Hi All,

I'd like to thank everyone for joining Data Science KC and hope to see many of you in a couple weeks at the Meet and Greet!

Data Science KC is geared towards helping data scientists grow professionally and allow non data scientists to learn about what data scientists do. With that in mind, I'd like to get a feel for what group members are interested in.

So please take a moment and respond to this email or post to the discussion board. Let me know what topics you are interested in. Let me know what would help you grow professionally or just be a cool topic to learn about. Also, if you would be interested in presenting on a topic please let me know. I'd love to get two people to give 10-20 minute presentations for an August meeting!

Here are some ideas for presentations:

- Using "insert language/software here" for machine learning/statistical analysis

- Data mining and visualization techniques for "insert industry here"

- A tutorial on using R

- Natural Language Processing with Python

- How to get a job in Data Science

- Tips and tricks for implementing predictive modeling in you organization

- Using API's to automate data collection from the Web

 

Also, if you have a particular speaker that you would like to hear then pass along their name (e.g. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~evs/http://www.tomdavenport.com/) . I'll be happy to reach out them.


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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
6:30 PM

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    3101 Troost Ave. 2nd floor, Kansas City, MO (map)
    39.070419 -94.571190

    3101 Troost (Corner of 31st & Troost-east side)
  • Join us at Connecting For Good, Inc. for our:
    Monthly Digital Literacy meeting for Trainers & Mentors.
    Help teach people how to connect to and use the Internet.
    Some of the topics we cover are listed below:
    1. Computer Basics
    2. Keyboarding skills
    3. Mousing Around
    4. Search for jobs online
    5. Apply for jobs online
    6. Intro to Social Media
    7. Intro to Google Drive and Docs
    We provide one on one or group sessions at our training lab to give people the skills they need to find resources online to continue educating themselves so they can better their lives.
    We will have a short orientation session to get to know our volunteers, & determine if you want to be a trainer or mentor. We also have need for PC refurbishing help.
    Trainers will lead a class, assess the learners skills and ensure the learners complete at least 2 (two) class sessions.
    Mentors will assist a trainer, by helping any learners that need assistance with current lesson, each mentor will help 5 learners. You may assist them with using the mouse, where to type the URL, how to save a file, graphic or bookmark a webpage.
    We want to make sure we all follow a common theme when doing the digital literacy training for Connecting For Good.
    Questions: please call Dan @ 913.608.9392  8a-5p.

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    Tuesday, July 9, 2013
    6:30 PM

    http://www.meetup.com/kcruby/events/124149102
  • 1800 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, MO (map)
    39.091663 -94.584831

  • Eat
    Dinner is provided!  We'll start gathering about 6 PM (at the same venue) to eat and hang out before the meeting. Come straight from work and spend some time with the group.
    Learn
    * What's New in Ruby
    * Rubycom: Makes building a command line tool as easy as writing a function library by Danny Purcell [http://dannypurcell.github.io/Rubycom/]
    * KC Ruby RTanque League - Round 2
    Trash talking permitted.
    After-Party
    We'll retire around the corner to Bulldog for drinks and more conversation.
    Directions & Parking: We are located on the southwest corner of 18th and Baltimore Ave. Wienberger Fine Art is on the first floor and we're next to Pizzabella. Enter the double doors on the south side of the building and follow signs to the 6th floor. No code is needed to enter the building during business hours. Free parking is available on the street in the surrounding blocks.
    About our venue sponsor: Although Think Big Partners is an incubator, accelerator and coworking space, we like to classify ourselves as a "startup factory". We do it all-from our annual events to our essential startup services, form our funding platform to our network of resources, from our cowering space to our accelerator program- we are the place where people walk in with an idea, and walk out with a company.

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    For our July meeting, we have invited a facilitator to guide us through LEAD (Listen, Empathize, Ask, Deliver). This is an excellent customer service training refresher for any support desk associate.  It helps to build listening skills, teaches techniques for empathizing with the end-user, how to ask powerful troubleshooting questions and delivering the end result.  This is a perfect refresher course for team leaders and the support desk associate.

     

    Please bring yourself, and a group, to the upcoming chapter event, Thursday, July 18 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm at Johnson County Community College.

      

    Register Now and add this event to your calendar. 


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    Tuesday, July 9, 2013
    6:30 PM

  •  
    3101 Troost Ave. 2nd floor, Kansas City, MO (map)
    39.070419 -94.571190

    3101 Troost (Corner of 31st & Troost-east side)
  • Join us at Connecting For Good, Inc. for our:
    Monthly Digital Literacy meeting for Trainers & Mentors.
    Help teach people how to connect to and use the Internet.
    Some of the topics we cover are listed below:
    1. Computer Basics
    2. Keyboarding skills
    3. Mousing Around
    4. Search for jobs online
    5. Apply for jobs online
    6. Intro to Social Media
    7. Intro to Google Drive and Docs
    We provide one on one or group sessions at our training lab to give people the skills they need to find resources online to continue educating themselves so they can better their lives.
    We will have a short orientation session to get to know our volunteers, & determine if you want to be a trainer or mentor. We also have need for PC refurbishing help.
    Trainers will lead a class, assess the learners skills and ensure the learners complete at least 2 (two) class sessions.
    Mentors will assist a trainer, by helping any learners that need assistance with current lesson, each mentor will help 5 learners. You may assist them with using the mouse, where to type the URL, how to save a file, graphic or bookmark a webpage.
    We want to make sure we all follow a common theme when doing the digital literacy training for Connecting For Good.
    Questions: please call Dan @ 913.608.9392  8a-5p.

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    Tuesday, July 2, 2013
    7:00 PM

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    401 N 2cd St, Lawrence, KS (map)

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    http://www.julython.org/

    If you are interested in participating in Julython (http://www.julython.com) as part of the Python KC team, the team name is "python kc". If you live in Kansas City, MO, enter your location as "kansas city mo" and you'll be counted as part of that group, too.


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