Thanks

🌈 COMMUNITY PARTNERS'

Thank you to the following partners:

**Coding Grace:** Zoom
Imagi: Visit imagilabs.com and use discount code: CODINGGRACE15
Optum: Speakers and prizes (Chromecast and Google Assistant)

❤️ Co-Hosts

A huge thanks to Lei and Mick co-organising and co-hosting PyLadies Dublin with me every month.

Lei Shao - https://twitter.com/lei_shao1
Mick Twomey - https://twitter.com/micktwomey

Main event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCpCBuIzGLY

TALK 1: Text Classification using HuggingFace Transformers

Explanation about HuggingFace Transformers, described in 2 sections. Theory: What it is? and How to use it? datasets and tasks that you can perform with it. Practice: Example using Text Classification using HFT

ABOUT OLGA: Olga Minguett is a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence student with interest in AI in Healthcare. She currently works as a data scientist for a technology and healthcare services company part of UnitedHealth Group.

https://Linkedin.com/in/olgaminguett

<aside> ℹ️ 🔖 Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pyladiesdublin/pyladies-dublin-aug-meetup-text-classification-using-huggingface-transformers 📒 Hugging Face Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/master/transformers_doc/task_summary.ipynb 📒 Sentiment analysis Notebook, the original as well: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1PHv-IRLPCtv7oTcIGbsgZHqrB5LPvB7S

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TALK 2: PySpark 101: Tips and Tricks

In this session, I'd like to share a few tips and tricks that I've learnt over the years while using PySpark in my day-to-day activities by showing code snippets. These elements will help you create more efficient code that leads to better/faster results.