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🎟️ Tickets are on sale for PyData London 2025! Join us June 6th–8th at Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's, for three incredible days of learning, networking, and inspiration.

Website: pydata.org/london2025

Connect with data enthusiasts from all domains, explore cutting-edge tools, and contribute to the PyData Community. Proceeds support NumFOCUS initiatives like project grants and scholarships. 🌟

Secure your spot now! 🚀 #london #PyData #NumFOCUS #coding #python

"I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." ... I wish I could say. ⁉️
PyCon DE & PyData 2025

I wish I could have attended PyCon DE & PyData 2025, but was unable to due to unfortunate factors. Let me explain.

My name is Jessica, and I'm a maintainer of python libraries used by millions. I've used python for over 10 years, and have recently started joining the community where ever I'm able to.
I'm also fully blind.

Back In January/February I applied for financial aid to attend, and at the end of February my application was gracefully accepted.
Come the very start of March, when my acceptance had been confirmed, I wrote to the main PyCon DE & PyData help desk, explaining my situation, that I'm fully blind, and asking if any accommodations were possible and could be made.

A few days later I got a reply, that my request had been forwarded to the correct team, and that THEY would get back to me.

Waiting, is not fun, especially when you also have to book flights and accommodations for being there, especially if you don't know if it's all going to be for nothing.
A "Sorry, we are unable to provide accommodations" is totally okay, but that was not the answer I got.

I heard nothing.

Having heard nothing at end of March, I reached out again, to the help desk, asking for a followup at the start of April.
A whole week later, a little over a week away from the conference at this point, I get a response from the main desk again, letting me know that they've followed up directly with the on-site team, and someone will be in contact with me shortly to coordinate the best possible support for me.

Yet again - silence.
No email, no call, no dm... Nothing.

So I ended up not being able to attend. Not being able to join the community that I have come to love and cherish so much. And it's especially hard, because it's the closest PyCon to where I leave.

And let me be clear. I would totally have accepted a no, a sorry we can't do that. But hearing nothing at all, even after multiple followups, is not acceptable, regardless of if they were able to provide accommodations or not.

Personal opinion?
I feel like the community, in some way, has failed. For all the talk about accessibility, inclusion and diversity, it only feels like that mattered in this case if you were able to make things accessible yourself, if you were able to include yourself.

"I came for the language, but couldn't join the community" 💔

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#pycon#PyConDE#pydata

Robin Linacre - Rapid deduplication and fuzzy matching of large datasets

"This talk provides beginners with everything they need to start linking and deduping large datasets using Splink a free Python library."

youtube.com/watch?v=eQtFkI8f02

moj-analytical-services.github

Python is the best language for statistical analysis and data science hands down. I'm currently porting all my reproducible pipelines (R in Nix shells) over to Jupyter notebooks (pip is all you need) running inside docker containers
long live Pandas!
this now a #pydata account

During a recent coffee chat with Wes McKinney and Hadley Wickham, a participant asked a great question:

"How can Posit Workbench or Connect help us integrate Python scripts and R models into a cohesive and efficient workflow?"

This blog post helps unpack further how Posit’s professional products, Workbench and Connect, along with our open-source ecosystem, help create a smoother, more collaborative data science experience.

posit.co/blog/hadley-wickham-o
#RStats #python #DataScience #pydata

Call for sponsors - PyData Paris 2025 !

Join us and be part of one of the best open-source events of the year.

Sponsoring will showcase your support to the community and allow you to reach a wide audience of tech and data enthusiasts from academia and the industry.

Contact us:
Email: pydata@quantstack.net
Website: pydata.org/paris2025/

Let's grow together at PyData Paris 2025!

We're looking for another speaker at PyData Southampton for our meetup on 15th April. If you can get to Southampton, UK (just 1hr15 by train from London!) you'll be sure of a warm welcome. Anything on Python, data science, machine learning, AI etc very welcome. See meetup.com/pydata-southampton/ for previous events to get a flavour of our group.

Drop me a message and I'll put you in touch with the other organisers.

@PyData #python #pydata #ai #ml

MeetupPyData Southampton | MeetupPyData Southampton is the Southampton chapter of the international PyData community.**Presenting at PyData Southampton**If you would like to give a talk, either a full talk or a short lightning talk, please fill this [Google form](https://bit.ly/pydataSoton-talks) with some initial details and we wi