Data Umbrella Newsletter: October 2021
A community for underrepresented persons in data science.
Announcements
Please read on for upcoming events, past event recordings and resources.
Data Umbrella has a new blog website! It is blog.dataumbrella.org. Check out the blogs written by our community members on their experience in recent sprints.
We have a Job Board. You can: post jobs, search jobs, subscribe to a weekly update to see postings.
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Community Blogs
Data Umbrella LATAM 2021 Sprint - My Experience with Open Source
Tracking Impact and Measuring Success in Data Education Events
Upcoming Events
[Live Webinar] Intro to Unit Testing and Continuous Integration (Oct 20)
Having unit tests and continuous integration (CI) as part of your development are considered best practices. But how do these things work? In this talk, we will cover the benefits of writing unit tests and how to get started with it in Python. Then, we'll step it up running tests as part CI. And that's not all! CI is not just about running tests, but for other things as well, like code quality checks, and even building and generating documentation. Mariatta Wijaya, a core developer for the Python language, will be presenting.
[Live Webinar] Lux: Visualizing Your Pandas Dataframe with Zero Effort (Nov 18)
In this talk, you will learn about Lux, a lightweight visualization tool on top of Pandas dataframes. Lux recommends visualizations for free to users as they explore their data within a Jupyter notebook without the need to write additional code. For more information, see: github.com/lux-org/lux
Recent Events: Subscribe to Data Umbrella YouTube
Andreas Mueller: Taking the Edge Off of Data Science with dabl
Rami Krispin: COVID-19 R Dashboard in Production
Coonoor Behal: When Quitting is Good
Featured Resources
Video Playlists
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Animating Visualizations in Python with Plotly
Community Events
Women of MENA in Technology (Nov 4-5, 2021)
We’re excited to be part of Women Of MENA In Technology’s 2021 (Virtual) Annual conference, Accelerate MENA as a Community Partner. Get the opportunity to join the discussions, engage around various topics, and network with a global audience of entrepreneurs, startups, & investors.
We have 50 VIP passes, grab your VIP ticket using this link. This event is open to all genders.
#AccelerateMENA #WoMENAIT
Connect with Us
dataumbrella.org (*resources*)
Meetup: Data Umbrella & Data Umbrella Africa (*upcoming events*)
YouTube (*past recorded talks*)
Twitter: @DataUmbrella