney, will share how volunteers were recruited, onboarded and motivated to deliver an extensive research and idea visualisation in just 8 weeks, delivering an accessibility audit, customer journey maps, heuristics review, wireframes, a working prototype and a design system!
Charity volunteer success story with Protect Our Winters
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What happens when you combine a project with purpose, with a design thinking lead approach and an awesome group of volunteers?
Lead volunteer experience designer, Michael Haigney, will share how volunteers where recruited, onboarded and motivated to deliver a do extensive research and idea visualisation in just 8 weeks.
The volunteers delivered an accessibility audit, customer journey maps, heuristics review, wireframes, a working prototype and a design system that exceeded the trustees expectations at charity, Protect Our Winters UK, POW. They can see the design system being adopted by the rest of the EU chapters and possible the USA, where the charity was formed.
Also:
* Project updates. Hear how our current volunteer projects are doing. There will be opportunities to volunteer and take part!
* Opportunity for charities to request help and seek advice with most pressing digital challenges
* A chance to meet other members of the Digital For Good community
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
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This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Hosted by the The Open Ambient Assisted Living project, part of the Heriot-Watt National Robotarium, the Robotics + Care Mashup will bring together academics, care providers and technologists to develop solutions for assisted living.
In advance of the hackathon, we'll be running a free co-design workshop for our community in partnership with the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre.
If you have an idea for a potential project, or just want to be inspired, join us for a guided conversation co-facilitated by the Open Ambient Assisted Living Project and DHI where we'll explore, with an emphasis on user-centred design, challenges in the care sector.
This is an opportunity to meet other event participants in a relaxed environment and find a collaborator to work with for the event.
There's no need to book and anyone thinking about participating is welcome to join.
You can obtain the public meeting link via our free community hub.
Hosted by the The Open Ambient Assisted Living project, part of the Heriot-Watt National Robotarium, the Robotics + Care Mashup will bring together academics, care providers and technologists to develop solutions for assisted living.
In advance of the hackathon, we'll be running a free co-design workshop for our community in partnership with the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre.
If you have an idea for a potential project, or just want to be inspired, join us for a guided conversation co-facilitated by the Open Ambient Assisted Living Project and DHI where we'll explore, with an emphasis on user-centred design, challenges in the care sector.
This is an opportunity to meet other event participants in a relaxed environment and find a collaborator to work with for the event.
There's no need to book and anyone thinking about participating is welcome to join.
Hosted by Product Forge & the The Open Ambient Assisted Living project, part of the Heriot-Watt National Robotarium, the Robotics + Care Mashup will bring together academics, care providers and technologists to develop solutions for assisted living.
Get immersed in a real product development process over the course of a week, with delegates from all around the country. You'll own everything you develop and set your own metrics for success. Whether your goal is to develop your skills, solve a specific challenge, find a future collaborator, or simply meet like minded people - please get on board!
Explore the use of emerging technology including cloud, robotic and the internet of things equipped with machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. These can be used to enable non-intrusive monitoring of behaviour and vital signs, detect patterns and trends in behaviour and individual health status, identify problems, support self-management, decision-making and risk assessment, triage issues, facilitate communication and social connectedness, and provide social, cognitive and physical assistance when needed.
We'll be hosting produce development sessions and workshops from companies providing technical support, including APIs and sensor kits, as well as exploring topics such as ethics and cybersecurity.
Hosted by the The Open Ambient Assisted Living project, part of the Heriot-Watt National Robotarium, the Robotics + Care Mashup will bring together academics, care providers and technologists to develop solutions for assisted living.
Get immersed in a real product development process over the course of a week, with delegates from all around the country. You'll own everything you develop and set your own metrics for success. Whether your goal is to develop your skills, solve a specific challenge, find a future collaborator, or simply meet like minded people - please get on board!
Explore the use of emerging technology including cloud, robotic and the internet of things equipped with machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. These can be used to enable non-intrusive monitoring of behaviour and vital signs, detect patterns and trends in behaviour and individual health status, identify problems, support self-management, decision-making and risk assessment, triage issues, facilitate communication and social connectedness, and provide social, cognitive and physical assistance when needed.
