Given at PyConLT 2019, I talk on dirty air analysis in North Macedonia, monitoring relocated Orangutangs with drones and SciPy, improving child-birth with scikit-learn and improving political engagement with R and Python.
Macedonian air quality By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald The “smelly fog” in Skopje Gorjan Jovanovski (when 21) Government open data showed “4* more pollution than Beijing and 20* EU limits” www.theair.app Photo: https://www.facebook.com/ilijoski
Initially a JSON dump 1 mil. People in 1 mo. Visualisation in Parliament Challenged by a Minister Drove Government policy Political debate and change By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Get a public dataset – most people can’t but you can Load it, investigate Make some graphs with matplotlib Can you tell a story? How to start? By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Updating outdated medical results By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald Friedman 1955 Stages of labour by cervix dilation Different drugs, ages, technologies Significant medical decisions based on the result
Check for out-dated assumptions Gather data & visualise Produce simple models (if/then models are great!) Build up iteratively as you gain trust How to start? By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Dirk Gorissen – track 6 Orangutangs in 2000 km^2 of Bornean jungle Radio pings, drones and signal processing Where’s Bunga the Orangutang By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Sw Defined Radio, Python processing Automated flight paths SEE VIDEO Success on second round! Where’s Bunga the Orangutang By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald https://dirkgorissen.com/2019/01/06/wheres-pinoh-tracking-orangutans-with-drones-and-gnu-radio/
Automate a manual process Note – drones are complex, don’t start here! Collect data, analyse, visualise signal, make decisions How to start? By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Hackathon Can we get more people registered to vote? Using only open data and adwords Thanks Alex, Emiliano, Harry, John, Laurens, Nick Improving political engagement By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Jupyter Notebooks and open data Can we challenge a Guardian news article and fix it? Thanks to Tom Forth @thomasforth Short demo By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
Tell useful data stories Where’s PyData Vilnius? Start it? Thank your organisers & speakers! Send me a postcard if I taught you something? Summary By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald