The Summer of Data Science is a commitment to learn something this summer to enhance your data science skills, and to share what you learned. (Those of you in the Southern Hemisphere will have to pick up the excitement when we’re winding down during our fall/your spring and keep it going! Or, join us during your Winter of Data Science!)
For those of you who haven’t been following me for years, a hashtag I started back in 2015, #SoDS, is actually one of the things that started growing my twitter following. Here’s the history:
1st month of tweets, May 2015 Storified
Unfortunately, I didn’t keep up the ‘Storification’ after that, but you get the idea. It brought a bunch of us together to share our learning progress. We learned from each other, encouraged each other, and most of all geeked out about data science together!
I didn’t launch one last year, because I was starting a new job and taking a break from recording the podcast, and just didn’t want to take on too much. But I missed it, so I didn’t want to let another year pass without a Summer of Data Science, so we’re going to do it together again this year!
So, here are the only “rules”:
How to participate in the Summer of Data Science:
- Pick a thing or a short list of things related to data science that you want to learn more about this summer.
- Make a plan to learn it (like an online course, a practice project, etc.).
- Share that plan on social media, then post updates as you make progress, with the hashtag #SoDS17.
That’s it! (And yes, there’s a chef competition that used the same hashtag. No worries! Enjoy the food pics.)
If you’re looking for ideas for learning projects or topics, check out the Data Science Learning Club! Please write about your learning experiences and share in the Data Science Learning Club #SoDS forum, and/or on your own blog, and share on social media. I’ll check out the hashtag on twitter regularly and RT others. I’ll be participating myself, too!
Here’s a link to the hashtag on twitter: #SoDS17. See you there!
P.S. Did you know that there is a “Summer of Data Sci” song? :D
P.P.S. There are now Summer of Data Science 2017 t-shirts and tanks in the Becoming a Data Scientist teespring shop!
UPDATE: Here is a twitter Moment with a selection of tweets from the #SoDS17 participants this year! (It starts out with a bunch of intro tweets from me, but click through to twitter and keep scrolling!)
Summer of Data Science 2017
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The design is a combination of those submitted to our contest by Amarendranath “Amar” Reddy and Ryne & Alexis. You can see their design submissions and read more about them on the finalists post! They are each receiving prizes for being selected. Thanks Amar, Ryne, and Alexis for the awesome design!
There are a variety of styles and colors available. The Premium Tee is 100% cotton. The Women’s Premium is a 50/50 cotton/poly blend, and is cut to fit more snugly. They are available in navy blue, gray, purple, and black. There’s even a long-sleeve version!
I make anywhere from $2-$7 on each order (it’s print-on-demand, so not cheap enough for me to make a significant profit yet, and my proceeds will be lower with the free shipping offer, but I want to reward those of you who are excited to flaunt your Becoming a Data Scientist status!) and every dollar earned from these will be going to the fund that helps support my new small team of assistants, who you’ll meet soon! Also, the more of them I sell, the lower the cost to print is per shirt, so please share with all of your friends!
Here are photos of me wearing the shirt, but this was before I made the front design slightly smaller (so it doesn’t wrap into armpit), and I moved the back design slightly higher and also made the gray dots (data points?) transparent so the color of the shirt will show through there now (see store images above for current design). You can see that the teal came out as a lighter blue in printing. This is the “Premium Tee” style in “New Navy”.
Here’s a model wearing a simulated version of the shirt.
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