We'll be hosting produce development sessions and workshops from companies providing technical support, including APIs and sensor kits, as well as exploring topics such as ethics and cybersecurity.
For this one, we're keeping it nice and informal.
We invite you to share something about what you've been up to and/or pose any UXey questions on your mind.
Doesn't have to be long, don't have to be pretty. Just something to get the conversation going...
If you've something to say, drop me a note on Slack:
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-ll1qm8t1-mhrms4D7LOpDGXiZJfO1VA
This month we welcome Michael Haigney, who will be sharing his experience onboarding and leading a team of UX volunteers at Protect Our Winters.
6.30pm - Intro & community announcements
6.45pm - Talk: Design 4 Good (Michael Haigney)
7.30pm - Over to you (details tbc)
About the talk:
What happens when you combine a project with purpose, with a design thinking led approach and an awesome group of volunteers? Lead volunteer experience designer, Michael Haigney, will share how volunteers were recruited, onboarded and motivated to deliver an extensive research and idea visualisation in just 8 weeks, delivering an accessibility audit, customer journey maps, heuristics review, wireframes, a working prototype and a design system!
Chris Hutchinson - Location data analysis through the prism of time
We’ll briefly look at why location analysis needs to be thought of in terms of time and not distance. After all, none of us can travel as the crow flies, and we are all at the mercy of the transport networks around us to navigate the world.
Then we'll dive into how we made this possible at TravelTime, touching on some of the data sets we use, the models and algorithms we’ve built on top of these, and how we then make this accessible to users.
Finally we’ll go into a live demo, showing how the technology can be used to visualise data and answer some real-world questions in location analytics.
Bio
Chris joined TravelTime a couple of years ago as Product Manager, responsible for building integrations between the TravelTime API and other third-party analytics platforms. He now heads up the Customer Success team, working closely with clients across all industries to help them enhance their location search and analytics capabilities with travel time data.
Company (https://traveltime.com)
TravelTime provides a set of APIs and GIS analytics plugins that enable the world to be searched and analysed by time instead of by distance. The breadth of use cases for the technology is incredibly broad, but can be roughly broken down into two categories:
• Search clients use the API to sort and rank results by travel time when a user searches on their website, such as property sites, job sites, and hotel booking sites
• Analytics clients use our tools to enhance their business intelligence capabilities, and make better decisions such as retail store site selection, office relocations, and sales territories
Strath Slater - Edinburgh: A 20 Minute City?
The concept of the ‘20-Minute Neighbourhood’ - a well connected neighbourhood with all of the amenities people require to meet their everyday needs within a 20 minute return walk or cycle – has been gaining momentum, with high profile trials planned in Paris and Melbourne.
Using spatial analysis of openly available data, buildings in Edinburgh were ranked according to whether or not they are within a 20 minute return walk of a supermarket, GP surgery, school, green recreational space and bus stop.
The results yield some interesting patterns and raise questions about the success of formalised planning in developing liveable and practical urban spaces which meet people’s everyday needs.
Bio
Strath is an Associate at Galbraith, where he uses spatial analysis to deliver projects in the renewable energy, utilities, rural, forestry and commercial property sectors.
He spends his time figuring out how to tell complex stories with spatial data and enjoys using maps as vehicles to encourage people to engage with, interpret and understand an issue.
He can be found on Twitter (@StrathSlater) and linkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/strathslater), where he posts maps and spatial data visualisations.
As usual we encourage interaction so please feel free to ask questions, technical, aesthetic or otherwise, of the speakers and each other.
If you have any speakers or topics you would like to suggest for future events, let us know!
Scientific visualization combines the complexities of science, the technical rigor of programming, the challenges of effective teaching and the creative possibilities of art and design. It is typically used in one of two ways:
1) to clarify and communicate and
2) to help explore and analyze large data sets.
