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PyData talk 2025-12-08 at 20:30

"Save your API Keys for someone else" -- Using the HuggingFace and Ollama ecosystems to run good-enough LLMs on your laptop

Description

In this 90 minute tutorial we'll get anyone with some basic Python and Command Line skills up and running with their own 100% laptop based set of LLMs, and explain some successful patterns for leveraging LLMs in a data analysis environment. We'll also highlight pit-falls waiting to catch you out, and encourage you that your pre-GenAI analytics skills are still relevant today and likely will be for the foreseeable future by demonstrating the limits of LLMs for data analysis tasks.