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Day 2

Investigating Environmental issues with Python

Mx Chiin-Rui Tan took us through a (semi-live) coding tutorial for creating this water sewage visualisation, using Python and some open data sets.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/YVHGQC/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbkdf6vl6n0

https://pick-a-side.github.io/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiin

GitHub link: https://github.com/pick-a-side/pick-a-side.github.io

Also, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdyM6WDPzCY

How to keep your database happy

Karen Jex talked us through some fundamentals of keeing a Postgres database in shape.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/7TRX8C/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7glaoEa9WQ

The Sound of Your Footsteps can Predict for Dementia

Using "Machine Hearing" techniques to perform Gait analysis to help identify markers for early on set of dementia.

MiiCare

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/WTSLRP/

Live highlights in BBC iPlayer

Really interesting and technical talk from Ben Nuttal about how the BBC Labs team developed the Live Highlights feature of iPlayer.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/SRGNUR/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGMR0oCOqI

Previous: Rapid prototyping in BBC News with Python and AWS

Multi-Objective Linear Programming to find the Best Pokémon Team

Original paper: Rhaglennu Llinol Amlamcan i Ganfod y Tîm Pokémon Gorau (in Welsh)

GitHub link: https://github.com/geraintpalmer/optimeiddio_timau_pokemon

Gerraint gave us a primer on Linear programming and how the basics work before presenting his work. He then went on to identify how and where the technique can be used.

Python library - PuLP

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/39QKMK/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVcS_X5p1h8

Open-source, developer-friendly observability in only a few lines code

Brett took us through how to build simple observability into your systems without having to use masses of code.

He used an example of Rabbits and Pandas through his Animal Buttons demo.

Modern stacks might use Prometheus but it takes quite a lot to get it set up. He is helping to work on Autometrics which is a 'plugin' replacement for it, but it much simpler.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/7RPBSW/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayH-vn7BLyk

How I used PostgreSQL® to find pictures of me at a party

A simple run through of how Tibs used [pgVector])(https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector) plus some Python image libraries to be able to find pictures (simple facial 'recognition') of him taken during various work events.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/8N9DCQ/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FqKxKVJGWQ

Code and slides link: https://github.com/Aiven-Labs/pgvector-find-faces-talk