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.)
Finding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques
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The 2nd of our summer talks, by Christopher Collins, Ontario Tech Institute, OT. Join us at
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/d6f968c9fe8e4a1382b2d4fc456a813d
This talk will be 30min, followed by 30min for questions and discussion.
Thu, July 9th, 5:30pm
Abstract: Text is one of the most prominent forms of open data available, from social media to legal decisions. Visual Text Analytics combines text data processing techniques with interactive visualizations to provide ways to observe trends, discover patterns, and find the right thing to read in large collections of text. I argue that text visualization is not a replacement for reading but can help someone form questions about a large text collection, then drill down to investigate through targeted reading of the underlying source documents. In this presentation I will overview some of the biggest challenges in working with text and highlight some case studies in visualizing text in a variety of domains, from security and passwords to digital humanities.
Bio: Dr. Christopher Collins holds the Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ontario Tech University. His research focus is interdisciplinary, combining information visualization and human-computer interaction with natural language processing to address the challenges of information management and the problems of information overload. Dr. Collins has published over 80 peer-reviewed contributions, many in top-tier venues such as ACM ToCHI and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. His research has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and CBS Sunday Morning. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Dr. Collins is a past member of the executive of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee and sits on the IEEE VIS Conference Organizing Committee.
I hope you are all doing well during these times. We are back with some exciting talks, scheduled talks over the next weeks—taking advantage of the online world to invite speakers from far away! Talks will be held online and details can be found here:
We will create individual meetups for each new talk and update information we obtain them.
All talks will happen here and the room will open 10min prior to the scheduled time. https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/join/962a01dc676049a5a30d0b0ac3cc78bc
As usual, all talks are open to everyone and we plan for 30min talk and 30min Q&A.
We start on Tuesday (tomorrow!!), July, 7 at 3:30 pm with Dr. Cagatay Turkay from the University of Warwick on Facilitating Well-Informed Data Science through Interactive Visual Analysis.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
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**Title:** Facilitating Well-Informed Data Science through Interactive Visual Analysis
**Abstract:** In this talk, I will talk about how interactive visualisations that are coupled tightly with algorithms offer effective methods in conducting data science in rigorous and critical ways. Such methods not only enhance the insights drawn but also support better-informed decisions made based on the outcomes. We will discuss how visualisation can facilitate such practices and will look at examples of research on how data can be transformed and visualised creatively in multiple perspectives, on how comparisons can be made within different models, parameters, and within local and global solutions, and on how interaction is an enabler for such processes.
**Bio:** Cagatay Turkay is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK. His research investigates the interactions between data, algorithms and people, and explores the role of interactive visualisation and other interaction mediums such as natural language at this intersection. He designs techniques and algorithms that are sensitive to their users in various decision-making scenarios involving primarily high-dimensional and spatio-temporal phenomena, and develops methods to study how people work interactively with data and computed artifacts.
This month we invite designers and researchers from London, Manchester and Edinburgh to join us in lively discussion around the role of ethics in design.
We are delighted to welcome:
Christina Connelly - Chief Experience Officer of Honey Badger
Brendan Hill - Sustainability Consultant
Mansoor Mir - Chartered Psychologist and User Researcher
Alex Nogues - Senior UX Consultant at Sopra Steria
Tom Norman - Head of Service Design at Barnardo's
As always, there'll be plenty of opportunity for you all to have your say too!
Agenda
6.30pm - Opening chat, community announcements.
6.50pm - Introducing our panel...
7pm - Panel discussion on design ethics
7.45pm - Thoughts & questions from the audience
8.15pm Closing chat.
The meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Hope to see you there!
Mike.
ps join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community! https://bit.ly/2ZUtIgw
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.
Edinburgh UX meetup - a conversation around design ethics
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This month we invite designers and researchers from London, Manchester and Edinburgh to join us in lively discussion around the role of ethics in design.
