PyData London
@pydatalondon.bsky.social
https://london.pydata.org
We run a monthly meetup and host the annual PyData London conference. PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, helping our community share ideas and learn from each other.
https://www.meetup.com/PyData-London-Meetup/
We run a monthly meetup and host the annual PyData London conference. PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, helping our community share ideas and learn from each other.
https://www.meetup.com/PyData-London-Meetup/
1. And finally we have a lightning talk on USearch: The Engine Behind Most New Search & RAG Pipelines - Ash Vardanian
USearch might be the most widely used search engine you’ve never heard of, up there with FAISS and Lucene. It even supports semantic search and geospatial indexing!
USearch might be the most widely used search engine you’ve never heard of, up there with FAISS and Lucene. It even supports semantic search and geospatial indexing!
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
1. And finally we have a lightning talk on USearch: The Engine Behind Most New Search & RAG Pipelines - Ash Vardanian
USearch might be the most widely used search engine you’ve never heard of, up there with FAISS and Lucene. It even supports semantic search and geospatial indexing!
USearch might be the most widely used search engine you’ve never heard of, up there with FAISS and Lucene. It even supports semantic search and geospatial indexing!
Our first lightning talk is Mise and easy: managing environments the fun way - Connor Adams. Environment management is very messy across languages. Mise can make your life much easier!
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Our first lightning talk is Mise and easy: managing environments the fun way - Connor Adams. Environment management is very messy across languages. Mise can make your life much easier!
Next tonight we’re hearing about No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy from @feregri.no
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Next tonight we’re hearing about No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy from @feregri.no
Starting tonight’s meet up with @geirfreysson.bsky.social
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent.
His main motivation was to beat his brother at FPL!
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent.
His main motivation was to beat his brother at FPL!
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Starting tonight’s meet up with @geirfreysson.bsky.social
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent.
His main motivation was to beat his brother at FPL!
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent.
His main motivation was to beat his brother at FPL!
Our next meetup is on Tuesday (4 November) and as ever the waiting list is building....
If you can't make it, we'd be very grateful if you could unRSVP and let someone on the waitlist take your spot.
But otherwise see you there for amazing talks and conversations!
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
If you can't make it, we'd be very grateful if you could unRSVP and let someone on the waitlist take your spot.
But otherwise see you there for amazing talks and conversations!
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
PyData London - 101st Meetup, Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD
**Please note**:
1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the **[Nu
www.meetup.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our next meetup is on Tuesday (4 November) and as ever the waiting list is building....
If you can't make it, we'd be very grateful if you could unRSVP and let someone on the waitlist take your spot.
But otherwise see you there for amazing talks and conversations!
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
If you can't make it, we'd be very grateful if you could unRSVP and let someone on the waitlist take your spot.
But otherwise see you there for amazing talks and conversations!
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
Reposted by PyData London
Yeah, back at the PyData meetups!
It's nearly that time again! Join us on Tue 4 Nov for the 101st PyData London meetup.
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
PyData London - 101st Meetup, Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD
**Please note**:
1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the **[Nu
www.meetup.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Yeah, back at the PyData meetups!
Reposted by PyData London
I'm talking about building AI agents at PyData London. Very much looking forward to this!
It's nearly that time again! Join us on Tue 4 Nov for the 101st PyData London meetup.
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
PyData London - 101st Meetup, Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD
**Please note**:
1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the **[Nu
www.meetup.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm talking about building AI agents at PyData London. Very much looking forward to this!
It's nearly that time again! Join us on Tue 4 Nov for the 101st PyData London meetup.
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
PyData London - 101st Meetup, Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD
**Please note**:
1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the **[Nu
www.meetup.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's nearly that time again! Join us on Tue 4 Nov for the 101st PyData London meetup.
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
Using Hugging Face's smolagents framework to create a Fantasy Premier League AI Agent - @geirfreysson.bsky.social
No More Boilerplate: Data-Driven Testing Made Easy - @feregri.no
www.meetup.com/pydata-londo...
