Spring 2017 Info Session January, 26th 2017, Berger Auditorium.

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Spring 2017 Info Session January, 26th 2017, Berger Auditorium

What is Data Science? Extract insights from data using… Statistics Machine Learning Data Mining Predictive Analytics Data Visualization Probability Models …and more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram

Why Be a Data Scientist? https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-%22Data-Scientist%22.html

Why Be a Data Scientist? https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/data-scientist-salary-SRCH_KO0,14.htm

What PDSG Does Community Events Calendar Resources Page Workshops Career Talks Student Talks Projects

Community Events Calendar Types of events we list: DataPhilly Meetups (meetup.com/DataPhilly) Hackathons Data-related Academic Seminars Career Fairs Company Info Sessions Networking Events Workshops PDSG Events

Community Events Calendar Add to your calendar Get the weekly newsletter penndsg.com/events penndsg.com/join Other events? Send info to: board@penndsg.com

What PDSG Does Community Events Calendar Resources Page Workshops Career Talks Student Talks Projects penndsg.com/resources

What PDSG Does Community Events Calendar Resources Page Workshops Career Talks Student Talks Projects

Predicting Titanic passenger outcomes using Jupyter/iPython Notebook Workshops Hands-on practice with data science tools and techniques Workshop currently in planning: Predicting Titanic passenger outcomes using Jupyter/iPython Notebook Want to lead a workshop? Let us know: board@penndsg.com

What PDSG Does Community Events Calendar Resources Page Workshops Career Talks Student Talks Projects We want to hear from… Data Scientists Data Engineers Data Analysts etc. Send referrals to: board@penndsg.com

What PDSG Does Community Events Calendar Resources Page Workshops Career Talks Student Talks Projects We want to hear about your data-related… Research Internship Experience Side Project To volunteer, email board@penndsg.com

What PDSG Does Community Events Calendar Resources Page Workshops Career Talks Student Talks Projects

Projects No really, why? Why do a project through PDSG? Build your data science portfolio Find like-minded people to work with you Build something you can be proud of Get help from other PDSG members by posting questions on Piazza No really, why?

Project Prizes If you want prizes like $50 Amazon gift cards, here’s what to do: Get a group of 2-4 people Pick a data problem to explore Tell us your team and project idea Write a blog post style report on your project Present your results in front of a panel of judges Have one of the best projects Collect gift cards (1 per team member, excluding board members)

Raffle Prizes At the end of the semester, we’ll raffle off small prizes, like $5 Amazon or Starbucks gift cards. You get 1 raffle ticket for each: Project report put up on the website Student talk you give Data professional referral who ends up giving a career talk 2 raffle tickets if you lead a workshop!

Kaggle Competitions If you don’t know what kind of project to do, do a Kaggle competition Clean datasets Immediate model evaluation Scripts shared by other competitors

Recommended Kaggle Competitions Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster kaggle.com/c/titanic Predict Titanic passenger outcome Digit Recognizer kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer Classify handwritten digits from famous MNIST data Shelter Animal Outcomes kaggle.com/c/shelter-animal-outcomes Predict Austin Animal Center animal outcomes TalkingData Mobile User Demographics kaggle.com/c/talkingdata-mobile-user-demographics Predict demographics characteristics from mobile phone data Predicting Facebook Check-ins kaggle.com/c/facebook-v-predicting-check-ins Predict where people like to check in on Facebook based on fictitious data similar to data Facebook employees use