InnoIT Consulting is delighted to invite you to our meetup with Python Barcelona (PyBCN) next Thursday, November 28th at 18:30h.

SUMMARY

The speaker will be Oriol Porta (Generative AI Engineer) and Mauricio Volcanes (Business Intelligence Specialist).

Genetic Algorithms and Clustering for Optimal Solution Search (by Oriol Porta)

The concept of genetic algorithms is explained. These algorithms generate populations of solutions, evaluate their performance, select the best ones, and combine them to improve. They are effective in finding solutions to complex problems through an iterative process of selection, crossover, and mutation.

From hours to seconds: How NVIDIA RAPIDS is Revolutionizing Big Data Processing (by Mauricio Volcanes)

This talk explores the benefits of NVIDIA RAPIDS, a GPU-accelerated data science framework, compared to traditional CPU-based libraries like Pandas. By benchmarking performance on real-world datasets, we uncover the conditions where RAPIDS excels and demonstrate its potential for accelerating large-scale data workflows. Attendees will learn practical strategies for optimizing workflows, understanding performance trade-offs, and leveraging dataset scaling. The session requires a basic understanding of Python, familiarity with data processing tools like Pandas, and access to a system with a GPU or a Google Collab account.

With time for a dynamic Q&A session and, of course, our networking with food 🍕 and drink 🍻.