PyData London had its tenth conference in 2024, and it was excellent.

I gave a tutorial on TDDA, and the video is available on YouTube and below:

The slides are also available here.

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I was at the tenth PyData London Conference last weekend, which was excellent, as always. One of the keynote speakers was Rebecca Bilbro who gave a rather brilliant (and cleverly titled) talk called Mistakes Were Made: Data Science 10 Years In.

The title is, of course, a reference to the …

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This is just a bit of fun, but I've always been interested in the different kinds of names allowed, encouraged, and used in different areas of computing and data.

A few years ago, I tweeted some well-known naming styles and a collection of lesser-known naming styles. I was playing about …

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TOMLParams is a new open-source library that helps Python developers to externalize parameters in TOML files. This post will explain why storing parameters in non-code files is beneficial (including for reproducibility), why TOML was chosen, and some of the useful features of the library, which include structured sets of parameters …

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I had the pleasure of discussing TDDA with Peter Schmidt on his Coding for Thought podcast.

I think it came out really well, so this might be a nice way for people to learn about the ideas and motivations for the ideas and the library, which Simon Brown, Sam Rhynas …

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