Mailman 3 January 2019 - python-uk

London Dojo next Thursday
by Tom Viner March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

Hi all, For February's London code dojo, we'll be at Sohonet <https://www.sohonet.com/>. We'll have pizza, drinks and some fun group coding. All abilities welcome! There'll also be the prize draw for a random O'Reilly Python book as usual. *6:30pm Thursday 1st Feb 2018* Get your tickets while they're hot: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-9-episode-6-t… If you need any more information, contact the team via Twitter: @ldnpydojo <https://twitter.com/ldnpydojo> or via e-mails to team(a)ldnpydojo.org.uk We're always looking for venues to host the Dojo and volunteers to be cat herders, i.e. writing an email like this and coordinating the voting etc. Look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Tom @tomviner <https://twitter.com/tomviner>

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[JOBS] Python, Django, PostgreSQL in FinTech
by J. Pablo Fernández Jan. 31, 2019

Jan. 31, 2019

Hello, I’m Pablo, CTO at Eligible <https://eligible.ai>and we are looking to hire developers <https://eligible.ai/hiring/>. We don’t care about which set of technologies you know, you can learn what we use on the job, what we care about is your ability to learn quickly because next year, we are probably all going to be learning something new. The backend is built using *Python*, *Django*, *PostgreSQL*, *RabbitMQ *(through *Celery*) and we host it in *Heroku *(so, no server maintenance nightmare). We have *Heroku pipelines* that automatically execute the tests in *Heroku’s own C*I and then deploy to staging. A thing of beauty. The frontend using JavaScript, ES9, React and it’s all nice and clean still using a non-ejected create-react-app. We are even doing the layout using CSS Grid (they are awesome! aren’t they?). On top of that we get automatic reports on code quality from *Code Climate*, monitoring with *New Relic* and error reporting with *Sentry *(for both backend and frontend). We strongly care about a good tech working environment where each developer is a productive as possible and is not dealing with artificial limitations. We have a great full time designer so all our screens are beautifully crafted and we get high quality assets, images, etc to build on top of. You don’t have to tinker with Photoshop or anything, you can just ask whenever you need a graphic asset. We are building a tool to help mortgage brokers approach and retain customers whose mortgage is up for renewal. We send emails, track clicks, opens, etc (hopefully we’ll apply machine learning there at some point). There are lots of interesting complexities in building an application that looks simple but achieves a lot under the hood. Thankfully, we have a lot of domain experts working every day at the office, so, you don’t have to guess what the customer wants, you don’t have to build something you know it’s going to fail. You can talk to our own experts, they can retrieve information from our customers. We are not building a spec, we are building a solution. We are located on Canary Wharf, on the Lever 39 coworker space (in a private office, and yes, the view is amazing from up here). Right now you’d be the first developer after me as we are just starting to build the tech team. Since we’d be working together, I think it’s fair for you to know who I am: I worked for Google and for the past 9 or 10 years I’ve been co-founding or joining startups always in charge of technology (CTO or similar). If this sounds interesting, drop me a message and we'll take it from there. The position is on-site in London. In case it wasn't obvious, you'd be talking directly to me, the CTO, not a recruiter not an agency, but the guy who is actually writing all of the code these days. Thanks. -- J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno(a)pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com)

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Looking for help on a django project - for a front-end leaning Django developer
by Chris Adams Jan. 30, 2019