We are delighted to welcome:
Christina Connelly - Head of Experience Design @DigitalBridgeHQ and Co-Founder / CXO @HoneyBadgerHQ
Brendan Hill - Sustainability Consultant
Mansoor Mir - Chartered Psychologist and User Researcher
Alex Nogues - Senior UX Consultant at Sopra Steria
Tom Norman - Head of Service Design at Barnardo's
As always, there'll be plenty of opportunity for you all to have your say too!
Agenda
6.30pm - Opening chat, community announcements.
6.50pm - Introducing our panel...
7pm - Panel discussion on design ethics
7.45pm - Thoughts & questions from the audience
8.15pm Closing chat.
The meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
Click the link in the invite to enter the meeting.
Hope to see you there!
Mike.
ps join our new Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community! https://bit.ly/2ZUtIgw
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 7pm, 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!).
TALK: A beginner’s guide to web scraping in Python
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Caterina Constantinescu
In this talk I’ll be sharing my recent experiences with Scrapy, a tool for webscraping in Python. This introductory talk will briefly discuss some alternative tools within the webscraping landscape, then cover a few examples of increasing complexity (i.e., pages to scrape) - all accompanied by a discussion of the relevant Scrapy code generating the results, as well as some minimal examples of data wrangling used on the information extracted. In the interest of full disclosure, I will be discussing this topic from the perspective of a regular R user, but a Python neophyte - so feedback and advice will be welcome.
Bio: Dr Caterina Constantinescu is a data scientist working at Tesco Bank, whose past work ranges across areas such as research methods, national health data, occupational therapy, transport and data for good. Her academic background prior to this involved researching if various emotion-generating stimuli used in lab settings could approximate emotional states occurring in daily life. For several years she have also organised meetings for the R user group in Edinburgh (EdinbR), focusing on statistical programming.
LOGISTICS
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1855: Zoom Waiting room will open
1900: Meetup will start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, and then Q&A
We'll aim to be finished by 2000
REMOTE MEETINGS
===================
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
====================
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.
"The terminal is a familiar tool for many Linux users, and a spark for controversy on the desktop: is it an embarrassment that we still rely so much on the terminal, or is it an amazing power tool that puts the Windows command prompt in the shade? But what is the terminal, anyway? Where did it come from? What can you do with it? And why, in 2020, are so many programmers, sysadmins and computer enthusiasts still happily using such an old-fashioned interface?"
"The terminal is a familiar tool for many Linux users, and a spark for controversy on the desktop: is it an embarrassment that we still rely so much on the terminal, or is it an amazing power tool that puts the Windows command prompt in the shade? But what is the terminal, anyway? Where did it come from? What can you do with it? And why, in 2020, are so many programmers, sysadmins and computer enthusiasts still happily using such an old-fashioned interface?"
Is your business using your output - Martin Thorn (Head of Data Science)
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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/
From it's roots in software development, Agile has blossomed into many other areas of business. In HR it is transforming how organisations hire, develop and manage their people.
Agenda
Virtual networking - BYOB/pizza!
Talk - What is Agile HR? - Natal Dank
Discussion groups
Case study - transforming recruitment - Jennifer Kennedy
Panel/Q&A
Descriptions/Bios:
Natal Dank is co-founder of the Agile HR Community. She works with organisations both great and small to embrace the Agile mindset, redefine their culture and co-create healthy, happy and financially successful working environments.
@nataldank
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataldank/
https://www.agilehrcommunity.com/
Case study - transforming recruitment - Jennifer Kennedy
Jennifer will explain how an organisation applied agile methodologies to their existing recruitment process and completely transformed it. Find out how the employee experience was put right at the heart of the new design. Learn about the dramatically improved employee journey which lead to a reduction in short term turnover; a reduction in candidates dropping out between job offer and start date; an increase in employee experience and improved credibility with business areas. She will also touch on how to apply for the virtual world.
Jennifer has worked in various HR roles for the last 20 years, predominately in financial services. She started applying agile techniques to her work 5 years ago and now works as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach within the People function of a well known bank.
