PyDataMCR
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA Podcast focusing on all things data in Manchester(UK). Hosted by the organisers of the Manchester PyData chapter.
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Episodes
Episode 18 - Functional Programming and Data Engineering with James Fielder
August 26, 2020 19:05 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 18, James Fielder, Jennifer and John are talking functional programming, typing and data engineering. Sponsors Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Our Collaborators HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk Django Girls - djangogirls.org/ Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/ Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org.uk/ Lambda Lounge - http://lambdalounge...
Episode 17 - Data Engineering and Game Theory with Eslene Bikoumou
July 26, 2020 14:37 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 17, Eslene Bikoumou, Jennifer and John are talking about Game Theory and what does Data Engineering look like at a Manchester based start up. Sponsors Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Our Collaborators HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk Django Girls - djangogirls.org/ Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/ Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org....
Episode 16 - Academia and back again with Adam Fletcher
June 26, 2020 18:31 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 16, Adam Fletcher, Jennifer and John are talking about Adams journey from industry, to academia and back again; and some insight into the world of data science consulting. Sponsors: Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Our Collaborators: HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk Django Girls - djangogirls.org/ Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/ Open Data Manc...
Episode 15 - Open Contracts and Volunteering in Tech with Hera
May 26, 2020 19:11 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 15, Hera Hussain, Jennifer and John are talking about Open Contracting - what it is and why it is important, as well as Volunteering in Tech - how to get into it and how to get it right. Sponsors Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Our Collaborators: HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk Django Girls - djangogirls.org/ Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/ ...
Episode 14 - Johns Favourite Topic: Recommender Systems
April 26, 2020 12:55 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 14, today Jennifer and John are talking about Recommender Systems, where you can find them, and why they are still so difficult Sponsors Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Our Collaborators: HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk Django Girls - djangogirls.org/ Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/ Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org.uk/ Lambda L...
Episode 13 - The Joys of Open Data
March 26, 2020 13:56 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 13, today we are talking to our friends at Open Data Manchester about how it came to be, and what the past decade has held in store. Guests Julian - @Julianlstar Sam - @milsomsam http://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk Sponsors Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Our Collaborators: HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/ Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk Django Girls - djangogirls.org/ Python NW - meetu...
Episode 12 - Sentiment Analysis and NLP
February 25, 2020 22:45 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR Episode 12, This episode is all about Natural Language Processing, specifically Sentiment Analysis. Listen for our take on the approach to the complexity of text data, how we prepare the data, and the tools we can use to tease out sentiment. Sponsors LadBible - ladbible.com/ Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/ Resources Tutorials Natural Language Processing https://www.kaggle.com/learn/natural-language-process...
Episode 11 - A Year in Review
January 27, 2020 01:28 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBThis month we thought we would take a break from our usual episode format and have ourselves as the guests. Listen to us reflect on our year volunteering with PyDataMCR. We talk about what we did this year, including Google Next! We also talk a little about learning to rank. We realise this is an insider view, so this months meetup will be an open retro so have a think about what you want from next year. Request: If you know about recording events for YouTube, and can help us out, feel free...
Episode 10 - Hacktoberfest Special
November 25, 2019 09:18 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 10 , This episode was recorded throughout our weekend Hacktoberfest event. We ran this event in tandem with PythonNW, DjangoGirls, PyLadiesNW, Rladies and HER+Data and as such this podcast dips into multiple different communities. Listen on as we talk to maintainers of open source libraries, contributors and more. Show Notes Sponsors Cathcart Associates - https://www.cathcartassociates.com/ Horsefly Analytics - https://horseflyanalytics.com/ CodeNation - ht...
Episode 9 - Smart Meters, more like Dumb Meters Ft. Ellen Talbot
October 25, 2019 10:15 - 46 minutes - 53.7 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 9 , today we are talking to Ellen Talbot, a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool in the Geographic Data Science Lab. Ellen talks with us about smart people in academia and smart meters in energy usage. Sponsors LadBible - https://www.ladbible.com/ Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ RLadies Manchester - https://www.meetup.com/rladies-manchester/ Rstudio - https://rstudio.com/ Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/ Spyder - https://www.spyder-ide....
Episode 8 - Mucking around and making things work Ft. Tom Liptrot
September 24, 2019 11:53 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 8 , today we are talking to Tom Liptrot who is a Consultant Data Scientist at Ortom, a Manchester based Data Science Consultancy. We talk about how flexibility at work can lead to great data products, some various meetups Tom will be attending and even some stand up comedy. Show Notes Sponsors Arctic Shores - arcticshores.com/ Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/ Meetups Pydatamcr - https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/ Macnml - https://www.m...
