E is for Eskwelabs Issue 024 - Welcome to the Future, Data is Everything 🤯 🖥️
In our twenty-fourth issue, we get futuristic and see what's possible with data by presenting a masterclass, data sprint, and programs you can join to be part of a future where data is everything.
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! 👋 What comes to your mind when you hear, "The future is data?" In Eskwelabs, this is precisely what we believe to be true about the coming decades. 🌎 Before we bring a man to Mars, will data lead us to previous signs of life on the Red Planet? Given the advancements of deep learning, will we still be able to distinguish real images and videos from fake ones? And in a world that's embracing automation and artificial intelligence more and more each day, which is the best path for upskilling—in data science or data analytics? Today's newsletter sheds light on these questions and presents a masterclass, data sprint, and programs you can join to turn your reflections into action. 💪
What's in this newsletter:
Data Club
👽 Diving deep into Mars data from NASA
🤯 Rolling in Deepfakes and GANs
Data Science Fellowship and Data Analytics Bootcamp
💬 RECAP: Path Finder Ask-Me-Anything event
📚 REVIEW: Updated assessment dates and New Study sessions
Eskwelabs Instructors and Mentors
👋 We’re hiring!
📌 Data Club
"Are we really alone in the universe?" 🤔
We at Eskwelabs are excited to partner with Omdena in bringing this project to our Philippine audience via our newly-launched upskilling product, the Data Club—a digital place where people of varying data skill levels can come together to create data projects.
Data projects vary in terms of schedule, pre-requisites, instructors, mentors, and output. For this Eskwelabs x Omdena partnership, we will be turning the “Anomaly Detection on Mars Using Deep Learning” project into a data sprint titled “Looking for E.T.” 👽
Participants of this data sprint will leave the experience with portfolio-worthy output, connections with industry experts, and genuine relationships with fellow data enthusiasts. Data Club’s “Looking for E.T.” sprint will start this April 2021 and we will announce the details this coming week so stay tuned! 😊
"What are the pros and cons of Deepfakes technology?" 🤔
Eskwelabs' Data Club presents Caleb Tutty's Deepfakes and GANs masterclass that showcases the latest advancements in deep learning and the power of neural networks in manipulating still images and video. In 1 hour via Zoom, you will be able to:
🥋 Animate yourself doing Tai Chi
🎨 Apply style transfer techniques based on famous works of art
🤯 Meet people who have never existed
😄 Turn your face into a cartoon
📹 Generate a Deepfake video
👉 Data Club members get to attend for free, while non-members are required to sign up and grab their tickets here.
📌 Data Science Fellowship and Data Analytics Bootcamp
Cheers to Eskwelabs' Events team that pulled off a successful online Ask-Me-Anything session yesterday! 🎉 Path Finder was the ultimate cross-over event that brought our Data Science and Data Analytics Education team members into one Zoom call for an hour of insights and epiphanies about careers in the data field and the right path to take to get there.
📽️ Watch the replay here!
📝 LATEST ADMISSIONS NEWS 📝
🖥️ Data Science Fellowship Cohort 7 is open for enrolment!
April 7 - Data Science Assessment Review Session
April 28 - (UPDATED)⭐ Deadline for answering the Entrance Assessment
May 7 - Student Orientation
May 10 - First day of classes
👉 Sign up to enroll. || Complete the Assessment. || Download the Fellowship primer.
📊 Data Analytics Bootcamp Cohort 2 is open for enrolment!
March 31 - Data Analytics Assessment Review Session
April 17 - (UPDATED)⭐ Deadline for answering the Entrance Assessment
April 23 - Student Orientation
April 26 - First day of classes
👉 Sign up to enroll. || Complete the Assessment. || Download the Bootcamp primer.
📌 Eskwelabs Instructors and Mentors
We're building a movement that transforms lives through redesigned data skills education. 💪 Pursue a career you love at Eskwelabs or teach tomorrow's innovators, data scientists, and data analysts as an instructor or industry mentor. We're hiring for the following positions right now:
📩 Kindly read through the requirements and job application process for the position you're interested in. For any questions, email us at careers@eskwelabs.com.
That’s it for our twenty-fourth issue of the newsletter! Thank you for reading! 💖
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💌 Cheering you on always,
Francine
Associate Communities Manager at Eskwelabs