@gallopingcatast
https://linkedin.com/in/jennifer-kennedy-83b77414
Scottish Tech & Games sector guidance - open forum
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The Scottish Government are putting together COVID/'Safer workplace' guidance for the Tech sector with members of SG and Tech & Games industry leaders. As a trade union with members in the tech and games sector, we have a seat at the table and an important voice in this discussion.
We want to make sure we're covering all your concerns so we're holding an open forum on Friday 26th June at 2pm. If you work in the Scottish Tech/Games, *please* make use of this opportunity - this is a direct route to power. Help us amplify your voices.
If you can't make it on Friday, contact us with comments by the end of the week.
Topics to consider for the meeting:
- Safe Working from Home (WFH) practices, during lockdown and in the future - what are the specific pressure points here? Has your workplace aided in making your home office safe? Will this be enough if WFH continues?
- What broad-brush guidance could discriminate against workers? Eg, does a push towards WFH discriminate against BAME workers, disabled workers, workers with caring responsibilites? What can we secure in the guidance to mitigate against this?
- Safe freelancing, contracting, and managed workspaces - considerations about physical visits and where the line between your employer’s responsibilities and the responsibility of the contractor may lie.
- Incubators - do you work in, eg, Codebase or Techcube? How is your company working with everyone else in the building?
What are critical operational roles that require physical access to offices? How to we protect these roles being arbitrarily assigned, and how do we ensure these workers are protected?
- Union presence - STUC's roving Health & Safety reps. Where workplaces do not represent unions, employers or workers may request that a union representative from outside the workplace can become involved in the process of creating, evaluating or monitoring the COVID 19 risk assessments?
- How do we use this guidance to protect the mental health of tech & games workers?
- Are there unique health & safety considerations that are unique to tech & games - for example, necessary physical proximity? What shared equipment/shared spaces do you have?
As you can see there's a lot to discuss. We can continue this discussion as the sector guidance continues. You don't have to be in a trade union to participate, but we would hope that you might be convinced to join one by the end of the process.
Scottish Tech & Games sector guidance - open forum
Description changed:
The Scottish Government are putting together COVID/'Safer workplace' guidance for the Tech sector with members of SG and Tech & Games industry leaders. As a trade union with members in the tech and games sector, we have a seat at the table and an important voice in this discussion.
We want to make sure we're covering all your concerns so we're holding an open forum on Friday 26th June at 2pm. If you work in the Scottish Tech/Games, *please* make use of this opportunity - this is a direct route to power. Help us amplify your voices.
If you can't make it on Friday, contact us with comments by the end of the week.
Topics to consider for the meeting:
- Safe Working from Home (WFH) practices, during lockdown and in the future - what are the specific pressure points here? Has your workplace aided in making your home office safe? Will this be enough if WFH continues?
- What broad-brush guidance could discriminate against workers? Eg, does a push towards WFH discriminate against BAME workers, disabled workers, workers with caring responsibilites? What can we secure in the guidance to mitigate against this?
- Safe freelancing, contracting, and managed workspaces - considerations about physical visits and where the line between your employer’s responsibilities and the responsibility of the contractor may lie.
- Incubators - do you work in, eg, Codebase or Techcube? How is your company working with everyone else in the building?
What are critical operational roles that require physical access to offices? How to we protect these roles being arbitrarily assigned, and how do we ensure these workers are protected?
- Union presence - STUC's roving Health & Safety reps. Where workplaces do not represent unions, employers or workers may request that a union representative from outside the workplace can become involved in the process of creating, evaluating or monitoring the COVID 19 risk assessments?
- How do we use this guidance to protect the mental health of tech & games workers?
- Are there unique health & safety considerations that are unique to tech & games - for example, necessary physical proximity? What shared equipment/shared spaces do you have?
As you can see there's a lot to discuss. We can continue this discussion as the sector guidance continues. You don't have to be in a trade union to participate, but we would hope that you might be convinced to join one by the end of the process.
From it's roots in software development, Agile has blossomed into many other areas of business. In HR it is transforming how organisations hire, develop and manage their people.
Agenda
Virtual networking - BYOB/pizza!