However, one of the most powerful yet little-recognized benefits of visualization is the way it synthesizes our knowledge and externalizes our mental models. In fact, many designers and animators report anecdotally that scientists with whom they collaborate gain new insights into their science as a result of creating visualizations: ‘visual thinking’ triggered during this process sheds new light on otherwise familiar data. How exactly does visualization trigger such cognitive benefits and how can it be leveraged to improve research and communication? This presentation will offer insights into these questions while drawing on a broad range of examples selected from our portfolio of work across the life sciences. In particular, I will share our efforts to create a continuous dynamic model of how the SARS CoV-2 spike protein induces membrane fusion as it transitions from prefusion, to prehairpin and postfusion conformational intermediates. Our modeling and simulation work offers insights into the mechanism of action of a recently published class of SARS CoV-2 fusion inhibitors delivered by nasal spray.
BIO
Gaël is faculty and Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School, where his teaching and research focuses on visualization design and assessment methods in science education. He is also founder & CEO of Digizyme, Inc. (www.digizyme.com) a firm dedicated to the visualization and communication of science. [Showreel: www.digizyme.com/reel.html ]
Dr. McGill recently co-authored and served as digital director for E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth iBooks biology textbook. He is the creator of the scientific visualization online community portal Clarafi.com (originally molecularmovies.com), the Molecular Maya (mMaya) software toolkit and has contributed to leading Maya and ZBrush textbooks for Wiley/SYBEX Publishing. Dr. McGill was also a board member of the Vesalius Trust and remains an advisor to several biotechnology and device companies.
After his B.A. summa cum laude in Biology, Music, and Art History from Swarthmore College, and Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals fellow, Dr. McGill completed his postdoctoral work at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute studying tumor cell apoptosis and melanoma.
For this one, we're keeping it nice and informal.
We invite you to share something about what you've been up to and/or pose any UXey questions on your mind.
Doesn't have to be long, don't have to be pretty. Just something to get the conversation going...
If you've something to say, drop me a note on Slack:
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-ll1qm8t1-mhrms4D7LOpDGXiZJfO1VA
This month we welcome Michael Haigney, who will be sharing his experience onboarding and leading a team of UX volunteers at Protect Our Winters.
6.30pm - Intro & community announcements
6.45pm - Talk: Design 4 Good (Michael Haigney)
7.30pm - Over to you (details tbc)
About the talk:
What happens when you combine a project with purpose, with a design thinking led approach and an awesome group of volunteers? Lead volunteer experience designer, Michael Haigney, will share how volunteers were recruited, onboarded and motivated to deliver an extensive research and idea visualisation in just 8 weeks, delivering an accessibility audit, customer journey maps, heuristics review, wireframes, a working prototype and a design system!
Covid-19, Brexit, and the rollout of new technologies present new challenges to our fundamental rights, both on and offline. Voters in Scotland will soon go to the polls to have their say on these issues and many more. But what do the parties have to say about them?
Join us for a live-streamed candidate hustings, jointly organised by Amnesty Scotland and Open Rights Group Scotland, focused on questioning political parties’ policies on a variety of Human and Digital Rights issues.
Find out where your candidates and parties stand on important issues like the role of the Human Rights Act in Scotland’s pandemic recovery and the use of digital surveillance technologies by Police Scotland.
Got a question for the candidates?
Use this form to submit a question about human and digital rights in advance.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-ll1qm8t1-mhrms4D7LOpDGXiZJfO1VA
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
In our May 2021 meetup we're joined by Athanasia Monika Mowinckel. Athanasia is a researcher at the Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, organiser for R-Ladies Oslo, and is a member of the R-Ladies Global team.
Zhoosh up your ggplots!
In this talk Athanasia will share with us her tips and tricks for enhancing (zhooshing up!) your data visualisations made with ggplot2.
Password for the Zoom session will be sent out on the day of the event.
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R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
A question we often get is "Are men welcome to attend this event?"
As a diversity initiative, the mission of R-Ladies is to achieve proportionate representation by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently underrepresented in the R community. R-Ladies’ primary focus, therefore, is on supporting minority gender R enthusiasts to achieve their programming potential, by building a collaborative global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers to facilitate individual and collective progress worldwide.
**As such, we strongly encourage cis-men who attend this event to come as guests of R-Ladies who are minority genders (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender).**
All attendees are strongly encouraged to review the R-Ladies Code of Conduct (https://rladies.org/code-of-conduct) and must abide by it.
