[2023.10] Data Umbrella Newsletter: October 2023
We organize data science events for the community.
Data Umbrella is a non-profit global community for underrepresented persons in data science. We organize online data science events for the community. All levels are welcome. Our Code of Conduct applies to all of our spaces.
Announcements
Milestone Achieved! (Data Umbrella Africa Meetup)
Data Umbrella Africa Meetup group has hit 1000 members!
Blog: Reproducible Publications with Python and Quarto
Check out our latest blog Reproducible Publications with Python and Quarto.
Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that builds on standard markdown with features essential for scientific communication. The system has support for reproducible embedded computations, equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layouts, and more. This blog explores the use of Quarto with Python.
R Project Sprint
The R Project Sprint was hosted at the University of Warwick in August 2023. Beryl Kanali (of the Data Umbrella team), attended along with 40+ other contributors from around the globe.
Beryl and her pair programming partner worked on the issue on “bugs related to vignettes.”
PyGotham (Oct 6-7, 2023) (Online & Free)
PyGotham is a New York City based, eclectic, Py-centric conference covering many topics. There’s a diverse speaker list, and some things which will be quite different.
Reshama Shaikh (of Data Umbrella Team) will be giving a keynote on Community.
Cost: Free
Where: Online
Registration: via Eventbrite
All Things Open (Oct 15-17, 2023) (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
All Things Open is a polyglot technology conference focusing on the tools, processes and people making open source possible. Register here for limited discounted tickets.
NODES 2023 | Register (Oct 24-25, 2023) (free & online)
We are excited to partner with #NODES2023, #Neo4j's ONLINE developer conference! On October 26, join us for 24 hours of free live talks. Don't miss out, sign up today!
Timestamps
We would like to thank Sam Miyamoto for their contributions to Data Umbrella by adding timestamps to our YouTube video An Overview of 3D Image Processing Using scikit-image.
Call for Suggestions
Do you have suggestions for future webinar topics or speakers? Would you like to speak on a topic? For these and any other suggestions, please complete our Online Suggestion Box.
Call for Contributors
There are various ways to get involved in open source and community. Here are some projects, at all different levels. Contact us if you would like to contribute to any of these projects.
Call for Volunteers: Video Timestamps
We are looking for assistance in adding video timestamps.
We have instructions on how you can contribute to this project on GitHub. Help us help the community. Pick a video and get started!
Data Umbrella Impact
Would you like to share an impact that Data Umbrella events and resources have had in your data journey? Send it to us (info@dataumbrella.org), and we will feature it on our Impact Page.
Upcoming Events (free & online webinars)
Exploring the Open Source Landscape in Australia
October 17, 2023
Australia is geographically located far away from Europe and North America where the majority of open source maintainers in the Python and scientific python spaces are located. How does that impact Australia's participation in open source? We will explore this......Our little corner of the world - Open Source landscape and the community that supports it in Australia, with a smidge of GLAM[our].
Recent Events
In case you missed our recent events, the videos have been posted. Subscribe to our Data Umbrella YouTube to receive notifications when the videos premiere.
An Overview of Information Security
This talk defines what information security is, explains why it is important and provides an overview of the information security career landscape.
Debugging in Python: Overview
Your code gives an error. Or worse: it doesn't give an error, but doesn't do what you want. Welcome to the hard part of programming! What to do now?
In this talk we will talk about debugging, which includes a broad set of techniques to identify the root causes of undesired behavior in programs and eventually fix them. We will start with a theoretical introduction of the different types of debugging, we will describe a couple of techniques that you can use, and we will apply them in practice, both in Jupyter Notebook (using its new interactive debugger) and in VSCode.
Debugging in Python: Jupyter Notebook
Your code gives an error. Or worse: it doesn't give an error, but doesn't do what you want. Welcome to the hard part of programming! What to do now?
In this talk we will talk about debugging, which includes a broad set of techniques to identify the root causes of undesired behavior in programs and eventually fix them. We will start with a theoretical introduction of the different types of debugging, we will describe a couple of techniques that you can use, and we will apply them in practice, in Jupyter Notebook (using its new interactive debugger).
Debugging in Python: Visual Studio Code
Your code gives an error. Or worse: it doesn't give an error, but doesn't do what you want. Welcome to the hard part of programming! What to do now?
In this talk we will talk about debugging, which includes a broad set of techniques to identify the root causes of undesired behavior in programs and eventually fix them. We will start with a theoretical introduction of the different types of debugging, we will describe a couple of techniques that you can use, and we will apply them in practice, in VSCode.
Featured Resources
Video Playlists
Data Umbrella Resources
Visit our blog site: blog.dataumbrella.org, and see articles written by our community members on their experience in recent sprints.
We have a Job Board. You can: post jobs (for free), search jobs, subscribe to a weekly update to see postings.
Our Data Umbrella YouTube is growing! Subscribe to our channel to receive notifications of when our event videos are posted.
Accessibility Corner
Accessibility Update: Closed Captioning
Our webinars have closed captioning available! This feature makes our live events more accessible to those with hearing needs and for folks in general who like to see the transcript live during presentation to fully process information.
Connect with Us
dataumbrella.org (*resources*)
Meetup: Data Umbrella & Data Umbrella Africa (*upcoming events*)
YouTube (*past recorded talks*)
Twitter: @DataUmbrella