Open Tech Calendar

As the summer nights give way to the autumn we have another PyData Edinburgh to cheer you up.

Our main speaker in October is Edinburgh University's Benjamin Bach, a lecturer in Informatics who specializes in interactive information visualization interfaces. We will also have lightning talks and community announcements, all accompanied by refreshments and followed by pizza.

Please RVSP if you can join us at Solar Winds Edinburgh office.

MAIN TALK

This talk gives an overview of a few tools for data visualization, including visualization design and creation, exploratory data analysis, and creating communicative visualizations. The talk will discuss tools that require some programming (Python(!), D3) and others that are usable out of the box (rawgraphs, vistorian, tableau), and will cover both tools for general purpose charts amd tools for specific kinds of data such as networks.

BIO

Benjamin is a Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) in Design Informatics and Visualization at the University of Edinburgh. His research designs and investigates interactive information visualization interfaces to help people explore, communicate, and understand data across media such as screens, mixed reality, paper, and physicalizations.
benjbach.me

LIGHTNING TALKS

We still have a few spaces for some lightning talks this month - share your stories! Share your successes & failures! Share your hints & tips! Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you.

If you want to give a lightning talk at this event, send us a message either here on Meetup, through Twitter @PyDataEdinburgh or any other way you know how to find us!

Just 5 minutes, still informal, no need for slides unless you want them — go on, give it a go!

LOGISTICS

Please RSVP to come to this event :)

1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start — welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
We'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.

SPONSORS

As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas and for this event — Cathcart Associates, Wood Mackenzie, Solar Winds, Lloyds Banking Group and Canon Medical

CODE OF CONDUCT

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.

Thank you for helping us to maintain a welcoming and friendly PyData community!