Venables Award

Alex Lee and I are the joint winners of the 2024 Venables Award for new developers of open source software for data analytics! My submission was pypfilt, my Python package that implements various particle filter methods. Alex Lee's submission was whereabouts, a Python package for bulk geocoding and address standardisation.

This award is judged by the Statistical Computing and Visualisation section of the Statistical Society of Australia, and sponsored by the Australian Research Data Commons. Later this year we'll both appear in the ARDC's Shaping Research Software article series, and showcase our software packages in an SSA seminar.

It's a thrilling surprise and genuine honour to win this award. I'm looking forward to sharing thoughts and reflections on pypfilt and research software engineering in general, and in hearing about Alex Lee's work.

My biggest hope is that other people will find pypfilt useful for their own work 🤞🏼