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PyData Southampton - 20th Meetup 2025-11-18 · 19:00 Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST 📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal Main Talks 1️⃣ Unlocking the Black Box: Demystifying ML Models with Shapley Values - Philip Le Model explainability is key to help us build trust and enable decision-making with ML/AI models. We will dig deeper into the theoretical background of the Shapley value to help us address the complexity and bias challenges of black box models. There will be several examples to showcase the practical side of how we could use these techniques in practice. 2️⃣ Digital attribution model using LSTM - Vinoth Chelladurai How we can use LSTM technique to develop click based digital attribution model to estimate assisted orders for each of the digital activities. This modelling will enable Marketing teams to optimise better to drive better ROI ⚡Lightning Talks ⚡ ⚡1️⃣ "AI" - Professional liars? - Marcus Toy ⚡2️⃣ TBA Please note: 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨 This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list. * Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct. * There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK. * Logistics** Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm. Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members! Follow us for updates and early announcements we are on Bluesky/Instagram/Threads as @pydatasoton, and find us on LinkedIn.	PyData Southampton - 20th Meetup

Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST 📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal

Main Talks 1️⃣ Unlocking the Black Box: Demystifying ML Models with Shapley Values - Philip Le Model explainability is key to help us build trust and enable decision-making with ML/AI models. We will dig deeper into the theoretical background of the Shapley value to help us address the complexity and bias challenges of black box models. There will be several examples to showcase the practical side of how we could use these techniques in practice.

2️⃣ Digital attribution model using LSTM - Vinoth Chelladurai How we can use LSTM technique to develop click based digital attribution model to estimate assisted orders for each of the digital activities. This modelling will enable Marketing teams to optimise better to drive better ROI

⚡Lightning Talks ⚡ ⚡1️⃣ "AI" - Professional liars? - Marcus Toy ⚡2️⃣ TBA

Please note:

🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.

*** Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct. *** There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK. ***

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Follow us for updates and early announcements we are on Bluesky/Instagram/Threads as @pydatasoton, and find us on LinkedIn.

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