Open Tech Calendar

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
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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.