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Charlottesville Data Science is a community for data scientists, AI engineers, machine learning practitioners, and all professionals, students, researchers, and enthusiasts working with data in Charlottesville and Central Virginia. Charlottesville is a growing data and technology hub, with the University of Virginia, including the UVA School of Data Science, established companies like S&P Global, Elder Research, and GA-Intelligence, and a dynamic ecosystem of homegrown startups. Let's connect these dots to share ideas, learn from each other, and grow the local tech community.
Our members include researchers and tech professionals with decades of experience, novices who have yet to write their first line of code, and everyone in between. If you're interested in learning more about cutting-edge work happening with data science, AI, machine learning, and related technologies in Charlottesville, you're in the right place, and you'll find a welcoming, supportive community of like-minded folks.
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PyData & PyCon Yerevan 2026
Location not specified yet584 attendees from 112 groups๐ข ๐ฃ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ & ๐ฃ๐๐๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ
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๐ Yerevan
๐ July 24 - 25, 2026Now in its second edition, PyData & PyCon Yerevan 2026 brings PyData and PyCon together to gather the local and global data, research, and Python community in Yerevan.
Led by the American University of Armenia and the AUA Akian College of Science and Engineering, the conference creates a shared space for learning, exchange, and collaboration.
Days full of talks, discussions, and people from different backgrounds in one place.๐ ๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ https://pycon.am/
๐๐ฏ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด: ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ@๐ฑ๐บ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ข.๐ฐ๐ณ๐จhttps://www.meetup.com/pydata-yerevan/events/314378875/
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From Still Photos to 3D Scene: An Introduction to Neural Radiance Fields
Vault Virginia, 300 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA, USโPlease join Charlottesville Data Science for the talk From Still Photos to 3D Scene: An Introduction to Neural Radiance Fields. Alison Lu, a data scientist at ENSCO Rail, will explore this breakthrough in computer vision and discuss its applications in industry settings.
โWe'll be gathering in person at Vault Virginia on the evening of Tuesday, August 4. We look forward to seeing you there!
โ We're moving our events calendar to Luma! We'll continue cross-posting our events here on Meetup for the foreseeable future, but we'll use Luma for planning and all event-related communications. Please head over there to RSVP, and consider subscribing to our Luma calendar! โ
About the talk
โWhat if you could create a 3D, 360-degree scene out of a couple dozen pictures? Traditional methods of doing so may need expensive equipment, hundreds of overlapping photos, and precise location data. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), first introduced in 2020, are a breakthrough in machine vision, allowing a trained network to create a photorealistic scene on relatively small amounts of data. There is a growing set of applications for NeRF, from digital VFX to medical imaging.
โIn this talk, we will go into depth on what NeRF is and how it works, as well as a genealogy of improvements and related techniques from leaders in the field. There will be a demo on how to create scenes and a discussion on adaptations to the transportation industry.About the speaker
โAlison Lu is a data scientist working at ENSCO Rail, a company that provides integrated technology products for railroads. She has been a part of the Charlottesville Data Science Community since 2023.
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