Pandas is a well-known library for data scientist yet it does not scale. Koalas provides a pandas interface for big data manipulation in spark environment. In this session, koalas usage will be demonstrated for distributed data frame manipulation. Speaker: Mr. Wong Ho Wa / Hong Kong – GitHub, Twitter, LinkedInLanguage: CantoneseDate and Time : October…
Author: Daisy Maris Fung
Building simple Transformer model for custom data
The talk introduces users to state of the art deep learning model Transformer with PyTorch and use the model for small datasets that they may have Speaker: Ms. Winnie Yeung / Hong Kong / Visa – GitHubLanguage: CantoneseDate and Time : October 9, 2021 / 11:15-11:45 (UTC+8) Speaker Introduction Winnie is a senior data scientist…
Applying ML Models to Cooling Load Prediction for Higher Energy Efficiency in Buildings – A Case Study
Being able to predict cooling load, the rate of heat removed from the indoor space, is crucial to achieve thermal comfort and high energy performance of central air-conditioning (AC) systems in buildings. In this talk, we first demonstrate feature engineering from time series data using Pandas package. With the extracted features, we develop our ML…
Is the news media polarized? Or are we conditioned to think it is?
In this talk, we aim to find if polarization is induced in a neural network by feeding it newspaper articles with manufactured sentiments according to the Allsides Media Bias chart for the level of faith people on various aisles of the political spectrum. This project consists of a set of experiments on similar data-sets from…
Metaclasses : The Realm of Metaprogramming
In this talk, we will explore the concepts of Metaprogramming using Metaclasses in Python. It is one of the most complex yet interesting topics in Python that makes Python an extremely powerful programming language. Speaker: Ms. Pratibha Jagnere / Malaysia Language: English Date and Time : October 9, 2021 / 14:00-14:30 (UTC+8) Speaker Introduction Pratibha…
Securing Django Applications
Django is the most popular Python-based web framework used for creating web applications. The web applications are vulnerable for various reasons including a) configuration settings of the web applications b) lack of implementation of security best practices and secure coding and c) lack of awareness of secure first web applications among developers. The vulnerable web…
Python Versions and Dependencies Made Easy
Managing Python versions and dependencies can be painful. JavaScript developers have their “node_modules” folders, but we don’t have “python_modules” (yet!) in Python. Instead, we have those mysterious virtual environments. And if you also want to switch between different Python versions, it can quickly turn into a mess. It doesn’t have to be that way. With…
Have a conversation with Microsoft at PyCon Hong Kong 2021
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Python on Azure: Build and deploy your Python apps in the cloud—and go further with AI and data science. Session How…
Have a conversation with MySQL at PyCon Hong Kong 2021
MySQL is the world’s most popular OS database. With its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more. Additionally, it is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by over 3,000 ISVs &…
Have a conversation with PCCW-HKT at PyCon Hong Kong 2021
PCCW Limited (SEHK: 0008) is a global company headquartered in Hong Kong which holds interests in telecommunications, media, IT solutions, property development and investment, and other businesses. The Company holds a majority stake in the HKT Trust and HKT Limited. HKT (SEHK: 6823) is Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider and a leading innovator. Its…