E is for Eskwelabs Issue 032 - Reimagining the Future with Data ✨🌎
In our thirty-second issue, we focus on the Data Science Fellowship. We've compiled a mix of informational and inspirational content for all aspiring Eskwelabs Fellows on their admissions journey.
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! 👋 We're highlighting our flagship product, the 12-week Data Science Fellowship, in today's issue. 🖥️ It's a busy time for our Cohort 7 Fellows and the Eskwelabs team! One, our Cohort 7 Fellows are graduating—and you're invited to the celebration. (Hello, Demo Day!) Two, our Admissions team is preparing the way for a new batch of students in September. 💪
To all aspiring data scientists on their admissions journey to becoming Eskwelabs Fellows, we've compiled a mix of informational and inspirational content just for you. ❤️
What's in this newsletter:
🎉 You're invited to Cohort 7's Data Science Demo Day Showcase
🖥️ A sneak peek at the data projects you can build in the Fellowship
📖 Data stories about the state of schools in the Philippines (Data sprint project feature)
📋 Admissions news for Cohort 8
🎉 Culminating event of the Data Science Fellowship
It's capstone project presentation season again for our Data Science Fellowship Cohort 7 Fellows! Their set of capstone projects may vary in topic, but what ties them all together is their emphasis on the role of data in reimagining a better future for all. ❤️
Let's use data for good—and for the Demo Day Showcase this August 5-6, our Fellows will show us how to do just that.
🌎 (Day 1 | August 5): Predicting stock prices, classifying Supreme Court decisions, and creating an AI-powered forex trader
🌎 (Day 2 | August 6): Building a recommender engine for e-commerce, developing an app that gives medical advice, and identifying viruses with epidemic-level potential
🖥️ What you'll learn (and create!) in the Fellowship
After 12-weeks in our Data Science Fellowship, you will have the following projects you can be proud of:
🖥️ Your very first Machine Learning project (Yes, you're making your own data app!)
😍 A recommender engine that you've built yourself (You can get your friends to use it, too.)
💡 A web scraper to retrieve text data from the internet
🌎 Experience working with Big Data
Bonus: Classmates you can celebrate with after each data sprint project completion! ❤️
Double bonus: You get to keep these classmates as friends and connections for life. 💖
📖 Featured Fellowship projects
At Eskwelabs, we use the project-based learning method and have our Data Science Fellows learn via "data sprints." 🧠 A data sprint is a 2-week timeframe for learning with the goal of having a data project at the very end.
Our Cohort 7 Fellows first data sprint was called, "Data Stories Behind Philippine Schools." Through this data sprint, the Fellows learned how to obtain insights through data exploration and machine learning to create data stories. They were able to translate these into an app that can be shared to the public. 📚
How many data stories can you come up with in 2 weeks about the state of schools in the Philippines? We've compiled all the links from each of the 5 groups of 24 Fellows, so you can check out their whole projects in this blog post. 📖
📋 Fellowship Admissions updates
Admissions are ongoing for Data Science Fellowship Cohort 8. Classes for new this cohort begin on September 6, 2021. Here's a compilation of admissions-related blog posts to help you in your journey through our admissions process: 💡
Admissions process | Read this blog post to see how you can successfully complete your application and become an official student in our Data Science Fellowship.
Scholarships | Read this blog post to understand what is covered by the Aral-Aral Scholarship and the Data for Good Scholarship.
Assistance in paying tuition | Study Now, Pay Later feature of the Data Science Fellowship
Job guarantee and job interview guarantee | Read this blog post to understand the difference between a job guarantee and job interview guarantee in the context of the Data Science Fellowship.
That’s it for our thirty-second issue of the newsletter! Thanks so much for reading! 🤗
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💌 Cheering you on always,
Francine
Associate Communities Manager at Eskwelabs