Episode 11 - A Year in Review

This month we thought we would take a break from our usual episode format and have ourselves as the guests. Listen to us reflect on our year volunteering with PyDataMCR. We talk about what we did this year, including Google Next! We also talk a little about learning to rank. We realise this is an insider view, so this months meetup will be an open retro so have a think about what you want from next year.

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Sponsors

LadBible - ladbible.com/

Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/

Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/

Our Collaborators: 

HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/

Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk

Django Girls - djangogirls.org/

Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/

Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org.uk/

Lambda Lounge - http://lambdalounge.org.uk/

What we’ve done this year…

hacktoberfest - hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com 

blog posts - tinyurl.com/tnkzafr
tinyurl.com/urn8twp
tinyurl.com/too86wj

Learning to rank resources

• Reinforcement Learning to Rank with Markov Decision Process-  http://bigdatalab.ac.cn/~junxu/publications/SIGIR2017_RL_L2R.pdf
• Reinforcement Learning to Rank in E-Commerce Search Engine: Formalization, Analysis, and Application arxiv.org/abs/1803.00710 medium.com/@alitech_2017/unlocking-insights-from-multi-round-searches-with-reinforcement-learning-74f7143acf08 youtube.com/watch?v=AXa3CW68xks

Matt Crooks Medium: Louvain clustering - medium.com/@DrMattCrooks 

Google NEXT 

Google NEXT - cloud.withgoogle.com/next/uk/ 

Cloud Build - cloud.google.com/cloud-build/ 

Cloud Run -  cloud.google.com/run/ 

Trifactor - trifacta.com 

Cloud Dataprep by Trifactor - cloud.google.com/run/ 

Tool Great Expectations - github.com/great-expectations/great_expectations 

Social 

Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Slack -  http://bit.ly/35KGOgR 

Twitter - @PyDataMCR