archipylago #5 - September 2024 at Sofokus

Summer is over and it's time to return to Python meetups.

Our first event of the fall is hosted by Sofokus on Thursday 12.9.2024.

Registration opens on this page Thu 29.8. at 12.00.

We will have two talks of 30 minutes and time for socializing.

18.00 Doors open
18.10 Welcome from Sofokus
18.20 Robert Siipola: "Vector Embeddings: Clustering, Recommendations, and Visualization in Python"
18.50 Break
19.10 Calle Laakkonen: "Building web-APIs with Python"
19.40 Socializing
20.00 Post-meetup discussions at a nearby pub

Talks

Robert Siipola: Vector Embeddings: Clustering, Recommendations, and Visualization in Python

Introduction to Vector Embeddings

• Brief explanation of what vector embeddings are
• Their relationship to large language models
• Why they're useful in data science

Working with Vector Embeddings in Python

• Overview of popular libraries for creating and manipulating embeddings
• Quick demonstration of generating embeddings using OpenAI

Visualizing High-Dimensional Embeddings

• Challenges of visualizing high-dimensional data
• Techniques for dimensionality reduction (PCA, t-SNE, UMAP)
• Live demo: Visualizing word embeddings

Applications: Clustering and Recommendations

• Clustering with vector embeddings
• Brief overview of suitable algorithms for high-dimensional data
• Example: Using K-means to cluster text data based on embeddings
• Building recommendation systems with embeddings
• How embeddings enable content-based recommendations
• Example: TBD

Calle Laakkonen: Building web-APIs with Python

A quick introduction to building REST and GraphQL APIs using different frameworks to suit all occasions, from simple minimalistic utilities to big web applications.