Episode 7 - Open Science and Imposters syndrome Ft. Rachael Ainsworth
September 24, 2019 11:05 - 45 minutes - 42 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 7, today we are talking to Rachael Ainsworth who is a Research Associate in Radio Astronomy and Open Science Champion at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, which is part of the University of Manchester, UK. Rachael talks about Open Science, Imposters Syndrome and construction of the Square Kilometre Array. Show Notes Square kilometre array - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array Astropy - https://www.astropy.org/ Docker - https://www.do...
Episode 6 - Developer Advocacy and dealing with burnout Ft. Tania Allard
July 25, 2019 15:00 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 6, today we are talking to Tania Allard who is a Developer Advocate for Microsoft here in Manchester. Find out what a developer advocate does. We discuss advice for dealing with burnout in the modern world. Show Notes Tania twitter.com/@ixek Jupyter - https://jupyter.org/ Azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/ QuantStack - https://quantstack.net/ NIPS - https://nips.cc/ Binder - https://gke.mybinder.org/ Shout outs - Carol Willing - twitter.com/@Wi...
Episode 5 - Data in Dating Ft. Ian Forrester
June 25, 2019 13:00 - 43 minutes - 50.1 MBToday we talk about data in dating(I am sure there is an obvious pun there). Are you aware of the white label sites that share your data? How can a dating sights interests align with yours if it’s in their interests to keep you single? We talk with self-professed dating expert Ian Forrester to find out more. Ian Forrester is a well known character on the digital scene in the UK and Europe. Living in Manchester, UK, he works for the BBC's R&D Future Experiences team. He specialises in open i...
Episode 4 - Data Science in Production Ft. Leanne Fitzpatrick
May 25, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 4 , today we are talking with Leanne Fitzpatrick, Head of Data at Hello Soda. Leanne is a Passionate data leader with experience developing, implementing and growing a data analytics and data science function within (what was) a start up business, and is an advocate of getting data science straight into production. We gave some fan service by talking about american football for our american audience, and some beer chat for our Manchester audience too! Show Not...
Episode 3 - Forecasting Ft. Kaylea Haynes
April 25, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes - 75.8 MBDescription Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 3 , today we are talking about forecasting with Kaylea Haynes, data science team leader at Peak here in Manchester. Kaylea is involved in RLadies Manchester and has a great presence in the data community here in Manchester and seems to have the impressive skill of being everywhere at once. Show Notes ARIMA Python - bit.ly/2Z6VMKB ARIMA R - bit.ly/2IpErqs Fb prophet -bit.ly/2X6U9uS Forecasting book - amzn.to/2KsLuBr Croston method - bit.ly/2Ueu...
Episode 2 - Getting a Job in Data Ft. Liam Wilson of Cathcart Associates
March 29, 2019 10:33 - 39 minutes - 73 MBWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 2, today we are talking to Liam Wilson from Cathcart Associates, an independent technology recruitment company. If you’re in Data in Manchester or Edinburgh chances are you already know Liam as one of the organisers of MancML, and also the sponsor of PyDataMCR and PyDataEdinburgh.From what we have seen of Liam, and Cathcart Associates is that they have a better understanding of what data science actually consists of, and give back to the communities they are a...
Episode 1 - Geospatial data with Rebecca Davey and David Mulcahy
February 21, 2019 14:07 - 38 minutes - 70.3 MBPyDataMCR - Episode 1 - Geospatial data with Rebecca Davey and David Mulcahy Welcome to the official PyDataMCR podcast, In this episode we are joined by Rebecca and David from INRIX. We zip through topics including GPS tracking, Hidden Markov Models and open source tools. Show notes: Libraries: Geopandas - http://geopandas.org/ Dockerfile for geopandas - https://hub.docker.com/r/jaspajjr/geopandas Folium - https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/ HMM-learn - https://hmmlearn.re...
PyDataMCR - Episode 0 - NUMFOCUS with Dr Gina Helfrich
December 17, 2018 16:11 - 1 hour - 185 MBPyDataMCR - Episode 0 - NUMFOCUS with Dr Gina Helfrich Welcome to the official PyDataMCR podcast, In this episode we give an introduction to PyData,NUMFOCUS and some of the organisers. The mission of NumFOCUS is to promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research. We accomplish this mission through our educational programs and events as well as through fiscal sponsorship of open source scientific computing projects. We aim to ...