Open Tech Calendar

Welcome to the final virtual PyData Edinburgh of 2020! What a year!

Though a very different set of events from usual, we have thoroughly enjoyed all the speakers we have heard from. We're delighted that it's someone from our sponsor Lloyds that will be speaking for us this time.

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 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!).

MAIN TALK:
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Valcon is a Python library for supercharging all ML and data-related projects with easy to use Controls (Metrics and Validations), Logging, Configuration and more.

This talk will cover the development of Valcon in Lloyds Banking Group as an innersource, use-case driven library, which aims to accelerate and standardise the development and reporting of data and machine learning metrics across the data science portfolio.

The talk will be hosted by Christopher Hedderick and Radu Ghitescu, Machine Learning Engineers at LBG, and will include an overview of Valcon, lessons learned during development and a live demo.

LOGISTICS
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1755: Zoom Waiting room will open
1800: Meetup will start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, and then Q&A
We'll aim to be finished by 1900

REMOTE MEETINGS
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Please remember the Code of Conduct applies to a remote meeting as well.

When you join the meeting, your microphone will be muted, and your camera switched on, we miss you all, it's nice to see you! Once the talk starts, feel free to switch your camera off.

We'll use the chat channel in Zoom to deal with any issues, and we'll advise on how we will run the Q&A at the start of the session.

SPONSORS
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While we might not be making such full use of our sponsors as we normally do, we still appreciate all they do for us to allow us to run this group - so thanks to Cathcart Associates, Wood Mackenzie, Solarwinds, Lloyds Banking, Canon Medical and Effini.

CODE OF CONDUCT
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Though virtual, our Code of Conduct still applies to all attendees, organisers and speakers. Please take the time to read through if you haven't before, we really appreciate your help to maintain a welcoming and friendly PyData community.

The PyData Code of Conduct (pydata.org) 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 numfocus.org.