Last weekend (April 27-29) we run PyData London 2018, the fifth edition of our annual conference (we also have a monthly meet-up, with currently 7,200+ members). The event is entirely run by volunteers, with the purpose of bringing the community together and raising money for NumFOCUS, the charity that provides financial support to open-source scientific… Continue reading PyData London 2018
I’m happy to announce the recent release of my second video course, Practical Python Data Science Techniques published with Packt Publishing. Links: video course on Packt Publishing (the publisher) companion code for the course (on my GitHub) This video course follows my first introductory course (Data Analysis with Python) and provides the audience with recipe-like… Continue reading Video Course: Practical Python Data Science Techniques
I’m happy to announce the release of my first video course Data Analysis with Python, published with Packt Publishing. Links: video course on Packt Publishing (the publisher) companion code for the course on my GitHub With 2 hours 26 minutes of content segmented into short video sessions, this course aims at introducing the audience to… Continue reading Video Course: Data Analysis with Python
Last week I’ve travelled to Florence where I attended PyCon Otto, the 8th edition of the Italian Python Conference. As expected, it’s been yet another great experience with the Italian Python community and many international guests. This year the very first day, Thursday, was beginners’ day, with introductory workshops run by volunteer mentors. Thanks to… Continue reading PyCon Italy 2017 write-up
Last week I had a long weekend at PyCon UK 2016 in Cardiff, and it’s been a fantastic experience! Great talks, great friends/colleagues and lots of ideas. On Monday 19th, on the last day of the conference, my friend Miguel and I have run a tutorial/workshop on Natural Language Processing in Python (the GitHub repo… Continue reading PyCon UK 2016 write-up
Great news, my book on data mining for social media is finally out! The title is Mastering Social Media Mining with Python. I’ve been working with Packt Publishing over the past few months, and in July the book has been finalised and released. Links: ebook and paperback on Packt Publishing (the publisher) ebook and paperback… Continue reading Mastering Social Media Mining with Python
Last weekend I was at the PyData London conference for three Pythonic days. Firstly, thanks to the organiser, volunteers, speakers, sponsors and everyone who has contributed in a way or another to make the event a great success. This year I had the opportunity to contribute as member of the review committee, which means I… Continue reading PyData London 2016 write-up
Last week I’ve travelled to Florence to attend PyCon Sette, the seventh edition of the Italian Python Conference, born 10 years ago and held annually (with three editions of EuroPython in between). First off, I have something to admit: as this was my first time at PyCon Italia, clearly I didn’n know what I was… Continue reading PyCon Italia / PyData Italy 2016 Write-Up
My first experience with something related to programming was back in middle school. From time to time, our Math-and-Science substitute teacher used to walk us to the computer room, which was full of shiny Commodore 64 machines, where we had a lot of fun (sort of) with a graphic tool called turtle. What we were… Continue reading Retrocomputing and Python: import turtle
In a previous article, I’ve described how to build a data pipeline in Python using Luigi, a workflow manager written in Python and open sourced by Spotify. I also had the opportunity to give a short talk about Luigi at the local PyData London meetup (see slides). One of the nice features of Luigi is… Continue reading Adding Slack Notifications to a Luigi Pipeline in Python
