August 2017 meetup
Date: August 29, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Singapore Power, Keppel Tower 2 #08-00, Tanjong Pagar Road
Signup: meetup page.
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
7:30pm: Talk #1: Predicting Singapore House price and rents with linear regression and neural network using URA property transaction data by Vikrant Rathore
(video)
Abstract:
I recently moved to a new home. While looking for a home I checked
propertyguru.com and 99.co, two most common place to look for buy/sell or rent
property in Singapore. But while looking at them I wanted to see if the asking
price is in-line with the actual value of the house or not. As URA (Urban
Renewal Authority) in Singapore compiles the property transaction data
(available as realis paid subscription or free with limited information). Based
on this data I thought of writing python prgram to see if can leverage machine
learning or deep learning to to train linear regression model using URA data and
predict the price based on location and size of the house and compare it with
asking price. In this attempt to write the program I trained linear regression
model using various algorithms like Elastic Net, Random Forest and linear
regression with single layer and multi-layer neural network using tensorflow.
Later compared them and then used the model to predict unseen data. In this talk
I will walk you through the journey of how I tried doing step by step using
jupyter notebook, pandas, numpy, scipy, tensorflow, keras, matplotlib. You will
see the challenges of handling categorical data for linear regression which
prefer numerical data and some of the ways to avoid over-fitting or
under-fitting. Consider it like a primer on machine learning for house
price/rental prediction for Singapore property transactions.
Bio:
Vikrant Rathore is technology professional and an entrepreneur at heart with
interest in Startups and Innovative Technology. With over 20 years of working
experience in Asia, USA and Europe, at present working on his own Startup
Komerco which is his attempt to organize global product information for
multi-channel commerce. In this endeavor leveraging Python and its excellent
libraries. Previously in China while working for arvato systems (part of
Bertelsmann, one of the largest media and services group in Europe), he helped
many multi-nationals for digital transformation and direct to consumer strategy.
He also worked with Bayer in APAC region to launch their sales force
effectiveness and customer relationship management program targeting healthcare
professionals like doctors, nurses and hospitals. In his current work whenever
necessary he leverages machine and deep learning to make decisions.
8pm: Talk #2: Introduction to BeeWare by Paul Lorett Amazona
(slides &
code,
video)
Abstract:
Toga is Python native, OS native GUI toolkit. It allows one to develop an app in
Python and deploy it as a native implementation in various platforms. Paul (who
recently attended Pycon AU 2017) will be sharing his experience in one if the
conference sprints where he contributed to the development of a toga widget. If
time allows, he'll demo an app written in python and deployed in a number of
platforms (e.g. windows, linux, etc).
Bio:
Paul is a developer who enjoys polyglot development. He uses .NET and Microsoft
Dev stack at work. Outside work, he uses other languages such as Python and R
for non-profit initiatives and various personal IoT projects.
Thanks to SP for the food and venue
and Engineers.SG for recording the event!
July 2017 meetup
Date: July 6, 7 to 9pm
Venue: Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive Haw Par Technocentre, #07-01
(map)
Signup: meetup page.
Agenda
7pm: Meet & Greet
While everyone arrives, we have the chance to chat and mingle, Zendesk is kindly
sponsoring snacks and soft-drinks.
7:30pm: Talk #1: Deep Learning with Python in ...
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May 2017 meetup
It's Slack time
We now have a slack channel open to everybody. You can join at
https://pugs-org-sg-slackin.now.sh/.
May meetup
The next PUGS meetup is planned for May 31, from 7 to 9pm at
Zendesk, 401 Commonwealth Drive Haw Par Technocentre, #07-01
(map).
RSVP at the meetup ...
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March 2017 meetup
The next PUGS meetup is planned for March 29, from 7 to 9pm at the new
Pivotal office (140 Robinson Rd, Singapore 068907, #16-00,
map).
(Note: Please have an ID with you for building security check).
RSVP at the meetup page (and please unRSVP if you can't make it ...
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February 2017 meetup
The next PUGS meetup is planned for February 22, from 7 to 9pm at the new
Carousell office (Carousell@Keppel Towers
2,
240 Tanjong Pagar Road #12-00, 088540).
RSVP on the meetup page.
Talk
(slides, video)
Lua for Python developers.
Abstract: In this introduction to Lua I'll demonstrate the ...
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Notification of PUGS AGM 2016
Dear PUGS members,
We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, October 25 from 7 to
9pm at Red Hat Singapore office (8 Shenton Way, 10-01 AXA Tower, Singapore
068811,
map)
Agenda:
- Presentation of Financial Accounts
- PyCon-APAC 2017 in Kuala Lumpur
- Activities for 2017
- Open discussion
Please join ...
