Renee Noble
Renee Noble spends her time bringing together tech, teaching, and community in as many ways as possible.
As a Cloud Developer Advocate on the Python Advocacy team at Microsoft, she spends her time teaching the community through global events, creating Python learning resources, and local workshops for students and professionals. Renee is also the CEO and Co-Founder or Tech Inclusion, best known for Girls’ Programming Network workshops that run around Australia. On top of this, Renee started her own Business, ConnectEd Code, bringing tech education opportunities to schools
Well known for her work in tech education and the advancement of women, Renee was most recently awarded as Champion of Change 2025 by Women Leading Tech.
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Shock horror! Banana, the beloved science class Python has been released! But how? And more importantly... who did it? The clues are hidden in a collection of spreadsheets, but we’ll need something a little more powerful than VLOOKUP to solve this slippery case.
Using Python in Excel (or Jupyter notebooks if you prefer!) will help us close the book on the tale of the missing snake while sneaking in real-world coding, logic, and data wrangling. Learn about the mystery I’ve crafted and how you can get your own students coding with this (or your own) data adventure!
Free form data entry is a realm that is simply begging for data that you’ll never be able to crossmatch. Whether it’s typos, using obscure initialisations, or deciding that “name” sometimes means “full name” and sometimes means “nickname of the day” your data is never going to be a perfect match. And let me tell you, those problems are multiplied if some of that data is entered by children!
I’ll take you through the techniques from edit distance to generative AI (and combinations thereof) I have used to match up proper nouns ranging from people’s names to schools and see how some techniques work for people and not for places, and vice versa. I’ll show you how it is working in practice to help track event participants over the course of a single workshop day and ultimately over the course of their journey through our community.