Numpy talk at Python Northwest

Published on 05 Jan 2012.
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Back in December I gave a talk introducing Numpy to the PyNorthwest group. The slides are available as a pdf.

Although I frequently use Numpy I'm far from an expert and the content of my talk reflected this. I started with a general introduction to the array object and then expanded the scope of the talk to highlight some of the projects that use Numpy. I gave an example of using MDP and matplotlib.

The talk was followed by some excellent discussion. We went through some of the code on slide 6 in a lot of detail.

The PyNorthwest group meets at Madlab in Manchester city centre on the third Thursday of each month. If you're in the area check it out. The January event is on the 19th, starting at 7pm.

Full text visualisation

Published on 20 Aug 2011.
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At BarcampNortheast4 last weekend and at the Python Northwest meetup on Thursday I gave a presentation on the work I've been doing generating full text visualisations of PDF document libraries.

This was the third BarcampNortheast event I have attended. Each has been slightly different but they have all been a weekend well spent. This year felt a little smaller than previous years but that may have partly been because we were in a bigger space.

I have been attending the python Edinburgh meetups for a while. They have always been interesting and the Northwest meetup this Thursday was the first since I moved back to the Northwest. The format, alternating talks and coding sessions, is different to Edinburgh, regular pub meetups with irregular talks, coding sessions and miniconferences. It was an interesting crowd and the other talks, on Apache Thrift and teaching programming to GCSE students (15-16 year olds), gave a really good variety of subjects to discuss later.

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