This month we thought we would take a break from our usual episode format and have ourselves as the guests. Listen to us reflect on our year volunteering with PyDataMCR. We talk about what we did this year, including Google Next! We also talk a little about learning to rank. We realise this is an insider view, so this months meetup will be an open retro so have a think about what you want from next year.

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Sponsors

LadBible - ladbible.com/

Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/

Horsefly Analytics - horseflyanalytics.com/

Our Collaborators: HER+data - meetup.com/HER-Data-MCR/

Pyladies - twitter.com/pyladiesnwuk

Django Girls - djangogirls.org/

Python NW - meetup.com/Python-North-West-Meetup/

Open Data Manchester - opendatamanchester.org.uk/

Lambda Lounge - http://lambdalounge.org.uk/

What we’ve done this year… hacktoberfest - hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

blog posts - tinyurl.com/tnkzafr

tinyurl.com/urn8twp

tinyurl.com/too86wj

Learning to rank resources

• Reinforcement Learning to Rank with Markov Decision Process- http://bigdatalab.ac.cn/~junxu/publications/SIGIR2017_RL_L2R.pdf
• Reinforcement Learning to Rank in E-Commerce Search Engine: Formalization, Analysis, and Application arxiv.org/abs/1803.00710 medium.com/@alitech_2017/unlocking-insights-from-multi-round-searches-with-reinforcement-learning-74f7143acf08 youtube.com/watch?v=AXa3CW68xks

Matt Crooks Medium: Louvain clustering - medium.com/@DrMattCrooks

Google NEXT Google NEXT - cloud.withgoogle.com/next/uk/

Cloud Build - cloud.google.com/cloud-build/

Cloud Run - cloud.google.com/run/

Trifactor - trifacta.com

Cloud Dataprep by Trifactor - cloud.google.com/run/

Tool Great Expectations - github.com/great-expectations/great_expectations

Social Meetup - meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Slack - http://bit.ly/35KGOgR

Twitter - @PyDataMCR