There are talks or blog posts you keep returning too. Either because you want to share them with someone else, or because you periodically feel like you want to re-read or re-watch them, and every time, you get a deeper understanding of what is discussed.
In-person conferences are coming back in 2022! I had been meaning to attend PyData London for quite some time, and I finally got the opportunity this year. The venue is great, nearby the Tower of London, offering us a magnificent view over the Thames while nibbling scones between talks.
Choosing which talks you attend at a conference is always a bit of gambling. You might end up listening to a talk not intended for you — either rehashing basics you know by heart, or so complex you’re lost after the speaker introduction slide. You might have hoped this talk to be about the theory behind GANs, and it ends up focusing on practical implementation issues — or vice versa.
I had the honor to give a remote talk at the French Django conference on September 14.
I am very happy to have been accepted to speak at two great conferences this fall, the EuroScipy in Bilbao and the PyConDE in Berlin. I will talk about two of my favourite topics, DataOps problematics with a talk on “Tests for Data Scientists”, explaining good practices from Software Engineering, at the EuroScipy; and a talk about “Data privacy in Natural Language Processing” in Berlin.
Last May, I was lucky to attend PyData Amsterdam 2019, and even had the opportunity to present a tutorial on Friday.
If you want to play with the code, the notebook is available here
In order to optimise a NLP preprocessing pipeline, or to be able to tag a batch of documents and to present a user only with results in their preferred language, it might be useful to automatically determine the language of a text sample.