Up next: @hevansdev.bsky.social Answering a dumb question with a smart bird feeder.
Is this robin abnormally large?
Is this robin abnormally large?
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Up next: @hevansdev.bsky.social Answering a dumb question with a smart bird feeder.
Is this robin abnormally large?
Is this robin abnormally large?
Now hearing HangMAN vs AI - Kavit Tolia
Learnings building a custom transformer to play hangman.
Learnings building a custom transformer to play hangman.
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Now hearing HangMAN vs AI - Kavit Tolia
Learnings building a custom transformer to play hangman.
Learnings building a custom transformer to play hangman.
Next up Why Python is the best language for algorithmic trading from @richardhickling.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Next up Why Python is the best language for algorithmic trading from @richardhickling.bsky.social
Now hearing from Victor Zommers on his experiments getting LLMs to play Go. They were not good, not only losing to KataGo but also Wally, developed in 1981 with just 7 rules.
October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Now hearing from Victor Zommers on his experiments getting LLMs to play Go. They were not good, not only losing to KataGo but also Wally, developed in 1981 with just 7 rules.
Next up we have Sam Joseph LLMs can tell jokes, but they’re pretty bad. Sam found he can breed better jokes using ideas from evolutionary computing—with pretty decent results!
October 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Next up we have Sam Joseph LLMs can tell jokes, but they’re pretty bad. Sam found he can breed better jokes using ideas from evolutionary computing—with pretty decent results!
Our first talk tonight is from PyDatalondon founder @ianozsvald.bsky.social on his playgroup: a collaborative space to explore really difficult but interesting problems together like ARC AGI, diagnosing bugs agenically and making LLMs funny.
October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Our first talk tonight is from PyDatalondon founder @ianozsvald.bsky.social on his playgroup: a collaborative space to explore really difficult but interesting problems together like ARC AGI, diagnosing bugs agenically and making LLMs funny.
It’s finally time! 🥳 PyData London 100 is here! 💯
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s finally time! 🥳 PyData London 100 is here! 💯
It’s nearly time for our 100th Meetup! 🥳
Looking forward to a full roster of lightning talks, reflections from organisers past and present (including many of the OG crew!) and of course well-deserved celebrations--maybe even with cake! 🎂
Looking forward to a full roster of lightning talks, reflections from organisers past and present (including many of the OG crew!) and of course well-deserved celebrations--maybe even with cake! 🎂
Our PyData London Meetup chapter is about to celebrate its 100th meetup tomorrow! 💯
We’re beyond proud to see how far our community has come, and can’t wait to hear all about this milestone event! Congrats to our fabulous PyData London Meetup chapter! 🥳
We’re beyond proud to see how far our community has come, and can’t wait to hear all about this milestone event! Congrats to our fabulous PyData London Meetup chapter! 🥳
PyData London - 100th Meetup, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD **Please note**: 1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨 2. This event follows the **[Nu
bit.ly
October 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It’s nearly time for our 100th Meetup! 🥳
Looking forward to a full roster of lightning talks, reflections from organisers past and present (including many of the OG crew!) and of course well-deserved celebrations--maybe even with cake! 🎂
Looking forward to a full roster of lightning talks, reflections from organisers past and present (including many of the OG crew!) and of course well-deserved celebrations--maybe even with cake! 🎂
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
What began as a side project in the 1990s now powers AI, data science and some of the world's biggest companies. But Python almost disappeared at one point.
Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more!
youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
What began as a side project in the 1990s now powers AI, data science and some of the world's biggest companies. But Python almost disappeared at one point.
Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more!
youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
YouTube video by CultRepo
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
What began as a side project in the 1990s now powers AI, data science and some of the world's biggest companies. But Python almost disappeared at one point.
Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more!
youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
What began as a side project in the 1990s now powers AI, data science and some of the world's biggest companies. But Python almost disappeared at one point.
Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more!
youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
Reposted by PyData London
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes
Presentation at @pydatalondon.bsky.social, discussing how skrub facilitates data transformations & wrangling on dataframes for machine learning
and introducing the exciting "DataOps" to tune and re-apply any wrangling code
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
Presentation at @pydatalondon.bsky.social, discussing how skrub facilitates data transformations & wrangling on dataframes for machine learning
and introducing the exciting "DataOps" to tune and re-apply any wrangling code
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes
While data-science talks a lot about machine learning, much of the work is preparing and assembling dataframes. Such work is very manual. Here I introdu…
speakerdeck.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes
Presentation at @pydatalondon.bsky.social, discussing how skrub facilitates data transformations & wrangling on dataframes for machine learning
and introducing the exciting "DataOps" to tune and re-apply any wrangling code
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
Presentation at @pydatalondon.bsky.social, discussing how skrub facilitates data transformations & wrangling on dataframes for machine learning
and introducing the exciting "DataOps" to tune and re-apply any wrangling code
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
Last but definitely not least we have Ruby Waller on Apprenticeships in Data: a practical pathway into the profession.
September 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Last but definitely not least we have Ruby Waller on Apprenticeships in Data: a practical pathway into the profession.
Our first lightning talk from Imamuddin Shaik on Reliable Agents: Context Engineering, Roles, and What 1M-Token Windows Don’t Fix.
September 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Our first lightning talk from Imamuddin Shaik on Reliable Agents: Context Engineering, Roles, and What 1M-Token Windows Don’t Fix.
Next up we have Craig West on Breaking the Black Box — evaluating AI agents!
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Next up we have Craig West on Breaking the Black Box — evaluating AI agents!
Our first talk tonight is from @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social on @skrub-data.bsky.social.
Real tables are too messy for sklearn - skrub preprocesses them for you.
Real tables are too messy for sklearn - skrub preprocesses them for you.
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our first talk tonight is from @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social on @skrub-data.bsky.social.
Real tables are too messy for sklearn - skrub preprocesses them for you.
Real tables are too messy for sklearn - skrub preprocesses them for you.
Excited to kick off PyData London 99 with an amazing lineup tonight!
September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Excited to kick off PyData London 99 with an amazing lineup tonight!
PyData London 2025 keynote: Tony Mears -- Innovation is Dead
Innovation gets stifled in the public sector by risk aversion and punishment for failure.
But there is hope: Tony shares a way forward, drawing on his experience directing operations in the NHS and UK Space Agency.
youtu.be/XMLbJYM46xo
Innovation gets stifled in the public sector by risk aversion and punishment for failure.
But there is hope: Tony shares a way forward, drawing on his experience directing operations in the NHS and UK Space Agency.
youtu.be/XMLbJYM46xo
Keynote- Tony Mears | PyData London 25
YouTube video by PyData
youtu.be
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
PyData London 2025 keynote: Tony Mears -- Innovation is Dead
Innovation gets stifled in the public sector by risk aversion and punishment for failure.
But there is hope: Tony shares a way forward, drawing on his experience directing operations in the NHS and UK Space Agency.
youtu.be/XMLbJYM46xo
Innovation gets stifled in the public sector by risk aversion and punishment for failure.
But there is hope: Tony shares a way forward, drawing on his experience directing operations in the NHS and UK Space Agency.
youtu.be/XMLbJYM46xo
Join us at the 99th PyData London Meetup — with a talk from a genuine PyData celebrity! 🤩
Tue 2 September 19:00
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes — @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? — Victor Zommers
meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...
Tue 2 September 19:00
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes — @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? — Victor Zommers
meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...
PyData London - 99th Meetup, Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD
**Please note**:
1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the **[Nu
meetu.ps
August 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Join us at the 99th PyData London Meetup — with a talk from a genuine PyData celebrity! 🤩
Tue 2 September 19:00
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes — @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? — Victor Zommers
meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...
Tue 2 September 19:00
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes — @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? — Victor Zommers
meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...