PyLadies Dublin Oct Talks: Fraud detection with ML / Maker Project with CircuitPython / JupyterNotebook to Production
Tags: video, python, machinelearning, circuitpython
Published: 2020-10-21 13:39:52

I'd like to thank all those who attended our [meetup](https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/273341874/) this month, and watching our videos, we appreciate your support as it took a lot of work to set it up, if you are curious, you can read Vicky's post about it: 
{% link https://dev.to/pyladiesdub/live-streaming-from-zoom-meet-via-obs-to-youtube-2l3h %}
Any feedback would be helpful to make this process smoother and easier to manage. 🥰

This month, we are delighted to have Nabanita Roy and Lais Carvalho speaking this month along with myself. 🙌

A big thanks to Manning Publications who one of our community sponsors this month. They have offered 3 books to be raffled on the night of the event. [Machine Learning Bookcamp by Alexey Grigorev](https://www.manning.com/books/machine-learning-bookcamp).

And for those who want to get their hands on books from Manning, they offer a 35% discount. Use code **mtppyladies20** (Valid for 4 months starting Mon Oct 19 2020) and visit http://mng.bz/P1gP.

A shout out to another of our community sponsors, [Dublin Maker](https://dublinmaker.ie), we have been using their zoom for our talks each month. 

🏆 Winners were picked live after the talks, congrats to:

* Joan Sweeney
* Elena Nicola
* Ajinkya Sakhare

This was our first time doing a raffle in a virtual event, we asked people to pop a "me" in the chat if they wish to be in the raffle. My co-organiser, Lei, helped gather the names.

I began the meetup with announcements, you can find them here: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/r1TwojBnTwa8PCAc8hdjKDmz/embed/

# Back to the talks...

## SCHEDULE (*approx)
<table>
<tr>
<td>18:30 - 18:35</td>
<td>Event Starts / Settle down with cup of tea/coffee</td>

<tr>
<td>18:35 - 18:45 </td>
<td>Welcome & Announcements by Vicky</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>18:45 - 19:00 </td>
<td>An Introduction to Fraud Detection using Machine Learning by Nabanita Roy</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>19:00 - 19:10 </td>
<td>My On Air Sign with CircuitPython and Pi Zero by Vicky Twomey-Lee</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>19:10 - 19:20 </td>
<td>From Jupyter to production-code, an easy conversion path by Lais Carvalho</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>19:20 - 19:30 </td>
<td>Raffle</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>19:30 </td>
<td>Event ends</td>
</tr>
</table>


### An Introduction to Fraud Detection using Machine Learning by Nabanita Roy

(15 mins) Fraud detection is an interesting use-case of machine learning where the machine is trained to detect patterns in fraudulent transactions and sieve them out. In this talk, I would discuss the different ways this has been achieved in the finance industry and combat fraud.

#### About Nabanita Roy
I am a Data Scientist at Fiserv. I completed my Masters in Computer Science - Intelligent Systems from Trinity College Dublin in 2018. Prior to that, I worked as a Systems Engineer at Infosys Limited. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabanita-roy/

### My On Air Sign with CircuitPython and Pi Zero by Vicky Twomey-Lee

(10 mins) With all the streaming, interviews with people for podcasts, why not make an On Air sign. Made with Pimoroni's Ubercorn, Pi Zero and CircuitPython, Vicky with give a show and tell of her Maker project.

#### About Vicky Twomey-Lee
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### From Jupyter to production-code, an easy conversion path by Lais Carvalho

(10 mins) Jupyter notebooks are great for EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis). The issue starts when one needs to convert those functions to production-code. Scripts quickly get messy and reproducibly stops being an easy achievable thing. In this LT I will show you how to start your EDA with Kedro and how easy it is to convert it all to nodes with an easy-frictionless conversion.

#### About Lais Carvalho
Developer advocate, IT student and Python enthusiast, I love data and all it can do. http://github.com/laisbsc/
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# Finally
### 📢 CALL FOR SPEAKERS 
Interested in speaking at our upcoming meetups, please submit talk details to: https://pyladiesdublin.typeform.com/to/VvW3iME6

If you have referrals of speakers you want us to invite, let us know also, being a virtual event helps close the boundaries of inviting speakers further afield than Ireland. 😊

### 🤔 QUESTIONS
Email dublin@pyladies.com

# Our next Meetup
* **When:** Tuesday November 17 (18:30 - 19:30)
* **RSVP & Dets:** https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/273587794

It's our final PyLadies Dublin meetup of 2020 next month, so hope to see you all there before we break for the holidays!

So hit subscribe (and don't forget 🔔) on our [PyLadies Dublin Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMunGHeQPceOWhNSqlmYWPg) to find out when our next virtual event is coming next.

We are also on

* https://twitter.com/PyLadiesDub
* https://instagram.com/PyLadiesDub
* https://facebook.com/PyladiesDublin

Enjoy!

/// Vicky