Our April meetup will be held jointly with EdinbR (https://www.meetup.com/EdinbR) and we will be joined by one of our organisers, Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel.
That’s what Nicola said:
A tidy case study of Nicola Sturgeon’s COVID-19 briefings
If you've also spent the last year watching the COVID-19 briefings almost daily, you might have also been thinking "I wonder what an analysis of this data would reveal". In this talk, Mine will walk you through a case study of Nicola Sturgeon's COVID-19 briefings, involving web scraping, text analysis, and modeling using tools from the tidyverse, tidytext, and tidymodels.
Password for the Zoom session will be sent out on the day of the event.
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R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
A question we often get is "Are men welcome to attend this event?"
As a diversity initiative, the mission of R-Ladies is to achieve proportionate representation by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently underrepresented in the R community. R-Ladies’ primary focus, therefore, is on supporting minority gender R enthusiasts to achieve their programming potential, by building a collaborative global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers to facilitate individual and collective progress worldwide.
**As such, we strongly encourage cis-men who attend this event to come as guests of R-Ladies who are minority genders (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender).**
All attendees are strongly encouraged to review the R-Ladies Code of Conduct (https://rladies.org/code-of-conduct) and must abide by it.
This month we'll be doing a little taster of a "Design Hop" workshop.
Design Hops are workshops to help charities get the right start on digital projects. They are provided free across the UK via CAST.
"By demystifying technology and design, and placing the focus on people not tech, this free online workshop and follow-up support helps you start your digital journey on the right foot."
For those interested in volunteering your professional skills, this taster will give a useful insight into the challenges faced by the 3rd sector.
If you work in a charity then come along and learn (or refresh) how a Design Hop could hep you.
We'll also do the the usual community catch ups, including project updates. Hear how our current volunteer projects are doing. There will be opportunities to volunteer and take part!
The meetups are also a great chance to meet other members of the Digital For Good community!
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.
It’s been 12 months since John Catnach joined Exizent as their first technical hire. At this month’s Lean Agile Edinburgh he joins us to talk through his experience of leaving the corporate world behind, building teams from scratch, focussing on agile principles and balancing tech debt and customer value all whilst a pandemic has been going on.
During this talk John will cover a variety of topics including:
- His background, drivers and goals for a green field team
- Building a team during a pandemic
- Delivery challenges - tech debt v customer value
- Remote working
We won’t be doing any breakout sessions this time but there will be plenty of time for Q&A
It’s been 12 months since John Catnach joined Exizent as their first technical hire. At this month’s Lean Agile Edinburgh he joins us to talk through his experience of leaving the corporate world behind, building teams from scratch, focussing on agile principles and balancing tech debt and customer value all whilst a pandemic has been going on.
During this talk John will cover a variety of topics including:
- His background, drivers and goals for a green field team
- Building a team during a pandemic
- Delivery challenges - tech debt v customer value
- Remote working
We won’t be doing any breakout sessions this time but there will be plenty of time for Q&A
We hope to see you there - the Zoom link will be available soon
This month, Tai will be giving a talk on Markdown.
Markdown allows creating text documents that can either be highly readable in text mode, or used to produce richly formatted content. Use it in Github repositores, for note-taking, and many more areas, or just to cleanly organise your note taking!
It’s been 12 months since John Catnach joined Exizent as their first technical hire. At this month’s Lean Agile Edinburgh he joins us to talk through his experience of leaving the corporate world behind, building teams from scratch, focussing on agile principles and balancing tech debt and customer value all whilst a pandemic has been going on.
During this talk John will cover a variety of topics including:
- His background, drivers and goals for a green field team
- Building a team during a pandemic
- Delivery challenges - tech debt v customer value
- Remote working
We’ll also have plenty of time for Q&A
We hope to see you there - the Zoom link will be available soon
Sorry folks - pushing this one back a couple of weeks...
