PyData 2014 | London | Feb 21 - 23

Conference Schedule

Day 1
Tutorials
February 21

Day 2
Talks
February 22

Day 3
Talks
February 23

Schedule for Friday, Feb 21, 2014

Time	Beginner/Intermediate Tutorials	Intermediate/Advanced Tutorials
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.	Eurex Tutorial Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Yves Hilpisch (The Python Quants GmbH) Eurex Tutorial - Interactive Financial Analytics with Python and IPython -- With Examples Based on the VSTOXX Volatility Index **** Requires Separate Registration **** Room: Space 39
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Registration and Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.	Jonny Edwards (Thoughtful Technology) Recommenders in Python Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Bertrand NOUVEL (WIDE IO) An introduction to video action recognition Level: Advanced Room: Sandbox 2-3
1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.	Oleksandr Pryymak (skimlinks.com) Probabilistic Data Structures and Approximate Solutions Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	Mike Müller (Python Academy GmbH & Co. KG) Faster Python Programs through Optimization Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
2:50 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.	Break & Snacks
3:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.	Bryan Van De Ven (Continuum Analytics) Bokeh - Interactive Visualization for Large Datasets Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	James Powell (NYC Python) Embeddings of Python Level: Advanced Room: Sandbox 2-3
4:50 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.	Karim Chine (CLOUD ERA LTD) Python, R and Cloud Computing for Higher Education and Research Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	David Cournapeau , Simon Jagoe (Enthought) Databases for Scientists: Narrowing the Gap Between Array Computing and Databases Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3

Schedule for Saturday, Feb 22, 2014

Time	Beginner/Intermediate Talks	Intermediate/Advanced Talks
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Felix Fernandez Deutsche Börse Python in the Financial Industry: The Universal Tool for End-to-End Development Room: Space 39
10:10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.	Jurgen Van Gael (Rangespan, Ltd.) Hierarchical Text Classification using Python (and friends) Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	Francesc Alted (Blosc) Blosc: Sending data from memory to CPU (and back) faster than memcpy() Level: Advanced Room: Sandbox 2-3
11:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.	Kayla Iacovino (University of Cambridge) Life after matplotlib: Harder, better, faster, stronger Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Ian Huston (Pivotal) Massively Parallel Processing with Procedural Python Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.	Lunch
12:40 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.	Prash Majmudar (Growth Intelligence) Measuring the digital economy using big data Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Martin Goodson (Skimlinks) Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
1:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.	James Blackburn (Man AHL) Python and MongoDB as a platform for financial market data Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	Ian Ozsvald (Mor Consulting) The High Performance Python Landscape Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Break & Snacks
2:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.	Eric Drass You give me data, I give you art. Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Mike Mueller (Python Academy GmbH & Co. KG) Shared Memory Parallelism with Python Level: Advanced Room: Sandbox 2-3
3:20 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Kyran (Showmedo Ltd. ) Getting it out there: Python, Javascript and Web-visualizations Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	Kostas (University of Athens, Greece) Authorship Attribution using Python Level: Advanced Room: Sandbox 2-3
4:10 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.	Linda Uruchurtu (DBi) A Beginner's guide to Random Forests - R vs Python Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Ben Moran Data Science at Berkeley Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Ian Ozsvald (Mor Consulting (AI/Data Science in London)) , James Powell (NYC Python) Panel Discussion: "Shouldn't more companies be using data science?" Room: Space 39
6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.	Skimlinks PYDATA AFTER PARTY Room: Levante Bar

Schedule for Sunday, Feb 23, 2014

Time	Beginner/Intermediate Talks	Intermediate/Advanced Talks
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Job Fair & Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Gael Varoquaux INRIA Building a Cutting-Edge Data Processing Environment on a Budget Room: Space 39
10:10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.	Peter Passaro (NousPlan) DataViz Showdown: a comparison of different data visualisation libraries Level: Novice Room: Space 39	James Powell (NYC Python) Generator Showcase Showdown Level: Advanced Room: Sandbox 2-3
11:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.	Neri Van Otten (Conversocial) Adaptive Filtering of Tweets with Machine Learning Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	Yves Hilpisch (The Python Quants GmbH) DX Analytics -- A Python-based Library for Derivatives Analytics Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.	Lunch
12:40 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.	Emlyn Clay (OpenVivo Ltd.) Python, Pharmaceuticals and Drug Discovery Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Bart Baddeley A Full Stack Approach to Data Visualization: Terabytes (and Beyond) at Facebook Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
1:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.	Philippe Bracke (London School of Economics) House Prices and Rents: Evidence from a Matched Dataset in Central London Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Gilles Louppe (University of Liege, Belgium; Scikit-Learn) , Peter Prettenhofer (DataRobot, scikit-learn) Gradient Boosted Regression Trees in scikit-learn Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Break & Snacks
2:40 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.	Mark Basham (Diamond Light Source) Python for High Throughput Science Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Greg Detre Writing a simple backend framework for 1-line AB tests in Django Room: Sandbox 2-3
3:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.	Clyde Fare (Imperial College) How to build a SQL-based data warehouse for 100+ billion rows in Python Level: Novice Room: Space 39	Mark Grundland (Functional Elegance) Winning Ways for Your Visualization Plays Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
4:20 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Jonathan Sedar (Applied AI) , Philip Elson (Met Office) Correcting 10 years of messy CRM data: A practical data science project & Introducing Cartopy Level: Intermediate Room: Space 39	Dirk Gorissen (BAE Systems Research) Measuring and Predicting Departures from Routine in Human Mobility Level: Intermediate Room: Sandbox 2-3
5:05 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Lightning Talks Room: Space 39