We are delighted to announce a joint Christmas social event with fellow Bristol-based Python meetup, the Python DBBUG group.
** CHANGE OF VENUE**
We will be meeting at Runway East Bristol this time, for those coming by train it is approximately 12 minutes' walk from Bristol Temple Meads.
Address: 1 Victoria St, Bristol BS1 6AA
We would like to thank Elucidata for kindly sponsoring the venue hire.
You can expect several 5 minute Christmas themed lightning talks from both PyData and DBBUG groups' members, as well as extended breaks and networking time plus community announcements. There will be a staffed bar on site, and free mince pies!
If you would like to give a Christmas lightning talk on the evening then please send a direct message to Frank Kelly via meetup.com. We are always looking for new speakers and lightning talks.
⚡️ LIGHTNING TALKS
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1. (PyData) Bharat Kunwar: "Santas routing problem - observations on a Kaggle competition"
How can Santa plan his route for his reindeers to navigate through 180,000 cities along the shortest path? However, there is a twist… departing from every 10th city with a non-prime index incurs a 10% distance penalty. This lightning talk is an interactive discussion of different ways in which of tackling this problem in a currently running Kaggle Competition in a computationally efficient manner.
Bio: Bharat is a Cloud Software Engineer at StackHPC. In his spare time, he likes to dabble with interesting datasets.
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2. (Python DBBUG) Rob Charlwood: "1 day with Docker - What I learned in my first 8 hours"
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3. (PyData) Matt Hamilton on trading using Reinforcement Learning
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4. (Python DBBUG) Paul Lyon: "How IBM Watson (and Others) respond to sarcastic customer reviews"
🕖 LOGISTICS
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Doors open at 18:00, talks kick off at 18:30 sharp, beers available from the bar in the intervals. There will be a designated pub to head to afterwards.
We're limited on the number of attendees, so if you realise you can't make it, please unRSVP in good time to free up your place for your fellow community members.
Follow @pydatabristol (https://twitter.com/pydatabristol) for updates on this and future events, as well as announcements and news from the global data community.
📜 CODE OF CONDUCT
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The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup (http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html). To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen ([masked]; [masked]) or the group organizer.