Python North East
Python user group for folks in and around the North East of the United Kingdom.
Twitter: @PythonNorthEast
Website: https://www.pythonnortheast.com/
Forthcoming Events
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Event History
Wed
12th
Dec
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
The Core
Science Central, Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TF
Try the Xmas Elves live coding game, with Scott Walton.
Tickets & Info
Python North East
iCal
CANCELLED
Wed
14th
Nov
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
The Core
Science Central, Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TF
Jamie Curle explains how Python can help secure businesses and processes.
Wed
10th
Oct
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
The Core
Science Central, Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TF
Tom Merritt-Smith looks at improving classification and introduces the hazyresearch package.
Wed
12th
Sep
(2018)
6pm
- 8am
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
With Tom Cooper.
Wed
8th
Aug
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
An interactive session, taking part in an ongoing card game AI contest.
Wed
11th
Jul
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Dean Coyle will speak about the range of resources, opportunities, and the Cyber Security Challenge UK.
Wed
13th
Jun
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Jamie Curle demonstrates internal tooling to ensure all data is accounted for.
Wed
9th
May
(2018)
6pm
- 9pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Paweł Widera will demonstrate how to write an intelligent bot.
Wed
11th
Apr
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Facial recognition and image searching - talk by Sunny.
Wed
14th
Mar
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Jose Marcelino explores how MicroPython is an increasing core part of the Internet of Things.
Thu
15th
Feb
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Rowan Hargreaves presents Clojure, a dynamic, practical modern Lisp with an emphasis on functional programming using immutable data by default.
Wed
10th
Jan
(2018)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Rowan Hargreaves presents a whirlwind tour of Clojure by comparing and contrasting with Python.
Wed
8th
Nov
(2017)
6pm
- 8am
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Tips and tricks to show the power Jupyter notebook.
Wed
11th
Oct
(2017)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Alex Kavanagh presents.
Wed
13th
Sep
(2017)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Lead by Phil Jeffes.
Wed
9th
Aug
(2017)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Jonathan Alderson talks about using the built-in Python GUI library (Tkinter) to design a computer game. Ben Garside will talk about the transformation of Computer Science education in schools.
Wed
12th
Jul
(2017)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Matthew Cranwell will explore different ways to analyse free text using natural language processing (NLP).
Wed
14th
Jun
(2017)
6pm
- 9pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Francesco Castellani will be show how Python is used in Civil Engineering.
Wed
10th
May
(2017)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Sam Brennan demonstrates how to control cameras using Python.
Wed
12th
Apr
(2017)
5pm
- 7pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Rob McClusky presents the Bokeh and Plotly visualisation libraries.
Wed
8th
Mar
(2017)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Alex Kavanagh will introduce Juju, designed to solve configuration management of software systems and maintaining the life-cycle of big software.
Wed
8th
Feb
(2017)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Chris Wallace gives an intro to machine learning and neural networks.
Wed
11th
Jan
(2017)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Scott Walton be giving a talk on professional Python development and building reliable systems at Pebble.
Wed
14th
Dec
(2016)
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
This talk will cover kwargs, graphing results, simulations, optimisation, markov decision processes, dynamic programming, iterative functions and memoization.
Wed
9th
Nov
(2016)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
"An intro to web development with Python" (Kieran Darcy)
Wed
12th
Oct
(2016)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Phil Jeffes walks through the basics of how to put together a game with PyGame.
Wed
14th
Sep
(2016)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Tom Cooper will give an introduction to the basics of containers. What they can be used for and how Python can automate and build upon them. Using LXD and Docker.
Thu
18th
Aug
(2016)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Learn to program micro:bits with Python
Wed
13th
Jul
(2016)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Rowan Hargreaves discusses options for writing concurrent programs in Python.
Wed
11th
May
(2016)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Dave Jeffery leads the group through implementing a stack-based virtual machine and compiler in Python.
Wed
13th
Apr
(2016)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
A data hacking session using the open data released by Newcastle City Council.
Wed
9th
Mar
(2016)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Rowan Hargreaves will demo a few everyday problems from probability, statistics and applied maths and show how to use Python to solve them.
Wed
10th
Feb
(2016)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Tom Merritt-Smith will be demonstrating how to make the Game of Life using numpy (http://www.numpy.org/), and then using this to do some “databending” on images or audio!
Wed
13th
Jan
(2016)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Fun with the decorators - Alex Kavanagh will lead a tour of what decorators are, how they work, how to write them, and what you might use them for.
