Tobie is a registered professional electrical engineer with more than 14 years’ experience in the power delivery business and related industries.
After a successful career in sub-transmission network planning at Eskom, Tobie became a key member of the Eskom Integrated Demand Side Management (IDM) programme. During his time at IDM Tobie managed the establishment of the Measurement and Verification function and later took ownership of implementing large scale energy and demand savings projects in the industrial sector.
Currently in his role as Principal Consultant, Tobie is responsible for the management of the Business Analytics and Decision support Division at EON and the implementation of various client projects in the utility and infrastructure development environment.
Accepted Talks:
IPython Notebook
Abstract
The IPython Notebook is a browser-based interactive computational environment in which you can combine code execution, text, mathematics, plots and rich media into a single document. Notebooks are text files that can be shared with colleagues, converted to other formats such as HTML, PDF, etc.
Talk Contents
The talk will be presented using the IPython Notebook in presentation mode and aim to introduce these tools and explore some practical interactive examples. Some of the topics covered in the talk are listed below:
- IPython Notebook basics - installation, getting up and running
- Notebook magic commands
- Using inline Markdown
- Creating inline plots
- Creating interactive plots - how to interact with data and have real-time updates
- Symbolic mathematics and Typesetting
- Customising your IPython Notebook
- A quick intro to Pandas and the Pandas Dataframe. An R like data.frame for Python
- Quick Machine Learning example
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