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July 2016 meetup
[postfactum]
Talk
Hear no evil, see no evil, patch no evil: Or, how to monkey-patch safely.
By Graham Dumpleton
Abstract:
Python is a dynamic programming language and has a strong tradition of adhering
to a programming style called duck-typing. This means that it is possible to
easily modify an application ...
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May 2016 meetups
PyData meetup happened on May 10. The topic was "Using Luigi and Scikit-Learn to
create a Machine Learning Pipeline which trains a model and predict through a Rest API" by Atreya Biswas
(meetup page,
video).
PUGS meeting is on May 25th at Carousell,
71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #03-14 Singapore 139951 ...
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Apr 2016 meetups
April PyData meetup is on April 12. The topic is Sentiment Analysis using
Stanford's CoreNLP.
PUGS meeting is on April 18th at PayPal
(5 Temasek Blvd, #09-01 Suntec Tower Five, 038985, Singapore). RSVP here.
Big thanks to PayPal for the venue, pizzas and drinks!
Talks
-
Reinforcement learning using Python ...
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Mar 2016 meetup
Incredible turnout at yesterday's meetup.
Some pictures are here.
Big thanks to Red Hat Singapore for hosting us.
Another big thanks to semi-anonymous pizza sponsors.
Talks
-
Sayanee went through some cool stats from
https://data.webuild.sg/ showing how vibrant and diverse Singapore's
developers scene is.
-
Ivan's ...
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Nov 2015 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on the 27th of November from 7pm to 9pm at the
PayPal office (5 Temasek Blvd, Suntec Tower Five, Level 7, 038985, map).
RSVP at the meetup page.
Agenda:
- Introduce the new PUGS committee members and a word of appreciation for the
old exco ...
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Notification of PUGS AGM 2015
Dear PUGS members,
We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on the 28th October 2015.
You are cordially invited to take part in our elections or to volunteer for a
spot on the committee!
Date/time: 28th October 2015 19:00
Venue: Paypal Office 5 Temasek Blvd, Suntec Tower ...
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Apr 2015 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on the 30th of April from 7pm to 9pm at the
hackerspace.sg.
Talks
- "How I built a SFTP service using Paramiko" by Steve (slides on github, video).
- "Python tips: Packing and Unpacking" by Shubham (notebook, video)
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Mar 2015 meetup
Another month, another meetup!
This time it'll be on the 26th of March at the ThoughtWorks' office.
Venue: 87B Amoy Street #03/04, Singapore 069906, Singapore
If you want to attend then please sign up on our meetup
page, as there is limited space please only mark yourself as ...
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Feb 2015 meetup
Next regular user meeting is scheduled for February 26 at 7pm at PayPal
Singapore (UPDATE: at Millenia Office), 1 Temasek
Avenue, Millenia Tower, #14-01. Our friendly hosts have graciously offered to
provide pizzas and drinks!
Speakers:
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Jan 2015 events
First PyData SG meetup will
happen on January 15, 2015 from 7 to 9:30pm at Spire
Global, Red Dot Traffic building (#04-07, 28 Maxwell Rd,
map).
Five talks (10-20 min each) are already lined up:
- Thia Kai Xin: Optimization models (nbviewer)
- Martin Andrews: Theano (& GPUs) (slides)
- Asankhaya Sharma: Software ...
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Sep 2014 meetup
[postfactum]
An irregular† user meeting was held on September 4th, 7:30-9pm at
HSG as usual.
Björn talked about Reusable Django Apps among other
things (slides).
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† Thanks to PayPal for pizza and beers. Hopefully this irregularity
will become part of our regular user meetings...
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July 2014 events
PyLadies SG are
organizing "Introduction to Python" tutorial on July 26th, 1-4pm at
HSG.
Next regular PUGS meeting will be held on July 31th, 7-9pm at
HSG.
Talks:
- New stuff in IPython notebook: widgets
and alternative visualization by Ivan (src,
html)
- Data mining, NLP and graph analysis with
pattern by ...
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Feb 2014 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on February 19th, 7:30-9pm at the
hackerspace.sg.
We'll have Martijn Faassen presenting on
MorePath micro web framework.
"Morepath is an Python WSGI microframework. It uses routing, but the routing
is to models. Morepath is model-driven and flexible, which makes it
expressive ...
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Dec 2013 meetup
Next user meeting will be held on December 18th, 7-9pm at the new
hackerspace.sg.
On the menu:
- DevOps with Python (ansible) by Rahul
- Building interactive web based data visualizations on large
datasets without writing any javascript! (bokeh) by Hugo
Videos (thanks to Mike)
- Rahul's talk
- Hugo's talk
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