Talk - What is Agile HR? - Natal Dank
Discussion groups
Case study - transforming recruitment - Jennifer Kennedy
Panel/Q&A
Descriptions/Bios:
Natal Dank is co-founder of the Agile HR Community. She works with organisations both great and small to embrace the Agile mindset, redefine their culture and co-create healthy, happy and financially successful working environments.
@nataldank
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataldank/
https://www.agilehrcommunity.com/
Case study - transforming recruitment - Jennifer Kennedy
Jennifer will explain how an organisation applied agile methodologies to their existing recruitment process and completely transformed it. Find out how the employee experience was put right at the heart of the new design. Learn about the dramatically improved employee journey which lead to a reduction in short term turnover; a reduction in candidates dropping out between job offer and start date; an increase in employee experience and improved credibility with business areas. She will also touch on how to apply for the virtual world.
Jennifer has worked in various HR roles for the last 20 years, predominately in financial services. She started applying agile techniques to her work 5 years ago and now works as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach within the People function of a well known bank.
https://linkedin.com/in/jennifer-kennedy-83b77414
From it's roots in software development, Agile has blossomed into many other areas of business. In HR it is transforming how organisations hire, develop and manage their people.
Agenda
Virtual networking - BYOB/pizza!
Talk - What is Agile HR? - Natal Dank
Break/Networking
Case study - transforming recruitment - Jennifer Kennedy
Descriptions/Bios:
Natal Dank is co-founder of the Agile HR Community. She works with organisations both great and small to embrace the Agile mindset, redefine their culture and co-create healthy, happy and financially successful working environments.
@nataldank
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataldank/
Case study - transforming recruitment - Jennifer Kennedy
Jennifer will explain how an organisation applied agile methodologies to their existing recruitment process and completely transformed it. Find out how the employee experience was put right at the heart of the new design. Learn about the dramatically improved employee journey which lead to a reduction in short term turnover; a reduction in candidates dropping out between job offer and start date; an increase in employee experience and improved credibility with business areas. She will also touch on how to apply for the virtual world.
Jennifer has worked in various HR roles for the last 20 years, predominately in financial services. She started applying agile techniques to her work 5 years ago and now works as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach within the People function of a well known bank.
https://linkedin.com/in/jennifer-kennedy-83b77414
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 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.)
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.
This month Gordon will be giving us a talk about rootkits:
"A rootkit is a set of tools used by hackers to enable (root) access to a server while hiding their malicious activity.
"Gordon will explain how different types of Linux rootkit might work along with some technical background context about how Linux works at a lower level."
The Companies We Keep: Building a network graph of UK corporate ownership data
Description changed:
Welcome to our third event in the series of virtual PyData Edinburgh! As per usual, 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!). Specifically, we'd like for the next event to be a lightning talks-only one, and we're looking for 5 speakers to give a lightning (5 mins!).
MAIN TALK:
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Bio: Adam is a recovering astrophysicist who made the transition to commercial data science 5 years ago. He is currently Lead Data Scientist at HAL24K, a smart-city startup. Adam is also a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Southampton and a core volunteer with DataKind UK.
Abstract: In June 2016 the UK government launched the world’s first open “beneficial ownership” register; a requirement for all UK companies to register who were the “persons of significant control”, PSCs, who actually controlled the company. In a partnership between DataKind UK and Global Witness we have built the worlds first network graph mapping all of the UK public data on those who control corporate interests in the UK; it comprises in excess of 4.5 million companies and 4 million individual people. It has been enriched with company officer data and metrics of financial secrecy based upon geographic regions.
The goal of the project was to enable Global Witness to search for “shady patterns” within corporate ownership networks to act as leads for investigative journalism to expose corrupt practices. Further more, we were able to analyse the completeness of the register and identify ways of improving such data structures to inform other world governments how to best build similar public registers of corporate ownership.
We present here how we built this amazing data structure using Python tools for cleaning and data processing and a Neo4j graph database storing the network graph itself. In addition, we share some of the insights derived from this process.
