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We officially arrive at the Term 1 holidays as all exams are finally over. If you are a first-year student, we hope that your transition to university has been smooth, and that you've had lots of fun meeting new friends and learning new concepts. Take care everyone and get well-rested!

If you were one of the lucky people who have secured a camp ticket, we hope that you're just as excited as we are. Stay keen for 3 days of CAMPOCALYSE!!

Our BBQ is on this Sunday (tomorrow) so if you want the perfect opportunity to relax after exams and chill with friendly people at Coogee Beach, then this event is not to be missed.

If you were unable to attend any of our educational workshops held this term, then the holidays right now would be the best time to learn some new skills.
Click me for access to our educational resources!

Also, thanks to everyone who attended our previous events, including the "Demystifying Data Science" event in Week 1, our two Python workshops and trivia night in Week 3, the Happiest Hour event at Side Bar in Week 5, our Alooba event and picnic in week 6, speed friending in Week 7 and finally our amazing R tutorials and Starter-thon in weeks 7 and 8!

Stay tuned for some of our upcoming events to be held next term including: our first instalment in the Data Science in Various Industries series: Telco and Utilities panel discussion and our Intro to SQL workshops.

Jobs Board

Check out our Jobs Board, which you can also access from our website. Constantly updating with new internship and graduate offers, this is a site to bookmark if you're looking to boost your career in data science!

Upcoming Events

End of Term BBQ

ARE YOU:

Keen for an opportunity to meet

amazing people

and become THE biggest bnoc?

A UNSW student ready

to have a good time

and chomp on some good food?

Searching

for a social event

to end

T1 in the best way possible?
Then look no further!

If you answered "YES" to any of the above questions...

You've been invited to come to the

DataSoc End of Term Event

!!

Sunday (16 May) 11am - 2pm at Coogee Beach
Register here for the event!
Find out more here!

Events Board

If you want a better look at past and future events at DataSoc, make sure you check out our website's events page! Here, we keep an updated list of all the events that are in the works.

Blog Posts

Active Learning: faster and cheaper than before

Most common data science and machine learning techniques rely on huge amounts of data to get the predictive accuracy required to get a model up and running. What happens if data is expensive, or slow to get? This article discusses how we can speed up the accuracy improvement with minimal time or resource cost - active learning!

Don't forget to check out our blog posts on the DataSoc website.

Click me to explore our blogs!

Data Discoveries

From 0 to Research Scientist

Have you ever wanted to exponentially grow your data science knowledge but don't know where to begin? For this week's data discovery, we present the "From 0 to Research Scientist" guide, a GitHub repo containing a library of free data science resources.

For example, if you've ever wanted to dive into the mathematics of machine learning, you can read up on "Mathematics For Machine Learning" a textbook published by Cambridge University Press. The textbook starts from basics, explaining machine learning and its mathematical foundations before diving into the maths behind your favourite techniques.

This is just a hint of the mountain of information in the repo that you can explore to develop your Data Science knowledge.

Click me to check out more!

KEEP IN TOUCH AND NEVER MISS A THING

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