2025 Oct 2nd – UQ PUG 22

Welcome to UQ Python User Group! Check out our general info for how we work and what we do. Below you’ll find the details of this month’s gathering.

Overview

Welcome to the October UQ PUG! This month we discussed geopandas, a Python package for managing geospatial data. See their

As well as this helpful list of Python module (nick)naming conventions.

Structure

  1. We start today by adding our names to the table below
  2. Add your questions to this page
  3. This month’s presentation
  4. Finally, we spend the rest of the session answering the questions you’ve brought!

Teams

If you’d like to receive regular updates and post questions during the month, join our Teams channel!

How to use this document

This is a Jupyter Notebook, a document format where everything is separated into cells. Each cell contains either markdown, or python.

  • The markdown cells allow you to write formatted text
  • The python cells allow you to write AND run python

A few tips

  • Double click on a cell to edit it
  • CTRL + ENTER to run a cell
  • Press + Code or + Markdown in the top menu to create new cells. Alternatively, press the buttons between cells

Training Resources

We offer Python training sessions and resources, you can find our introductory guide here.

Introduce yourself

What’s your name? Where are you from? Why are you here?
Steph Library Here to help and learn!
Nick Library Here to help and learn!
Prince SBMS Completing PhD in cancer biology
Ruly Chemical Engineering .

Questions

If you have any Python questions you’d like to explore with the group, please put your question and name in the sections below.

If you think you can help, feel free to contribute to the answers section!

Question 1: GenX and Julia

We discussed using the GenX, Julia package. Julia is a relatively new and increasingly popular Python-like language due to its performance capabilities.