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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 3d

From small beginnings to great things! @emlynclay.bsky.social tells us the history of PyData London.

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 3d

It’s finally time! 🥳 PyData London 100 is here! 💯

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 3d

Next up we have Sam Joseph LLMs can tell jokes, but they’re pretty bad. Sam found he can breed better jokes using ideas from evolutionary computing—with pretty decent results!

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 3d

Now hearing from Victor Zommers on his experiments getting LLMs to play Go. They were not good, not only losing to KataGo but also Wally, developed in 1981 with just 7 rules.

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 3d

Next up Why Python is the best language for algorithmic trading from @richardhickling.bsky.social

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 3d

Now hearing HangMAN vs AI - Kavit Tolia

Learnings building a custom transformer to play hangman.

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · 3d

Best quote of the night, "The best way to learn is to teach (or to mislead with confidence!)"

Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations @pydatalondon.bsky.social on your 💯 th meetup; I've been here since Meetup number 4 and this community is awesome! #datascience #machinelearning #python

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · 15d

Talks I'm looking forward to today:
- GenAI governance (Maarten de Ruiter)
- Fraud detection w/ minimal labels (Jaap Stefels & Itzel Belderbos)

Let’s go! 🚀

Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · 15d

Day 1 ✅ Tutorial Day at #PyDataAmsterdam

I gave a packed intro to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — great questions, great energy (even when the demo gods 👀 had their fun).

Now onto 2 days of talks, celebrating 10 years of PyData Amsterdam 🎉

#PyData #MCP #LLMs #DataScience

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · Aug 5

Well that was unexpected; I arrived at @pydatalondon.bsky.social as an attendee and ended up as the August Meetup MC!

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks for attending, glad you enjoyed it.

Tun @stereosky.bsky.social · Jun 7

Adding GenAI to an existing working ML system seems unnecessary but @astroadamh.bsky.social goes through reasons to do it whilst navigating pitfalls, e.g. changes in model prices. Great idea exploring this through personas we’ve all encountered in the workplace
#PyData @pydatalondon.bsky.social

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PyData Global @pydata.bsky.social · Jun 6

IT’S HERE! PyData London 2025 has officially KICKED OFF! 🤩 This event would not be possible without the support of our entire open source community, and we can’t wait to put on a show for you! Without further ado, welcome to PyData London 2025! 🇬🇧 ❤️

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just finished a great tutorial from Samuel Joseph taking us step-by-step through creating a simple GPT model… to tell knock knock jokes. And building intuitive visualisations along the way!

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · Jun 7

Welcome to the PyData main conference! 🎉 @jaspajjr.bsky.social getting things going with opening remarks alongside Andy Terrel from @numfocus.bsky.social

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · Jun 7

Lightning talk slots already filling up! Want to share something cool with the rest of the conference? Sign up at the @numfocus.bsky.social booth!

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · May 27

🐾 Week 2 of the Zoomcamp is all about MLFlow; tracking experiments and registering models github.com/DataTalksClu...

mlops-zoomcamp/02-experiment-tracking at main · DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp

Free MLOps course from DataTalks.Club. Contribute to DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · May 22

@johnsandall.bsky.social is a great speaker and long-time contributor to the @pydata.bsky.social community. I think it's fair to say that I've learned something new every time I've attended one of his talks!

PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · May 8

🚨 PyData London 2025 6-8 June | Tutorial spotlight

How To Measure And Mitigate Unfair Bias in Machine Learning Models - @johnsandall.bsky.social

John introduces key fairness metrics and important techniques for finding and reducing bias.

Get your tickets here today!
pydata.org/london2025

PyData London | 2025

PyData London is a 3-day in-person event for the international community of data scientists, data engineers, and developers of data analysis tools.

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · May 20

Tony Mears, an NHS Director in strategy & innovation, authored ‘Innovation is Dead’ to boost public sector innovation. Previously, he led tech strategy and EU Exit talks at the UK Space Agency (UN delegate) and was deputy director of innovation for a new hospital programme.

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · May 20

Leanne Kim Fitzpatrick, Financial Times' Data Science & AI Director, is a passionate data leader skilled in building teams and embedding data/AI solutions operationally, from startups to large firms. Active in the tech community, she shares best practices and advises academic AI programmes.

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · May 22

🚨 PyData London 2025 6-8 June | Talk spotlight

Are coding assistants as good as we thought in coding? -- @cheukting.bsky.social

Coding assistants seem to be everywhere these days. But exactly what can these agents do well? Will AI take my job?

Get your tickets here today!
pydata.org/london2025

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · May 20

I'm really excited for this year's PyData London conference - there are some awesome talks on the schedule and I'm excited to hear the keynote speakers @jayalammar.bsky.social, Tony Wears, & Leanne Fitzpatrick

#pydata #datascience

PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · May 20

Unleash your inner data aficionado at PyData London 2025, 6-8 June at Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s!

We have 3 top flight keynotes lined up for you this year from @jayalammar.bsky.social, Leanne Kim Fitzpatrick and Tony Mears.

Just 17 days left. Book your tickets now!
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Advertisement for PyData London 2025 conference.

Headline: Meet your keynote speakers

- Jay Alammar
- Tony Mears
- Leanne Fitzpatrick

Book your tickets
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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · May 13

Kicked off this years MLOps Zoomcamp!
⚙️ Week 1 of the Zoomcamp was all about setting up our systems and training an ML model that we'll be revisiting later in the course.
github.com/DataTalksClu...

mlops-zoomcamp/cohorts/2025 at main · DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp

Free MLOps course from DataTalks.Club. Contribute to DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · May 3

At ComplyAdvantage, we process millions of news articles daily to surface signs of financial crime risk. LLMs help — but it’s been a journey.

This talk covers the reality of scaling AI in production.

Hope to see you there!
#LLMs #FinCrime #DataScience #PyData #NLP #MachineLearning #GenAI

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Adam Hill @astroadamh.bsky.social · May 3

🚨 I'm speaking at PyData London 2025!
🎙️ “Not Another LLM Talk… Practical Lessons from Building a Real-World Adverse Media Pipeline”

If you care about getting GenAI into production, this talk is for you.

🎟️ Grab your ticket now! ti.to/pydata/pydat... @pydatalondon.bsky.social

PyData London 2025: 6-8 June 2025, "Not Another LLM Talk... Practical Lessions from Building a Real-World Adverse Media Pipeline" by Dr Adam Hill

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