It might be worth looking at other data and dev groups on meetup as well. There are plenty of non-python focused groups around who might still enjoy the chance to get in on a data driven event.
Nick. On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM Tom Wright <t...@tatw.name> wrote: > Hey, > > So there are a couple of python events that you could advertise at. The > python coding dojo is quite big, and if you contact ntoll or tom vines you > could probably get them to make an announcement for you. The django meet up > is also quite big. > > It might also be worth scouring meetup.com (most groups tend to publicise > themselves on this) for relevant groups and contacting their admins to ask > you can post to the list. I know there are a couple of groups related to > data analysis. http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Python-Group-TLPG/ might > be of particular interest, though I've never been. > > Other potentially interesting people to talk to are Bank of America (they > have an office in London!), since they do all their statistical work in > python (with a range of their own slightly strange tools). Also perhaps > some of the universities: UCL and London Imperial are probably the big > ones, and I imagine they have somewhere you can post. If you had issues > posting I might be able to dig up some contacts for you: I have a friend > who did a PhD at UCL, and we regularly higher people from imperial. > > You might want to think about your audience as well, for example in my > experience the python coding dojo has quite a lot of people new > programming, and this can be true of lots of meet up groups in general, so > this might affect what material you want to cover. I'd say there are three > distinct audiences you should be aware of "programmers that want to learn > to maths, statisticians who want to learn to program, and people who want > to learn to do both at the same time but aren't necessarily very commited" > > I should also probably do the mandatory advert for my company ( > http://www.gambitresearch.com/about.html), we program in python and do a > reasonable amount of statistics, so if you decided you like London so much > after giving your talk that you wanted to move here and get a job.... > > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Katharine Jarmul <kjar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> My name is Katharine; I live in Berlin, Germany and write Python (/me >> waves). I'm writing here because I'm promoting a course on learning Python >> data wrangling / big data in London next month and was hoping for >> suggestions on places to promote the class. It's a two day introduction to >> data analysis with Python covering lots of pandas, some hadoop and spark as >> well as some scaling and automation. Any tips on getting the word out would >> be wonderful. (eventbrite link: >> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-wrangling-with-python-tickets-24508496573 >> ). >> Also, if any Python events are happening that week (May 23-29) I'd love to >> hear about them and meet some London pythonistas. :) >> >> Thanks in advance for any / all advice! If you'd rather reach out via >> twitter I'm @kjam. >> -katharine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> >> > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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