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Stories From the Workshop

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When we made Anvil, for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python, we were surprised by what awesome and varied people were using it. So we started recording conversations with them - from startup founders to data scientists. We call them Stories From the Workshop.

When we made Anvil, for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python, we were surprised by what awesome and varied people were using it. So we started recording conversations with them - from startup founders to data scientists. We call them Stories From the Workshop.

Location:

United Kingdom

Description:

When we made Anvil, for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python, we were surprised by what awesome and varied people were using it. So we started recording conversations with them - from startup founders to data scientists. We call them Stories From the Workshop.

Twitter:

@anvil_works

Language:

English

Episodes

Fighting for Consumer Rights

8/11/2020
Since 2011, it's been harder for consumers in the US to pursue big companies for compensation when things go wrong. Meredydd spoke to Teel and Brian from FairShake about how their consumer rights service is levelling the playing field between everyday people and big companies. And how Anvil helps them to move faster!

Duration:01:14:39

Hunting the Coronavirus

6/30/2020
The Australian public health system is on red alert. Meredydd spoke to Anders, from Melbourne's MDU Public Health Lab, about how they detect, track and share information about outbreaks: They're smashing up DNA, doing ancestry tests on viruses, and -- of course -- writing plenty of Python.

Duration:00:39:54

Mongolian Data Science Adventures

4/28/2020
What can data science do for Mongolia? Robert Ritz moved from Texas to Mongolia and started the LETU Mongolia business school. In this special double-length episode, he talks to Meredydd about speech recognition, pollution measurements, and what makes Mongolia different.

Duration:01:15:18

Data Science Goes to School

3/18/2020
Why does a school board need a data scientist? In this episode of the Anvil podcast, Allan Campopiano talks to Meredydd about how his school board uses data -- and how that has changed as the senior leadership saw what was possible.

Duration:00:32:49

Keeping a digital broadcaster on the road

9/2/2019
Meredydd talks to Anders Kalland, who leads the internet broadcast team at Norway's RiksTV network, and Anders tells us about the software he built to diagnose customer problems in real time.

Duration:01:30:19

Colette Nataf, founder of Lightning AI

6/30/2019
Meredydd talks to Colette Nataf, founder of Lightning AI, about her somewhat unorthodox journey to being the technical founder of a Silicon Valley startup.

Duration:00:31:34

David Wylie, founder of Telemix

5/19/2019
In the first episode of a new series, Meredydd talks to David Wylie, founder of Telemix, about the ups, downs, stories and scams of his life in telecoms.

Duration:00:36:45