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
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This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
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Jack Sleight & Dominic Pearce, Fios Genomics ( www.fiosgenomics.com )
Jack:
I'll 'show and tell' my covid Scotland app that I developed using the Shiny package in R. I'll aim to:
- Briefly introduce how Shiny works and how it aims to makes web development easy for novices like myself
- Explain the data sources, how the app manipulates the data and updates daily
- Walk through the app itself describing its basic structure and the motivation behind the design
Jack's Bio
I has been a Bioinformatician since October 2019 involved in a range of projects from profiling of disease vs. normal tissue using gene expression data, to utilising gene expression and whole genome sequencing data to try and identify novel biomarkers or gene signatures related to drug response in diseases such as breast cancer. He holds bioinformatics degrees from Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities.
Here's a brief interview with Jack about the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L165H0EYR5s
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Dominic:
The role of visualisation in defining immune cell subsets for single-cell RNA sequencing data
Bio:
Dominic is a Senior Bioinformatics Developer building tools for and analysing genomics data on cancer, drug development, machine learning and statistics.
He holds bioscience degrees from Nottingham, Leicester and a PhD from Edinburgh University, 'Breast cancer heterogeneity within the neoadjuvant window'.
N.b. The event link will be published and sent to attendees beforehand.
Knowledge Synthesis With Sci Vis (How SARS CoV-2 Spike Drives Membrane Fusion)
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Dr Gaël McGill
Scientific visualization combines the complexities of science, the technical rigor of programming, the challenges of effective teaching and the creative possibilities of art and design. It is typically used in one of two ways:
1) to clarify and communicate and
2) to help explore and analyze large data sets.
However, one of the most powerful yet little-recognized benefits of visualization is the way it synthesizes our knowledge and externalizes our mental models. In fact, many designers and animators report anecdotally that scientists with whom they collaborate gain new insights into their science as a result of creating visualizations: ‘visual thinking’ triggered during this process sheds new light on otherwise familiar data. How exactly does visualization trigger such cognitive benefits and how can it be leveraged to improve research and communication? This presentation will offer insights into these questions while drawing on a broad range of examples selected from our portfolio of work across the life sciences. In particular, I will share our efforts to create a continuous dynamic model of how the SARS CoV-2 spike protein induces membrane fusion as it transitions from prefusion, to prehairpin and postfusion conformational intermediates. Our modeling and simulation work offers insights into the mechanism of action of a recently published class of SARS CoV-2 fusion inhibitors delivered by nasal spray.
BIO
Gaël is faculty and Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School, where his teaching and research focuses on visualization design and assessment methods in science education. He is also founder & CEO of Digizyme, Inc. (www.digizyme.com) a firm dedicated to the visualization and communication of science. [Showreel: www.digizyme.com/reel.html ]
Dr. McGill recently co-authored and served as digital director for E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth iBooks biology textbook. He is the creator of the scientific visualization online community portal Clarafi.com (originally molecularmovies.com), the Molecular Maya (mMaya) software toolkit and has contributed to leading Maya and ZBrush textbooks for Wiley/SYBEX Publishing. Dr. McGill was also a board member of the Vesalius Trust and remains an advisor to several biotechnology and device companies.
After his B.A. summa cum laude in Biology, Music, and Art History from Swarthmore College, and Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals fellow, Dr. McGill completed his postdoctoral work at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute studying tumor cell apoptosis and melanoma.
N.b. The event link will be published to attendees just beforehand.
What can data scientists learn from data-driven responses to Covid-19?
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[Photo from Prachatai, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/prachatai/49616970132]
Welcome to PyData Edinburgh 2021, April edition! We've been quiet for a bit but we tonight have Matthew Higgs (who was one of the original founders of PyData Edinburgh!) with an interesting talk, so as always, get comfy and grab a beer. We hope to see you all in person at some point - not too far away?
As always, we're keeping this to a one hour session, and we will have a main talk plus a Q&A session at the end. We will meet at 6.30pm, use the Zoom link which will be provided in the registration email once you RSVP.
We want to very much keep this group alive, so let us know if you would like to give a talk in the future, whether a main or a lightning one, we're always looking out for speakers (as you know!).
MAIN TALK & SPEAKER BIO:
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What can data scientists learn from data-driven responses to Covid-19?
