Newsletter: Jan 2021
Announcements
We are looking for volunteers to edit / clean up transcripts for our YouTube library. Contributing Instructions are available on GitHub. For more information, email data.umbrella.dei@gmail.com
Melissa Weber: Intro to Sphinx for Python Documentation
Andreas Mueller on Twitter: Sphinx is used for the documentation in many (if not most) Python libraries. Knowing sphinx is a great enabler to contribute to all of them and improve documentation!
Scikit-learn Open Source Sprint
We have organized an open source sprint for Saturday, 06-Feb-2021, with a focus on Africa and Middle East regions. A sprint is a 4-hour online hackathon where data scientists / developers will work with a pair programming partner on a beginner-friendly issue in the scikit-learn repo. Some knowledge of python, scikit-learn and machine learning is required. This sprint is an excellent opportunity to increase machine learning and python skills, get mentorship from core developers of the library and get started in contributing to open source.
Full details are available here: https://afme2021.dataumbrella.org
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Coiled (Remote)
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Global Diversity CFP Day
On Saturday, February 20, 2021 we will host the fourth edition of global diversity CFP day - this time online!
There will be 6 streams around the globe encouraging and advising newbie speakers to put together your very first talk proposal and share your own individual perspective on any subject of interest to people in tech.
Each stream will have expert speakers sharing their experience of:
putting together a talk proposal
creating that all important biography
planning and structuring your talk
delivering your talk
and a load more tips and advice!
Matti Picus: Getting Involved with NumPy
Marco Gorelli: Contributing to Pandas
Nick Janetakis: Command Line Focused Development Environment
Featured Resources: Playlists
Connect with Us
dataumbrella.org (*resources*)
Meetup: Data Umbrella & Data Umbrella Africa (*upcoming events*)
YouTube (*past recorded talks*)
Twitter: @DataUmbrella & @DataUmbrellaAFR