We are so appreciative of the time spent this past week to make an impact and "truly make all women, non-binary and transgender people from every country, culture and racial background around the globe count." @theglobalcount#nonprofit#datascience#equalityanddiversity
Hello Data for good - WR family,
We would truly not be where we are without you all. 2021 has been a fascinating year with lots of successful events and datathons, thanks to all of you..
Looking forward to have another exciting year together!!!
Happy New Year everyone ✨✨✨
Help @NASA build a model for astronauts!
@Topcoder and @NASA run a data science competition for predicting the cognitive state of astronauts
The results will be used for training astronauts as well as for real-time life support during launches
👉 bit.ly/DataTalksxTopcoder
Hello data-do-gooders!
The Data for Good - Waterloo Region chapter is hosting an event to explore the Census data(Statistics Canada) tomorrow, December 9th at 7pm.
Please submit the form to complete the mandatory registration,
lnkd.in/etZCtADQ#dataforgoodWR
Announcement 📢📢📢
Hey Twitter fam,
Come join us on Thursday, December 9th,2021 7pm to explore the depth and breadth of census data available at Statistics Canada!!
MANDATORY REGISTRATION FORM: lnkd.in/etZCtADQ#dataforgood#dataforgoodwr#ngo#notforprofit
Here is what we will cover,
- What is a census?
- How can we use census data for non-profit?
- Other survey data that exists
- How to extract data via API in python/ R?
Speaker Announced: Paul Laffin with the Statistical Information Service, Central Region at Statistics Canada
Speaker Bio: Paul Laffin is a Consulting-Analyst with the Statistical Information Service, Central Region at Statistics Canada.
Meet one of our *winners*, Farhad Kerimov, PhD, from our latest datathon: "The fact that the findings from the datathon might have a meaningful impact on our community strongly motivated me to do my best. "
Join Data for Good - Waterloo Region our first ‘Social Media Datathon,’ as we investigate the impact of Twitter on local non-profits around the KW region.
Registration information and details can be found here: meetup.com/Data-for-Good-WR/…#socialgood#datascience#waterlooregion
IBM has a Machine Learning for Kids activity pack (for free!), to get kids more familiar with #machinelearning and learn more about the IBM cloud. It's targeted towards 6-19 year olds, but I'm sure it's interesting to the kid in all of us! ibm.org/activities/machine-l…#machinelearning
Have you ever come across a correlation coefficient really close to 1 and thought to yourself that this must be that coveted near-perfect find!
Spurious correlations exist!
lnkd.in/dP2FT2S#correlation#datascience#justforfun
Are you interested in ramping up your data science portfolio? Coursera has free data science courses available at all levels to ensure you keep learning and keep growing! lnkd.in/gC2Sc2YF H/T to Aqsa Z. for curating this well organized list! #foreverlearning#coursera
Marketing & Data Science your thing? There's an upcoming Python package called "easy-ht" which works through a lot of stats tests for you. It's still in development, but pretty exciting to see where the marketing industry might be going! #Pythonalod83.altervista.org/hypoth…