Data-driven responses to Covid-19 have been developed at speed across the public sector, academia, and commercial sector - leading to a range of successes, failures, and opportunities for lessons to be learned. At the ‘Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19’ (omddac.org.uk) we are analysing key data-driven responses to Covid-19 and collating lessons learned by way of stakeholder interviews, case study analysis, and representative public surveys. In this talk, I will highlight some key findings from our stakeholder interviews and reflect on the role of data science during the Covid-19 pandemic. I will discuss successful applications of data science, ethical issues to be aware of, and what stakeholders *really* think about working with data scientists.
Matthew Higgs MMath, PhD is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences at Northumbria University and a Co-Investigator on the UKRI-funded project ‘Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19’ (omddac.org.uk). Since completing his PhD in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College London in 2011, Matthew has worked in technical and non-technical roles in academia, the commercial sector, and the public sector - with a focus on managing diverse stakeholders and developing data-driven products and solutions.
LOGISTICS
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1825: Zoom Waiting room will open
1830: Meetup will start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, and then Q&A
We'll aim to be finished by 1930
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.
Join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
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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 month we are delighted to welcome Bobby King and Iain MacDonald of Haver Design Collective, who have been recently doing some digging into how the future of UX will be shaped by advances in AI, and the role that UX might play in the design of Machine Learning solutions.
We will be joined by a panel with expertise across data science, machine learning and UX so expect some lively discussion!
Agenda:
18:30 - Intro
18:35 - Intro to panel discussion (Bobby & Iain)
18:45 - Panel discussion: Machine Learning - the future of UX?
19:35 - Community announcements
19:45 - Breakout chat
20:00 - Audience Q&A
20:30 - End
Join our Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
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This month we are delighted to welcome Bobby King and Iain MacDonald of Haver Design Collective, who have been recently doing some digging into how the future of UX will be shaped by advances in AI, and the role that UX might play in the design of Machine Learning solutions.
We will be joined by a panel with expertise across data science, machine learning and UX so expect some lively discussion!
Agenda:
18:30 - Intro & community announcements
18:40 - Intro to panel discussion: (Bobby & Iain)
18:50 - Panel discussion: Machine Learning - the future of UX?
19:45 - Breakout chat
20:00 - Audience Q&A
20:30 - End
Join our Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-ll1qm8t1-mhrms4D7LOpDGXiZJfO1VA
This week we are delighted to welcome Bobby King and Iain MacDonald of Haver Design Collective, who have been recently doing some digging into how the future of UX will be shaped by advances in AI, and the role that UX might play in the design of Machine Learning solutions.
We will be joined by a panel with expertise across data science, machine learning and UX so expect some lively discussion!
Agenda:
18:30 - Intro & community announcements
18:40 - Intro to panel discussion: (Bobby & Iain)
18:50 - Panel discussion: Machine Learning - the future of UX?
19:45 - Breakout chat
20:00 - Audience Q&A
20:30 - End
Join our Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-ll1qm8t1-mhrms4D7LOpDGXiZJfO1VA
This week we are delighted to welcome Haver Design Collective, who have been recently doing some digging into how the future of UX might be shaped by Artificial Intelligence and the role that UX has to play in designing Machine Learning solutions.
We will be joined by a panel with expertise across data science, machine learning and UX so expect some lively discussion!
Further details to follow...
The meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
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I'll 'show and tell' my covid Scotland app that I developed using the Shiny package in R. I'll aim to:
- Briefly introduce how Shiny works and how it aims to makes web development easy for novices like myself
- Explain the data sources, how the app manipulates the data and updates daily
- Walk through the app itself describing its basic structure and the motivation behind the design
In the second half of the meeting, a colleague will talk more broadly about the sorts of analysis/ visualisations we do.
BIO
I have been working as a Bioinformatician since October 2019 following a masters in Bioinformatics from Glasgow University and a BSc in Biochemistry and Pharmacology from Strathclyde University. In my current role I have been involved in a whole range of different projects, from profiling of disease vs. normal tissue using gene expression data, to utilising gene expression and whole genome sequencing data to try and identify novel biomarkers or gene signatures related to drug response in diseases such as breast cancer.
Jack is a bioinformatician at Fios Genomics ( www.fiosgenomics.com ).
Here's a brief interview with Jack about the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L165H0EYR5s
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