Entrepreneurial Geekiness

At this year’s PyDataLondon 2024 conference I ran my regular Leadership discussion for team leaders & department heads. It is an open session for 40-60 senior people, under Chatham House rules,...

https://ianozsvald.com/2024/06/19/leadership-discussion-session-at-pydatalondon-2024/

This has been terribly quiet since July 2022, oops. It turns out that having an infant totally sucks your time! In the meantime I’ve continued to build up: Training courses – I’ve just list...

https://ianozsvald.com/2024/05/30/what-ive-been-up-to-since-2022/

I ran another Executives at PyData discussion session for 50+ leaders at our PyDataLondon conference a couple of weeks back. We had great conversation which dug into a lot of topics. I’ve writt...

https://ianozsvald.com/2022/07/01/upcoming-discussion-calls-for-team-structure-and-buidling-a-backlog-for-data-science-leads/

I’ve used the Pandas data science toolkit for over a decade and I’ve filed a couple of issues, but I’ve never contributed to the source. At the weekend I got to balance the books a little b...

https://ianozsvald.com/2021/03/10/my-first-commit-to-pandas/

On November 11th we saw the most ambitious ever PyData conference – PyData Global 2020 was a combination of world-wide PyData groups putting on a huge event to both build our international comm...

https://ianozsvald.com/2020/11/30/skinny-pandas-riding-on-a-rocket-at-pydataglobal-2020/

I’ve had a chance to return to talking about High Performance Python at EuroPython 2020 after my first tutorial on this topic back in 2011 in Florence. Today I spoke on Making Pandas Fly with a...

https://ianozsvald.com/2020/07/24/making-pandas-fly-at-europython-2020/

I’ve recently switched back from Sourdough yeast to dried packet yeast mix, given a recipe by a colleague (thanks Nick!). I immediately set to work modifying his recipe (well, cutting out steps...

https://ianozsvald.com/2020/07/15/weekish-notes-2/

I gave another iteration of my Making Pandas Fly talk sequence for PyDataAmsterdam recently and received some lovely postcards from attendees as a result. I’ve also had time to list new iterati...

https://ianozsvald.com/2020/07/05/weekish-notes/

I thank the PyDataAmsterdam 2020 organisers for another chance to speak on Making Pandas Fly (PyDataAmsterdam 2020). This variant of the talk focuses more on: Understanding when categories beat s...

https://ianozsvald.com/2020/06/23/making-pandas-fly-for-pydataamsterdam-2020/

Over the weekend I hacked on dtype_diet – a tool for Pandas users that checks their DataFrame to see if smaller datatypes might be applicable. If so they’d offer no data loss and a reduction ...

https://ianozsvald.com/2020/06/02/weeknote-dtype-diet/