Jan. 30, 2019

Hi there, I've been working on a fun django project since summer last year, and and we're looking for either a django developer with an interest in front end and UI, or a front end developer who would like to learn a bit more django, to help us build out a new product. *The problem(s) you'd be solving* We're building a product based on open data, to make public sector tending more effective, by aggregating the data in one place, and making it easily searchable, and building data products on top of it. This might be making it possible to subscribe to new tenders published by organisations with a history of buying from small business or helping a team do cool analysis to work out the CO2 emissions you could achieve if London switched entirely to renewable power in its public procurement and so on. *The project and codebase* You would be working on a Django application, hosted on Heroku, that connects to a large PostgresSQL database and Elasticsearch cluster, in a small team, working mostly with one other developer, one data analyst and the founder, to deliver features, before making them available to users. When working with the front end, you'd be extending a bootstrap based front end, using Grunt, SCSS, and where javascript is in use, mainly jQuery based plugins. When working with charts and data visualisations, you'd be working with D3-based charts, mainly generated using Altair, a python based library for describing chats that can be rendered using D3 and Vega. Yes, there are tests and CI, and a pipeline for shipping code behind flags, but yes, as ever, the tests run slower than we'd like them to. You'd be working closest with the co-founder, a data analyst. and another python developer, who also codes django. *The team - Spend Network* Spend Network is a data analysis company dedicated to solving problems through the release of open data. We’re a small, friendly team that cares about being inclusive and doing good work. We’re open to remote working and flexible working. For instance, we'd love to work with someone who was returning to work, could only work 9-to-3, or needed a job share. We’re inquisitive, supportive and diligent. We work with procurement data and have the largest, open database of tenders in the world (you can see some of it here: [https://openopps.com) <https://openopps.com](https://openopps.com/)>). We sell our data to businesses and Governments, but also make the data available for free to academics, journalists and activists. *More details here:* https://www.notion.so/Front-end-dev-job-spec-47130890c7294035862279bc5aebff… *Getting in touch* Please send an email to Ian on contact(a)spendnetwork.com. Thanks folks! **

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A question about etiquette for posting jobs or looking for extra help on freelance gigs
by Chris Adams Jan. 30, 2019

Jan. 30, 2019

Hi folks I've been a lurker on this list for a while, and I'd like to post a request for help for a 3-6 month long freelancer project, but I wanted to check what the etiquette was before I did this about posting jobs. Is there something like [JOBS] I should put in the subject title, so people can filter it out, or similar? I had a quick skim over the mailing list archive, and I didn't see a pattern in the job ads or but I may well have missed it some guidance - if there is, would a kind soul point me to it? If there isn't, I'll just send a post in a bit with what I'm looking for. Thanks P.S. A bit more context. I work as freelancer myself, and I really like the place I'm working, but I lucked out and a funding application I sent ages ago landed <https://twitter.com/mrchrisadams/status/1085590933884817409>, so I'm looking find someone I can work with to hand over before the new project happens.

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ANN: New 1 day course in London on Successfully Delivering Data Science Projects
by Ian Ozsvald Jan. 29, 2019

Jan. 29, 2019

On March 1st I'm running a 1 day public course in central London to help existing Pythonic data scientists to improve how they derisk, design and deliver data science projects. I've built this course out of both my client coaching work and the talks that I've given at PyDataLondon, PyLondinium, PyConUK, PyDataAmsterdam, EuroPython, BudapestBI and elsewhere. The early bird tickets are still available, if you have a colleague who might benefit from having more confidence in their data science process then let them know I'm happy to answer questions. More details and tickets are here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/successfully-delivering-data-science-projects-… Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Ozsvald (Data Scientist, PyDataLondon co-chair) ian(a)IanOzsvald.com https://IanOzsvald.com https://MorConsulting.com https://twitter.com/IanOzsvald

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Data science focused jobs list - extending my 'first post gratis' offer to companies here
by Ian Ozsvald Jan. 26, 2019

Jan. 26, 2019

In addition to various open source activities (e.g. co-founding the PyDataLondon meetup and conference series) I also run a data science and data engineering jobs list focused on roles in the UK. The initial aim was to help bind the nascent Pythonic data science that was growing out of London. Several years later I have 850+ members on the list, I send out a jobs update every 2 weeks to everyone. The list includes various book and video recommendations and currently includes an educational series on geodata parsing for data scientists. If anyone here is recruiting a data scientist or data engineer - send me an email, I'd be happy to include your job on the list. I offer all PyDataLondon members a gratis first post, if you're contributing to our Pythonic ecosystem in some way then I'll offer the same gratis post to you (otherwise a commercial rate applies). If you're looking for a data science/engineering job, you'll probably want to join the list. It is run via mailchimp, your email is never shared, you can unsubscribe at any time. You'll get a mail every 2 weeks with 12 or so relevant jobs that are UK focused. Join up here if you'd like to receive the list, the next jobs post goes out this Monday evening: http://ianozsvald.com/data-science-jobs/ Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Ozsvald (Data Scientist, PyDataLondon co-chair) ian(a)IanOzsvald.com http://IanOzsvald.com http://MorConsulting.com http://twitter.com/IanOzsvald