Wed
9th
Dec
(2015)
8pm
FREE
Nudo Noodle House
(Please contact the group in advance to book)
Wed
11th
Nov
(2015)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Apache Spark is rapidly becoming the go-to choice for large cluster processing. From log analysis to machine learning, Spark provides a fast and fault tolerant infrastructure for batch and stream processing. Tom Cooper presents.
Wed
14th
Oct
(2015)
6pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Pawel Widera presents a tutorial style introduction to evolutionary algorithms using selection, mutation, reproduction and recombination to solve hard problems. Suitable for all levels.
Wed
9th
Sep
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Scott Walton introduces how Django REST Framework can build your web APIs. Also, Code Dojo.
Wed
12th
Aug
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Chris Wallace tells us about Functional programming in Python - a great paradigm for Python. We'll look at how thinking more functionally can result in code that is clean and clear.
Wed
8th
Jul
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Mike Hibbert will tour his favourite parts of Python.
Wed
13th
May
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Phil Jeffes talks about interacting with Minecraft through Python, plus Code Dojo.
Wed
8th
Apr
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
SQLAlchemy helps you connect to (almost) any SQL database, write queries like the pros in an (almost) database agnostic fashion, and supercharge your development with (almost) all web frameworks* in Python. Alex Kavanagh explains.
Wed
11th
Mar
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Scott Walton will be teaching the basics of Django [part 2 - follow on from February's event]. Existing Python knowledge isn't necessary.
Wed
11th
Feb
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Scott Walton will be teaching the basics of Django by creating a simple Twitter-like website that lets us read and send user messages. Existing Python knowledge isn't necessary. The second part of the tutorial will be in March.
Wed
14th
Jan
(2015)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Starting from the basic concepts Pawe. will teach you how to make pretty graphics with code - complex shapes, colours and interaction. We will also generate art with image composition and agent-based procedural animation.
Wed
10th
Dec
(2014)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Kieran Darcy will give an introduction to Python packages - what they are, how to find them and how to install them. The talk will mention the Python Standard Library, the Python Package Index (PyPi - aka The Cheese Shop), pip and virtual environments.
Wed
13th
Aug
(2014)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Rowan Hargreaves will tell you all about wrangling data with the Python Pandas library.
Wed
7th
May
(2014)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
Marc Kirkwood will be telling the audience about how he has got Django web framework to play nicely with Javascript. Includes complementary pizza.
Wed
9th
Apr
(2014)
6:30pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Campus North
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6UF
This month Alex Kavanagh will describe why he loves test driven development (TDD), and how to go about it in Python. Includes complementary pizza.
Wed
12th
Mar
(2014)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
The idea for this event is to write a Python program that controls an army of robots and destroys the opponent's robots using the robot game library. Includes complementary pizza.
Wed
12th
Feb
(2014)
6pm
- 9pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
Pawe. will take this group through a tutorial on using pygame (a Python library for game development). Includes complementary pizza.
Wed
15th
Jan
(2014)
6pm
- 9pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
This event discusses concurrent programming in Python using gevent. So if you've ever wondered how to get a program to do more than one thing at once then come along.
Thu
12th
Dec
(2013)
6pm
- 9pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
Scott Walton talks Salt - a config management and remote execution system. As usual they will have our code dojo - come armed with fun problems to suggest.
Wed
20th
Nov
(2013)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
Jamie Curle will introduce Jenkins - a continuous build / test / integration / monitoring tool. Also the usual code dojo - come armed with problems to suggest!
Thu
17th
Oct
(2013)
6pm
- 8:30pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
Dave will give the low down on resources for newbies learning Python and there might be a report back on something from PyCon UK (TBC).
Thu
12th
Sep
(2013)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
To ease themselves into things they are going to run a Code Dojo. This is suitable for everyone from beginners to crusty old hands are welcome.
Thu
13th
Jun
(2013)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
The group will choose a simple coding task and split off into teams. After a while, each group presents what they have [almost] produced to the meeting as a whole.
Tue
12th
Feb
(2013)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
Clavering House
Clavering Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3NG
Python enthusiasts converge to help each other learn, share knowledge and promote its use. This month has a presentation by Rowan Hargreves about Python's use in science.
Tue
11th
Dec
(2012)
6pm
- 8pm
FREE
PostOfficeNE1
Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne
Python enthusiasts converge to help each other learn, share knowledge and promote its use. This month has a presentation by Jamie Curle about setting up a blog and includes free pizza.