We are a group of data enthusiasts who want enhance skills in data science, analytics, visualization, and mining by working on publicly-available data in order to understand and take actions on issues in the community of Chicago. There are three topics that we discuss in each meeting:
Social issues that can be tackled using open data
Current data science competitions to participate
Online resources to enhance skills in data science
After a round of introduction and a general discussion around the three topics, we may break into sub-group to focus on each topic of interest such as; finding open data that could be used to tackle public issues, working on data science competition as a team, or learning new data science technologies or method together.
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About the group
We are a group of data enthusiasts who want enhance skills in data science, analytics, visualization, and mining by working on publicly-available data in order to understand and take actions on issues in the community of Chicago. There are three topics that we discuss in each meeting:
After a round of introduction and a general discussion around the three topics, we may break into sub-group to focus on each topic of interest such as; finding open data that could be used to tackle public issues, working on data science competition as a team, or learning new data science technologies or method together.
Relevant links for each topics are as followed:
Open / Public Data
data.cityofchicago.org datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov www.data.gov www.census.gov datausa.io www.usa.gov www.healthdata.gov
Data Science Competitions
www.kaggle.com www.drivendata.org www.olgatsubiks.com/data-for-a-cause www.datakind.org/ www.dataanalystsforsocialgood.com/
Online Learning Resource
www.coursera.org www.lynda.com www.fast.ai www.edx.org www.udemy.com www.datasciencecentral.com/
Tools
Jupyter notebook, R studio, Python
Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1796524403986276/
Where we meet
In the cafeteria
Chi Hack Night slack channel
data-sci-competition
Group leaders
Tanan Kesornbua - mrxstudio10@gmail.com Mak Hozo - makhozo@gmail.com