Join us for a relaxed evening of free pizza, drinks and great talks on Python, data and open source software at PyData Exeter!
AGENDA
18:45 - Doors open
19:15 - Talks start
20:30 - Talks finish. Stick around for a drink and networking at the CUCKOO taproom across the road.
SPONSORS
Exeter Innovation Hub
Butterfly Data
Mekion
NumFOCUS
Talk #1
Hugh Evans, "Mapping the PyData Community with Python and Web Scraping"
In this talk I'll be walking through my project building maps of the PyData community using data scraped from Meetup. Featuring insights into the PyData community, geo-encoding, map making with Folium, and a call to support your local PyData group.
Talk #2
Anna Andersson, "Organising a PyData Meetup with Ontologies: From Schema to Reasoning"
Ontologies provide a powerful way to move from raw data to structured, machine-understandable knowledge but for many practitioners, they remain abstract and difficult to apply. In this talk, we bridge that gap with a practical, hands-on example. Using the familiar scenario of organising a PyData meetup, we will build a simple ontology to model speakers, talks, venues, and community interactions. From there, we explore how this semantic layer enables reasoning — uncovering implicit relationships and validating assumptions in ways that traditional data models cannot. The goal of this talk is to make ontologies concrete, approachable, and useful, demonstrating how they can support better data integration, clearer thinking, and more intelligent systems in real-world workflows.
Talk #3
Venkata Prudhvi Kante, "Local Shops are closing at record speed. I walked past the empty units everyday - until the data told a surprising story"
I live in Exeter. I started counting empty shopfronts on my walks and every week there were more. So, I did what
Join us for a relaxed evening of free pizza, drinks and great talks on Python, data and open source software at PyData Exeter! AGENDA 18:45 - Doors open 19:15 - Talks start 20:30 - Talks finish. Stick around for a drink and networking at the CUCKOO taproom across the road. SPONSORS Exeter Innovation Hub Butterfly Data Mekion NumFOCUS Talk #1 Hugh Evans, "Mapping the PyData Community with Python and Web Scraping" In this talk I'll be walking through my project building maps of the PyData community using data scraped from Meetup. Featuring insights into the PyData community, geo-encoding, map making with Folium, and a call to support your local PyData group. Talk #2 Anna Andersson, "Organising a PyData Meetup with Ontologies: From Schema to Reasoning" Ontologies provide a powerful way to move from raw data to structured, machine-understandable knowledge but for many practitioners, they remain abstract and difficult to apply. In this talk, we bridge that gap with a practical, hands-on example. Using the familiar scenario of organising a PyData meetup, we will build a simple ontology to model speakers, talks, venues, and community interactions. From there, we explore how this semantic layer enables reasoning — uncovering implicit relationships and validating assumptions in ways that traditional data models cannot. The goal of this talk is to make ontologies concrete, approachable, and useful, demonstrating how they can support better data integration, clearer thinking, and more intelligent systems in real-world workflows. Talk #3 Venkata Prudhvi Kante, "Local Shops are closing at record speed. I walked past the empty units everyday - until the data told a surprising story" I live in Exeter. I started counting empty shopfronts on my walks and every week there were more. So, I did what
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