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A day for marginalized genders / sexes to gather for civic hacking and training in a supportive environment (formerly Tech Lady Hackathon)

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3 Mar 2021
It's here!✨Registration is open for the 8th Annual @tech_rebalanced! Join us for TWO Saturdays filled with community, collaboration, and fun!!✨ eventbrite.com/e/tech-rebala…
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It's a wrap! ✨✨✨✨ #TechRebalanced Virtual edition. We can't wait to see you all in-person soon 🌻🌸🌺
a screengrab of the Zoom room of people!

ALT a screengrab of the Zoom room of people!
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Our final session w. @kara_h, "Introduction to Information Security/Cyber Security"
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"Every field benefits from having different voices"- @kara_h
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Helpful resources: - queercon.org/ - and on Youtube: Hak5, Null Byte, DEFCONConference
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First up after the break, we have @AfroDevGirl leading us though “Accessibility in Web Applications” It’s not just the front end but we should be looking at full-stack accessibility.
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Thank you Alexis for bringing us into the mindset of an engineer PLUS showing us a live demo 🖥️🖲️⌨️ #a11y #FullStackAccessability
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Documentation here! github.com/afrodevgirl/full-…

GitHub - AfroDevGirl/full-stack-accessibility: An example application for full stack accessibility

An example application for full stack accessibility - AfroDevGirl/full-stack-accessibility

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Next up we are hearing from Valentina Subow on “Visualizing data in Python using plotnine” 💻🔬👩‍🏫 Starting with an overview of rare disease and orphan drug development data followed by a live notebook demo!
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First tech session of the day: “Publicly Available Microdata: Why It's Useful and How to Use It in R” github.com/hcbrown/TR_ACSexe…

GitHub - hcbrown/TR_ACSexercise: Manipulating and summarizing a subset of the 2019 ACS 1-Year PUMS

Manipulating and summarizing a subset of the 2019 ACS 1-Year PUMS - hcbrown/TR_ACSexercise

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@hayleycbbrown started w. a fantastic overview of publicly available datasets followed by a starter tutorial using data from ceprdata.org/

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Thank you Hayley for a great workshop! Many of us are walking away with confidence to start our own R project
This morning we hosted an ad hoc sessions on the good/bad/ugly of the job market. 💾🖱️📀 A few resources and ideas: - @DiversifyTechCo - Recurse.com - @lesbiantech - Tech worker driven recruiting efforts over top-down recruiting - hirethisdev.com/jobboards

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Starting our first break this morning with some @Spotify 🎶👩‍🎤💃🕺: open.spotify.com/playlist/3J… open.spotify.com/show/1dWydH…

FUTURISM: Tech, Rebalanced 2019

Playlist · Rekha Tenjarla · 25 items · 3 saves

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And we saved the best for last on day one! In “how to break into tech/civic tech” we heard from three amazing panelists @nmbudz @allenderlaura and Sarah Berlin ✨
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"Bringing the strengths of a tech background to the nonprofit sphere is very possible, but requires a shift in thinking" - Sarah Berlin
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“If you're in tech, you're always going to be restarting and learning” - @allenderlaura
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Happy Tech, Rebalanced day, Part 2!!! 🌸✨💕🌺🌻😊 starting at 9am ET this morning. Today our speakers will cover Golang, R, Python, accessibility and cyber security.
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💙💙💙💙 See you all for Tech, Rebalanced Day 2 TOMORROW (Saturday) starting at 9a ET!! (photo: some of the T,r leadership team wearing T,R masks outside in DC) RSVP if you haven't already! 💜💜💜💜
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