E is For Eskwelabs Issue 005 - Making Plans, Saving Dates, Learning New Things 💖🗓️
In our fifth issue, we invite you to attend noteworthy dates for free classes and a virtual demo day, catch you up on recently finished workshops, and give you a sneak peek of our new online course
We created this newsletter to keep our alums, partners, and anyone interested in learning skills for the future of work updated and connected to our ever-growing family. If you want to read our previous issues, you can check them out here.
Hi, Francine here! In this issue, we are bringing you exciting dates to add to your calendar.
Aside from settling in with a coffee or tea, we invite you to have a pen and planner on standby, too. 😄
What's in this newsletter:
Learning:
🎉 Data analytics for all — 2 free Business Intelligence classes in July + new funding options!
👀 Sneak peek: A free online course that will help you land a digital job
Keeping up with Eskwelabs:
🤗 You're invited to our Data Science Demo Weekend!
🖥️ The Code League continues — 2 recently concluded workshops for Shopee Code Academy
Resources for your Post-Covid Work/Life:
📥 Download our July 2020 desktop calendar
📌 Learning
What is the first step in the data analytics process? 🤔
A. Exploratory Data Analysis
B. Data Cleaning
C. Data Collection
D. Asking the Right Questions
For the month of June we've been posting daily statistics, data analytics, data ethics, and Excel questions under our Business Intelligence pop quiz series. You can check out the other questions on our Eskwelabs Facebook page.
Answer is D.
Want to explore data analytics even more? Sign up for our free trial classes! 🎉
We have 2 more coming up!
✅ Click GOING! — Check out our official Facebook events page for more details.
✅ SIGN UP directly for the free class through this link.
Really exciting news 😍
If you're interested in our BI course, then we want you to know we have new "STUDY NOW, PAY LATER" financing options.
Please fill out this form to be invited. ❤️
Eskwelabs is committed to data education for all. COVID or no COVID, times are tough, and we want to make things happen for our learners.
👀 Sneak peek at our new online course | Did we mention that it's free too? 😍
Aral-Aral Digital Careers is Eskwelabs' free online course for career development to help learners from all backgrounds and interests thrive and stand out in an even more competitive remote work market post-COVID. Are you looking for a digital job - whether it's in data or not, we are launching this as an impact initiative to continue supporting those affected by COVID.
⭐ How career development has helped our students in the past:
Feeling inspired to take their career to the next level - "There's untapped potential in me, and I know I've got more to give."
Having clarity - "I now know where I want to go, who I want to be, and I've listed the steps I'll be taking to get there."
Becoming empowered to reach out to their dream clients - "I know myself more and what I can offer, so I'll confidently apply for the jobs that I want and would be good at."
We are preparing it to go live real soon! You can sign up on our Aral-Aral page to be one of the first notified when it is. 💻
📌 Keeping up with Eskwelabs
First-ever Virtual Demo Day 🎊
We are excited to invite you to our very first virtual Eskwelabs Data Science Demo Weekend on July 11. The Eskwelabs Data Science Demo Weekend will showcase the capstone projects of 19 Eskwelabs Data Science Fellows who survived COVID-19 together across 2 sessions:
⛅ Everyday Data | Afternoon session from 3:00 - 4:30 PM (July 11)
Projects here give answers to questions like:
How might we flag trolls on social media?
Can we predict a computer getting a malware infection?
Where are condominium prices headed in Metro Manila?
What are the types of pets that people love adopting?
Get your free Everyday Data ticket here.
🌙 Data for Good | Evening session from 6:00 - 8:00 PM (July 11)
Projects showcased here use data from the Philippines to answer these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-related questions:
Can we help farmers by predicting rice yield? (SDG 2)
How can we better track innovation by analyzing patents filed? (SDG 9)
Can we forecast election wins using social media? (SDG 16)
What roles did social media play during COVID-19? (SDG 3)
Get your free Data for Good ticket here.
p.s. Almost 200 data lovers have already signed up!
💬 Meet our Data for Good Guest Speaker at Demo Day 💬
Michael Burkhardt | Founding Member, Head of Marketing & Community at Omdena
Michael is a founding member of Omdena, a collaborative platform where global teams of data scientists build innovative, ethical, and scalable AI and Data Science solutions to real-world problems. Get your free Data for Good ticket here.
And the coding continues! 🖥️
Eskwelabs is an official training partner of the Shopee Code League, the largest regional coding competition in Southeast Asia. As a part of this partnership, we've recently conducted 2 Python workshops—one on Data Wrangling and the other on the Art of Image Processing—that helped train 2000+ participants. Shoutout to Albert Yumol from the Education team for leading these!
The Shopee Code League continues up to August 1. If you'd like help with Python basics, join our free Python course here.
📌 Resources for your Post-Covid Work/Life
📥 Download our July 2020 desktop calendar here.
That’s it for our fifth issue of the newsletter! Thank you so much for reading. ❤️
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We hope you have a good Sunday! See you again in your inbox next, next week!
💭 Let's reflect!
"What data for good projects would you take on if you had a toolkit of data science skills?"
Email us back with your answers, we'd love to read them! 😄
💌 Cheering you on always,
Francine
Community Producer at Eskwelabs