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PyDataMCR and Rust Manchester are teaming up for our June speakers night

THE TALK

Polars and Time Series: what it can do, and how to overcome any limitation - Marco Gorelli (he/him)

Time series analysis is ubiquitous in applied data science because of the value it delivers. In order to do effective time series analysis, you need to know your tools well. Polars has excellent built-in time series support, and it's also possible to extend it where necessary.

We will talk about: - Basic built-in time series operations with Polars (e.g. "what's the average number of sales per month?"). - numba/numpy/scipy interoperability for not-so-basic time series operations (e.g. non-linear interpolation\, or cumulative operations). - Advanced\, custom time series operations\, and how you can implement them as Polars plugins (e.g. business day arithmetic).

Q&A developing open source software in the Python ecosystem

Location We'll be at Krakenflex Manchester, who are kindly supplying catering. The capacity is limited to 100.

EVENT GUIDELINES

PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.

PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct

https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html

Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with its contents.

ACCESSIBILITY

Under 16s welcome with a responsible guardian. The venue and toilets are accessible with a lift from reception.

SPONSORS

Thank you to NUMFocus for sponsoring the PyData meetups.

Thank you to AutoTrader for sponsoring PyDataMCR.

Thank you to Krakenflex for an awesome venue and catering!

**PyDataMCR Codenight - June **

Have a data project or some coursework?

Want to get to know your peers?

Come to Code Night! A night to work on your own project, with supportive peers available for advice. Ask for tips from others more experienced than yourself, or teach somebody else something great!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

A laptop

A project (optional!, feel free to join us for a chat or to provide others with advice).

HOW IT WILL WORK

Event Starts (18:30) - Come down and join us at AutoTrader for some food and drinks. You'll have an opportunity to share any problems you're working on with other attendees.

Event Closes (20:00) - After the event we'll all head to Gasworks for some post-event socialising.

Location We'll be at AutoTrader, who are kindly supplying the venue and catering. The capacity is limited to 40.

EVENT GUIDELINES

PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.

PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct

https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html

Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with its contents.

ACCESSIBILITY

Under 16s welcome with a responsible guardian. There is a quiet room available if needed. Toilets and venue are accessible.

SPONSORS

Thank you to NUMFocus for sponsoring Meetup and further support

Thank you to AutoTrader for sponsoring, providing an awesome venue and catering!

Thank you to Krakenflex for their ongoing support

THE TALK

H-Unique, Lend a Hand to Fight Child Abuse

H-Unique is a 5-year research project studying variability in the visible features of the human hand, which began in 2019. The project has arisen directly from Professor Sue Black’s ground-breaking work in the forensic identification of perpetrators from images of their hands in indecent images of children. The project aims to identify which features of the hand form the most reliable biometric for identification and to develop AI models and algorithms to automatically extract and analyse these from hands in images and video.

Ricki will discuss the project background and their approach to public engagement for data gathering and some of the challenges faced, Bryan Williams who leads the research activities will discuss some of the experiments conducted so far and research outputs to date.

During the evening there will also be an opportunity to contribute hand images to the project ‘control’ dataset, which the team are close to completing. We hope that after hearing about our work and why we are doing it you will be eager to volunteer!

For further info our project site is at: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/h-unique

OUR SPEAKERS

Ricki Boswell-Challand, H-Unique Database Manager

Pronouns: he/him

Bio: Ricki graduated in Computer-Aided Physics at Lancaster after which he developed a long career in commercial software development and industrial R&D, with a background in database design, system integration and image management. He returned to Lancaster specifically to join the H-Unique project where, as database manager he designs, builds and maintains the systems for collecting, maintaining and managing project contributions and research data.

Ricki's LinkedIn

Dr Bryan Williams, Anniversary Lecturer in Biometrics

Pronouns: He/him

Bio: Bryan is a Lecturer in Biometrics and Human Identification with the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University and honorary Lecturer in Ophthalmic Imaging with the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences at the University of Liverpool. He is a mathematician with a focus on computer vision, machine/deep learning, image processing and analysis, feature extraction, and medical device development. In particular, he has many years’ experience in computer vision research, outreach, citizen science and patient and public involvement, with work published in the world-leading venues and winning several awards. He is leading research on the H-Unique project. His key focus is to drive the direction of the research, overall management of the project and to ensure that the aims of the project are realised.

Bryan's LinkedIn

LOCATION We'll be at Peak AI. The capacity is limited to 80.

After the talks we'll all head somewhere local for some post-event socialising.

EVENT GUIDELINES PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.

PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct

https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html

Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with its contents.

ACCESSIBILITY Under 16s welcome with a responsible guardian. There is a quiet room available if needed. Toilets are accessible, so I am hoping the venue is too but looking for more details!

SPONSORS Thank you to NUMFocus for sponsoring Meetup and further support