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PyDataLondon 5th annual conference on July 12-14 - Sponsorship Call
by Ian Ozsvald Jan. 26, 2019

Jan. 26, 2019

Our PyDataLondon annual conference is in its 5th year. We're entirely volunteer run, backed by NumFOCUS in the US, with all raised funds going to NumFOCUS to support scientific open source packages like Pandas, Numpy and Jupyter via sprints, diversity outreach and events. PyData is a global meetup and conference series, our PyDataLondon is the largest meetup (with almost 9,000 members) of them all. Our Call for Proposals for speakers will start in a month or so. We've started to take sponsorship from last year's sponsors and I'm keen that if anyone here wants a chance to reach 500 data scientists and data engineers, they get a fair chance at securing a booth. The prospectus is on the top-right link ("Sponsor") as a PDF: https://pydata.org/ and our dates are here: https://pydata.org/london2019/ This is NumFOCUS if you're not familiar with the how the money goes back into our Python (and Julia and R) open source data science community: https://numfocus.org/ Here's a write-up for last year's conference to give you an idea of what we get up to: https://ianozsvald.com/2018/04/30/pydatalondon-2018-and-creating-correct-an… I'm happy to answer any questions. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Ozsvald (Data Scientist, PyDataLondon co-chair) ian(a)IanOzsvald.com http://IanOzsvald.com http://ModelInsight.io http://twitter.com/IanOzsvald

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European pandas summit
by Marc Garcia Jan. 9, 2019

Jan. 9, 2019

Hi there, The first weekend of February we're having a gathering of contributors of pandas and its ecosystem in London. We'll be sprinting and having technical discussions during the weekend. And Friday afternoon there will be a session with talks, discussions and updates. If you're a contributor, and you want to attend, please get in touch. Also, we're organising a panel with corporate users to discuss how pandas is used in organisations. And we have couple of spots lefts for lightning talks. If you are or you know of someone who would like to participate in any, let me know. Ideally someone who increases the diversity of our so far only white male speakers. Finally, if pandas is critical for your company, and your company wants to get involved in its development, please let me know too. We'd like to have some informal discussions on Friday to see how companies can better support pandas development. Link to the event: https://python-sprints.github.io/europandas2019/ Cheers!

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Python 3 environment for Android 5 Lollipop
by Richard Watt Jan. 8, 2019

Jan. 8, 2019

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New year, New London Python Code Dojo
by Gautier HAYOUN Jan. 3, 2019

Jan. 3, 2019

Python-UK! The London Python Code Dojo is coming back next week, Thursday 10th of Jan at 6:30pm. Get your tickets while they last at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-10-episode-5-… We will come back to Essence digitak: UK House, 180 Oxford Street, W1D 1NN. We will have our usual mixture of socialising, and hacking on silly problems. For those who wish, there will be post-Dojo socialising in a nearby pub. And of course the O'Reilly book give away. > What is a dojo? > A coding dojo is a safe place (we use the PyCon UK code of conduct) to deliberately practise and develop your coding skills, and perhaps learn something new too. We don't really (read: never) stick to a strict dojo format but rather brainstorm ideas for problems to solve, choosing one by popular, if complicated, vote, and then break into teams courtesy of the London Python Dojo Fully Patented Numbering Scheme for an hour and a half of furious coding (at least, furious something). To wrap the evening up each team does a “show and tell”, and end with drinks in the pub. All programming abilities welcome, we have diverse attendees ranging from beginners to core Python contributors! Gautier for the London Python Code Dojo organisers >

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