Hearts & Mind vs Hard Facts - Tales from the trenches
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This month we're happy to have Mick Barry, Head of platform operations at Nucleus financial, join us to talk about his experiences of overcoming resistance to change
Hearts & Mind versus Hard Facts - Tales from the trenches delivering Lean digital transformation
While my old school sci-fi enthusiasm would have me think Resistance is futile, we are nowadays seeing that not only is resistance to hard facts and data led decisions more and more common, it's also proving to be fairly effective to preventing change happening successfully. In this session I'd like to talk about my experiences of trying to create a new transformation team and our attempts to deliver transformative change and the, often unexpected, challenges we've faced along the way.
Bio: Mick Barry, Head of Platform Operations, Nucleus Financial Services
Experienced technology leader with over 20 years of software and change delivery experience in the financial services industry. Father of 3 so also skilled in small people management, conflict resolution, Disney Princesses and Lego.
A hackathon to empower and inspire public action for climate change
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As World leaders descend on Glasgow for COP26 - the most pivotal Climate Change summit of our time - we're inviting you to step up and get involved to demonstrate just how effective public involvement can be in making a real impact against the climate crisis.
Across the weekend, entrepreneurial designers, developers, data analysts, marketers, sector experts and more will develop innovative products, services or tools that educate, empower and inspire public action.
CoderDojo Scotland is part of a global collaboration that provides free coding clubs for young people. Learn everything you need to become a great programmer in a fun and sociable environment.
Bring own laptop or use one of ours, make sure to select the right kind of ticket so we can work out allowance!
Laptop must have a text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac), access to wifi and a web browser such as Chrome.
COVID-19 update: COVID guidelines will be followed in line with Scottish government guidance. Hand and work station sanitation products will be provided. Facemasks will be required for entering and leaving the building for those who are not exempt.
The PyData Global Online Conference is where users, contributors, and newcomers can share experiences to learn from one another and grow together. PyData provides a virtual forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization.
This three-day online event consists of talks, tutorials, and discussions to bring attendees the latest project features along with cutting-edge use cases.
The time span of the conference stretches beyond any single time zone, reflecting the global nature of our community. To accommodate our attendees, each session will be recorded and made available to attendees the following day. Following the Conference, all recordings will be posted to the PyData YouTube channel.
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Smart solutions recommendations in an IT ticketing system
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Welcome to the next virtual event from PyData Edinburgh!
As always, this will last an hour, and we'll have a main talk plus a Q&A session at the end. The session starts at 18:30, 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 in the future, whether a main or a lightning one, we're always looking out for speakers (as you know!). We've got some more volunteers for lightning talk, so if we get a couple more we'll be able to run an evening with just lightning talks, which would be great.
Tonight we're delighted to welcome a speaker from one of our sponsors, thugh there's been a name change there!
MAIN TALK: Smart solutions recommendations in an IT ticketing system
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First line support in large organisations requires significant human resources to deliver fast, on-demand response to customer incidents. In order to reduce ticket inflow, companies rely on knowledge bases, either browsable by the customer or used as a backend for chatbots. We will discuss some of our attempts at providing smart knowledge base solution identification at N-able, as well as the opposite problem: generating knowledge base articles from solved helpdesk tickets.
About
Catalina Hallett is a data science technical lead at N-able, where she works in developing machine learning solutions that enhance N-able products and help us better understand and support our customer base. Her main area of expertise is NLP and she has previously worked in AI for credit risk applications and predictive text modelling.
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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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 month we are delighted to welcome Gary Birnie, who will be talking to us about applying insights from the world of behavioural science to help us adopt more positive behaviours and habits.
About Gary's talk
Physical inactivity is the 4th leading risk factor for mortality worldwide. In this talk, Gary will give an introduction to applied behavioural insights, including how to complete a behavioural audit and outline interventions to implement new positive behaviours and habits.
About Gary
Gary Birnie is a Lead UX Research & Design Consultant with over 10 years experience of working closely with clients to define, design and develop transformative user experiences. He is a member of the Behavioural Science & Public Health Network and co-founder of Behavioural Insights Scotland (BIS). Gary is also currently undertaking an MSc in Behavioural Science at Stirling University.
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This month we are proud to have Michael Bell, Agile Team Coach, Paypal, come to share with us the importance of slack in our teams, plans and lives because every system requires slack. It allows for change, growth and reflections. Especially in the face of uncertainty. This talk will take us through what slack is and why it’s important to have it in every aspect of our lives.
The Presentation with time for questions and discussion will last about an hour, as we try to replicate the in person experience we can keep going a little longer if some smaller groups wish to keep discussing.
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This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
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Realtime NLP in Google cloud with Kafka, Apache Beam, TFX and Vertix AI.
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Welcome to the next virtual event from PyData Edinburgh!
As always, this will last an hour, and we'll have a main talk plus a Q&A session at the end. The session starts 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 in the future, whether a main or a lightning one, we're always looking out for speakers (as you know!). We've got some more volunteers for lightning talk, so if we get a couple more we'll be able to run an evening with just lightning talks, which would be great.