LOGISTICS
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1745: 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
===================
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
=============================
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
====================
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.
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
6.30pm - Intro & community announcements
7pm - UX and 'Defining the Damn Thing' (Chris Rourke, Founder & CEO of User Vision)
Can you define what User Experience means clearly, concisely and accurately to someone who doesn’t know what it is?
People seem increasingly keen to use the terms User Experience and UX in their work conversations. Does that mean there is a strong collective understanding about the meaning of UX and any differences with similar terms such as usability, customer experience, interaction design or service design? Do we actually need a formal definition of UX with clear parameters? Are different definitions appropriate depending on who you’re talking to?
In this talk Chris will lead group exercises around defining UX and discuss some common informal and formal definitions of UX and other related terms. Is there a consensus on the definitions? Come along, contribute and find out.
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
6.30pm - Intro & community announcements
7pm - UX and 'Defining the Damn Thing' (Chris Rourke, Founder & CEO of Uservision)
Can you define what User Experience means clearly, concisely and accurately to someone who doesn’t know what it is?
People seem increasingly keen to use the terms User Experience and UX in their work conversations. Does that mean there is a strong collective understanding about the meaning of UX and any differences with similar terms such as usability, customer experience, interaction design or service design? Do we actually need a formal definition of UX with clear parameters, or is it better to assume a “I know it when I see it” approach like that famously applied for obscene materials? Are different definitions appropriate depending on who you’re talking to?
In this talk Chris will lead group exercises around defining UX and discuss some common informal and formal definitions of UX and other related terms. Is there a consensus on the definitions? Come along, contribute and find out.
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.
Highly relevant at the moment is team motivation. We're delighted and privileged to have Sue Stockdale, adventurer, coach, speaker and author join us to share her experiences.
Talk:
In an extreme environment like the Arctic, if your team does not pull together, collaborate and look out for one another, the consequences could be drastic. Sue will talk about a Greenland expedition where she joined individuals from Norway and Germany to create a high performing team in a short space of time. Sue will explain how to motivate your team for success, how to overcome challenges, and the seven simple steps that can be accomplished in a week to help a team be motivated and focused.
Bio:
In 1994 Sue Stockdale became the first British woman to ski to the Magnetic North Pole. She has represented Scotland in athletics, participated in Channel 4’s Superhuman, led and participated in expeditions to Greenland, Antarctica, Chile, and is a patron for Ski4Cancer. Today Sue is an inspirational speaker and leadership coach to FTSE 250/Fortune 500 companies, elite sport, fast growth businesses and charities worldwide. She has authored several books on leadership and recently launched The Access to Inspiration www.accesstoinspiration.org podcast series.
Welcome to our second event in the series of 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 7pm, 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!).
MAIN TALK:
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Bio: Following a career as a highly qualified IT manager working in the oil and gas sector, Alex McCall joined the National Records of Scotland, before pursuing his passion for data and studying for a masters degree. Alex is now a data scientist working with the rapidly growing data science company Effini, helping businesses of all kinds gain a competitive edge through data.
Abstract: Commercially successful data science delivery demands that applications are economical to run, secure and relevant to the customer. Costs can run out of control and basic security requirements can be breached, leaving the company exposed. Too often, meet-ups, academic lectures and books focus on the technical aspects, but do not always demonstrate how to commercialise and deliver the application.
This talk charts the personal development of the speaker during development of a dashboard application for a holiday company. It includes key decisions (and mistakes) and obstacles that led to the final design. This journey started from zero knowledge of Data Science, zero knowledge of R and zero knowledge of Cloud Computing. It highlights key areas of data security and cloud architecture needed as the application moved from concept, through to prototype and then final commercial delivery.
The R Shiny application was delivered on a Docker container running on AWS Elastic Container Services, secured with AWS Cognito authentication and a secure Virtual Private Cloud.
LOGISTICS
===========
1845: Zoom Waiting room will open
1900: Meetup will start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, and then Q&A
We'll aim to be finished by 2000
REMOTE MEETINGS
===================
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.
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.
