Hugh

⚡️ Lightning: Mapping the International PyData Community featuring Web Scraping and Data Wrangling - @hevansdev.bsky.social

Hugh loves maps! But Meetup’s map of PyData events is not great.

So he made a better one: circle size for group and green for newly scheduled meet-ups.

Playing Cairn on the steam deck made my palms sweat so bad I considered using climbing chalk irl

A while back I was at PyCon Finland #pyconfi and met some great people in the #Python community. Do you want to know what they think about Python 3.14 and #AI? Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/iE2J1...

Cabury's used to be better 😔

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PyData London - 104rd Meetup, Tue, Feb 3, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup **Venue:** Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD **Please note:** 1\. 🚨🚨🚨 A valid photo ID is required by building security\. 🚨🚨🚨 2\. This event follows the [Nu

Will be speaking about this at PyData London next week: meetu.ps/e/PP3px/11Tj...

PyData Maps Based on data scraped from www.meetup.com/pro/pydata/, last updated 26/01/2026. Standard map Plain markers for each PyData and PyData affiliated group, location of groups more accurate than the version on Meetup.com otherwise unchanged. Custom map visualising group activity This map is designed to make

hughevans.dev/pydata-maps/

Not sure that more data is strictly better but now it's easier to see active vs inactive communities. Also note the feldgling Hull group vs larger more active groups like Southampton

Making an improved version of the PyData communities map  📊

Immeaditely it's easy to spot fledgling froups like Hull, and large refularly active groups like London, Southamption, Cardif etc

Although that said the cooridnates for cities actually being correct on mine does feel like a distinct improvement. I also set the marker size to be the log of total members, set groups with upcoming events to green, and made groups fainter the longer it has been since their last event

Not sure my attempt (right) is all that much better for having more layers of data than the on from Meetup (left) but is much more useful for my purposes of identifying active PyData UK groups.

~12 active ish communities, dangerously close to being possible 🤔

The invasive thought of "is it possible to speak at / attend every PyData group in the UK in a single year?" leading to an excersise in mapping active PyData communities in the UK, aggregating CFPs, and keeping track of when and where they're hosting events.

📣 Attention all Aspiring Speakers!

Applications are still open for the Devoxx UK Aspiring Speakers slot, taking place in London in May. It's an opportunity to take to the stage for a short talk. Mentorship is provided.

Submit your talk ideas 👉 : forms.gle/eQWm57hvX2Jf...

The RSPB big garden birdwatch starts tomorrow: spend an hour counting birds you can see from your garden, window, park etc between the 23rd-25th to be a part of this awesome citizen science project. There's still time to sign up 👇

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Mixing colours is hard but I'm having fun :)

Finishing up yesterdays project: a lightbox for tracing

'Vape Fear'

✨ Design Museum ✨

*nervous laughter*

I have total faith in you figuring out arcane graphics card issues 🙏

Unbelievably unfortunate after your conversation before PyData 😅 got my fingers crossed that your GPU shakes out ok

Working on historical data capture and analysis at the moment for a v2 talk and hopefully implementing a better taring calibration system, watch thsis space.

Got the bird feeder back up and running and was not dissapointed

Having dreams about the Ice Cream machine at Fresha 😂

"ooo a bird.... Ooo a bird.... Ooo a bird... What was I doing?"