Tonight we welcome two speakers who are giving the talk together. Angus is a well known face at PyData, and has helped support us since the very start and we're delighted his colleague Alex will also be joining us.
MAIN TALK: Realtime NLP in Google cloud with Kafka, Apache Beam, TFX and Vertix AI.
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Bios:
Angus Neilson, Senior Data Engineer at Trustpilot (Data Platform)
Angus has worked with data in some shape or form for the last 15 years across many sectors including Finance, Telco, Aeronautics, Healthcare and Energy. Most recently he's been working with Kafka and a variety of cloud based data technologies in AWS, Azure and Google. His focus is making data fast and correct. He has a long running interest in how we develop and encourage new generations of Engineers.
Alex Chan, Machine Learning Engineer at Trustpilot (Data Platform)
Alex is an ML Engineer at Trustpilot currently working on operationalising NLP models across a variety of languages. His favourite machine learning algorithm is the Gaussian process.
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Abstract:
In this talk we will explore the implementation of a new improved real time analysis of reviews within TrustPilot with natural language processing enabled by Kafka, Apache Beam, TFX (Tensor flow extended) and Vertix AI. All of course written in Python :-)
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
====================
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.
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This month we continue our exploration of the different roles that make up human-centred design teams by turning our spotlight onto Content Design. We are delighted to welcome back Lauren Tormey, who will talk to us about what UX designers need to know about content design.
What a content designer wants UX designers to know about content
Content and content design are often an afterthought in the UX world. In this talk, Lauren will give an introduction to content design, including what it is, how it differs from other content roles, and how we can all be champions of usable, accessible, and inclusive content.
About Lauren
Lauren Tormey is a Content Designer at the University of Edinburgh. She works as part of a multi-disciplinary design team focusing on improving the digital provision for prospective students. Over her six years in higher education, she has used her editorial, CMS, and UX skills to support the creation and maintenance of more effective, human-centred content.
This month we are delighted to have Sathpal Singh speaking on social leadership. This is a 3-part talk to provoke thought and reflection around the changing face and nature of leadership in the social age.
Abstract:
Leadership comes in many forms. Sath will share his journey into "Social Leadership", its potential and how he adopted it's mindset and behaviours whilst building and nurturing a knowledge sharing community of engineers across a population of 000s in the financial services sector. He will cover what makes a Social Leader, what characterises them and why are they needed more than ever. We are in the Social Age!
More details:
The talk outlines some familiar leadership styles before going deeper into what Social Leadership is, what characteristics and behaviours making Social Leaders and how social leadership behaviours are developed.
As we see our life and work landscape alter drastically as a consequence of the global pandemic the world is crying out for more great social leadership. This talk explains why and outlines what this looks like in theory and practice.
Audience takeaways from this session:
• What is the Social Age
• What is Social Leadership
• What do Social Leaders look like
• How does one develop as a Social Leader
• How this can be applied in practice
Bio:
Sath operates at the intersection of Engineering and Agile, with a focus on people, culture and communities. Having started his career as a Software Engineer, Sath has moved from hands-on developer roles into management and leadership and over the last 20 years has experienced numerous industries and delivered a range of programs and products for international clients and global brands.
Sath has a number of voluntary roles over and above his day job in the banking sector and is currently Organiser at Future of Work Scotland, Chair of the BCS Agile Methods group and sits on the CMI Scotland board, as their Communications Lead. He was also an Advisor and Trustee of the Agile20Reflect festival which has now rebranded as Access Agile.
Machine Learning and its Potential to Improve Epilepsy Diagnosis
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Welcome to PyData Edinburgh's August event, when when we'll be hearing about ML's potential to help tackle epilepsy.
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 18.30, 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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Machine Learning and its Potential to Improve Epilepsy Diagnosis
Static rule-based algorithms to assist medical diagnosis and treatment monitoring have been used in practice for decades (e.g. heart rate monitoring). Research into detecting epileptic seizures from the electrical activity of the brain , with machine learning, has been an active area of research for over 20 years. Given recent advancements in "big data", portable bio-sensing technologies, and other computer hardware/software, the feasibility of successfully implementing such algorithms into practice is improving.
This talk is an overview of how new applications of ML could soon provide physiologists with better quantitative tools to improve workflow and diagnostic accuracy. Prior knowledge of epilepsy, neuroscience, and ML is not assumed: talk aims to be accessible to a broad range of backgrounds.
Bio
Dr. David Elliott is a Teacher in Mathematical Sciences Computing at the University of Edinburgh, with a PhD in Applied Statistics from Lancaster University. He has a background in Psychology and Developmental Disorders, with his recent research focusing on developing hardware, software, and quantitative methods for portable neurological monitoring of childhood patients with epilepsy. He now focuses on teaching the statistical foundations and practical applications of data science and machine learning.
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18:25: Zoom Waiting room will open
18:30: Meetup will start — welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, and then Q&A
We'll aim to be finished by 19:30
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
====================
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).
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This month we'll be take a look at some of the different roles that make up design teams in organisations that take a human-centred design approach to designing services. We're delighted to welcome Braden Tinline and Bobby King who'll tell us a little about their respective roles as Service Designer and Interaction Designer. I'll join them and share a couple of things I've learned along my journey in becoming a User Researcher.
6.30pm - Intros and community announcements
6.45pm - Small group breakout (informal chat)
7pm - Talking about human-centred design roles with Braden Tinline (Service Designer, Scottish Government), Bobby King (Interaction Designer, Capgemini), and Mike Jefferson (User Researcher, Scottish Government)
7.45pm - Group Q&A and chat
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Sorry folks, pushing this one out a couple of weeks...
This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
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Details of agenda to follow.
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The Digital Explorer is an online resource aiming to explore how, together, environment organisations can use innovative digital technologies to address the shared challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, and work together to create a nature-rich future.
This month we're delighted to be joined by Ruchir Shah from the Scottish Wildlife Trust. Ruchir will share the background and purpose of the Digital Explorer - plus we'll have some fun!
Also:
* Project updates. Hear how our current volunteer projects are doing. There will be opportunities to volunteer and take part!
* Opportunities to volunteer your professional skills for a Scottish Charity
* 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
About our guest speaker:
Ruchir Shah is responsible for leading the transformation of how the Scottish Wildlife Trust engages with external audiences in order to tackle the ecological crisis we face. This includes strategic responsibility for policy and public affairs, communications and marketing, and the Trust’s engagement with its members and the general public.
Panda is back with a follow up on practical penetration testing of a web server / web application.
This is a continuation of their previous talk on Wordpress Security Review, and should be considered practical tips on testing only websites for which you yourself own the server instance, or you have been given explicit permission to test on. Act responsibly! 👍
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A walkthrough of hacking a webapp for standard users up to admins and devs. After the talk, I'll send out the slide deck, which will include links to references and resources. The talk will include
* Reconnaissance
* Identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities
* Recommended remediation for vulnerabilities identified
As part of the above,
* Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)
* Tools used
Adopting Amazon SageMaker for machine learning at FreeAgent
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Welcome to PyData Edinburgh 2021, July edition! Tonight, we have a great talk about model deployment in the cloud.
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 6.00pm, 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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SageMaker is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) platform for machine learning. It offers a range of different features that cover the end-to-end lifecycle of a machine learning project, vastly simplifying the process. Or at least that is the promise, but is it the reality? At FreeAgent, the Data Science team has been using SageMaker extensively for two years. In this talk I want to share our experiences and introduce the key SageMaker features that work well for us in solving specific problems. I will also highlight some problems we encountered along the way and share the lessons we learned in adopting an AWS-based approach to machine learning.
Bio
David Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer at FreeAgent. He joined FreeAgent as a Data Scientist and worked to bring FreeAgent’s first machine learning driven feature to customers. Recently, he has moved to FreeAgent’s Data Platform team to help enable teams across the company to deliver data-driven capabilities to customers.
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
====================
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.
Mental models for team effectiveness with Zane Cunningham
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For our June event, Zane Cunningham (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zanecunningham/) will be giving a talk on mental models for team effectiveness. Zane has experience working with teams in the automotive and aerospace industries, in lean manufacturing and software development. In his talk, Zane will share some of his favourite mental models that help teams improve and collaborate. There will be time for Q&A at the end of Zane's talk.
As has been the norm for our meetups over the past year, this event will be online so we hope to see some of our international guests come along! Sadly, it's still BYO for pizza and drinks but here's hoping that we'll get a face to face meetup soon!
Hope to see you there!
If you would like to speak at any event or facilitate a workshop/activity, please get in touch with the organisers.
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The University of Edinburgh is running an open online workshop to help visualize your networks with The Vistorian (http://vistorian.github.io). The Vistorian is an application that provides a set of interactive network visualizations (node-link diagram, matrix, timeline, and map) to visualize geographical, temporal, and multivariate networks. No coding or download is required. The Vistorian runs in your web browser with your data stored securely on your machine.
The tutorial is aimed for everyone wanting to visualize and visually explore complex network data. The Vistorian can help with geographic, temporal and multivariate networks. There is a size limit of around 1000 links for the time being.
The Vistorian is tool created in close relationship with our research in data visualization and aims to both provide novel and powerful visualizations for complex networks and help making these visualizations more accessible. We are keen to learn from your experience and improve our tool.
Our workshop will start on June 3rd (Thu), with optional Q&A and drop-in sessions over the summer. The workshop comprises:
- Overview session (1h): Thursday, June 3rd 2021, 4-5pm UK time
- Live Tutorial (1h): Thursday, June 3rd 2021, 5-6pm UK time
- Web tutorials:
- Drop-in Q&A sessions on June 10, 17, 21, 2021: 3pm UK time
- Individual sessions: https://www.picktime.com/TheVistorian
More information about the workshop: https://vistorian.github.io/tutorials.html
