Data Umbrella Newsletter: December 2021
A community for underrepresented persons in data science.
Announcements
Supporting Data Umbrella: Giving Tuesday
Data Umbrella is now on Benevity. If your company uses Benevity, which is a donation platform for employer-matching contributions to non-profits, please consider making a contribution to Data Umbrella. Note: this link is active for registered users of Benevity: Data Umbrella on Benevity
For users not on Benevity, donations can be made directly to the Open Collective.
Giving Tuesday is on November 30, 2021.
GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Join the movement and give a donation, or the power of your voice in your local community.
Call for Speakers
We are looking for speakers on the following topics. If you or someone you know can speak on these topics, please email us: info@dataumbrella.org
Open Source Literacy (history, challenges, education or other related topics)
Creating a Blog Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages
How to Debug in Python
How to Use GitHub Actions(** we found a speaker! ** talk coming soon)
Call for Volunteers: Social Media
We are looking for a volunteer to assist us with social media.
Some information on the position:
• 2 hrs per week
• Buffer social media scheduling
• 6 month position, volunteer
• We will spend a few hours mentoring you to learn the process
Some experience with social media (Twitter, LinkedIn) would be nice to have.
Please email us if you are interested: info@dataumbrella.org
Accessibility Update: Closed Captioning
Our webinars now have closed captioning available! This feature will make 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.
Community Blogs
Data Umbrella Africa & Middle scikit-learn Sprint Report:
Our October 2021 sprint report is now available! Lot of plots and summaries of interest. (Related tweet, LinkedIn post)
40 participants
23/40 (57.5%) Returning contributors; 17/40 (42.5%) New contributors
17 countries represented
My Experience Contributing to Open Source, AFME2 Sprint October 2021 (Beryl Kanali)
Data Umbrella Awarded CZI Grant
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.
Upcoming Events (Live Webinars)
R, an Ecosystem Where Pythonistas Can Thrive
This talk will introduce Python users to the R ecosystem. Attendees should expect that by the end of the talk they will understand how to get started with reporting infrastructure in Python and R; and how to use open standards to share data across data products. As part of the discussion, we will see different use cases for both languages, their integration, and common pitfalls.
Recent Events: Subscribe to Data Umbrella YouTube
Doris Lee: Visualize Your Pandas Dataframe with Zero Effort with Lux
Liz DiLuzio: Excel for Data Analysis
Featured Resources
Video Playlists
Data Umbrella Team
In this section, we share what our team has been doing.
Animating Visualizations in Python With Plotly (PyGotham 2021)
Connect with Us
dataumbrella.org (*resources*)
Meetup: Data Umbrella & Data Umbrella Africa (*upcoming events*)
YouTube (*past recorded talks*)
Twitter: @DataUmbrella