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Newsletter June 2021
Issue 2

Updates From bitgrit

Competitions

Only one week left for the end of our Viral Tweets Prediction Challenge! Be sure to get your final submissions in before the deadline on July 6! The goal is to predict viral tweets and there’s a total of $3000 up for grabs. Think you have what it takes? Compete now at this website!

Monthly Events

We have a few great events lined up for this month so please make sure to join the bitgrit Meetup page to be notified as and when we make the announcement.

Medium Articles

Here are our latest articles on our Medium publication.

Ethereum Price Prediction with Python

A short guide to time series forecasting using the Prophet library for prediction Ethereum price.

5 Computer Vision Trends for 2021

ML Engineer, Sayak Paul presents 5 key trends in Computer Vision for 2021

Why is Data Engineering popular now?

The deep dive into the trend of Data Engineering and why they’re important.

We also posted one of our articles on Towards Data Science!

Using Data Science to Predict Viral Tweets

A step-by-step walkthrough tutorial with our tweets prediction challenge data set, from cleaning the data to building a LightGBM model.

Twitter threads

Here are some of our latest twitter threads you might find interesting! Click on them to open each thread.

What's New This Month

Data Science and AI News

This Startup Is Using Quantum Computing And AI To Cut Drug Discovery Time From 3 Years To 4 Months
Polaris Quantum Biotech is reinventing drug discovery, reducing the time it takes to find candidate molecules for drug development from the typical three years to just four months.

Accelerating AI at the speed of light
Yichen Shen PhD '16 is CEO of Lightelligence, an MIT spinout using photonics to reinvent computing for artificial intelligence.

Is Machine Learning The Key To Unlocking Gen Z Engagement? A Discussion With Jonathan Jadali Of Ascend
Jonathan Jadali, CEO and Founder at Ascend Agency shares about the ways in which he has used a data and machine-learning strategy in getting many of his clients from obscurity to domination of the Gen Z market.

Must Read Articles

Tips to prep for a data science interview

Interviewing is an important first step toward a data science job. Here's advice for what questions to expect and how a little research can help with the technical screening.

Debunking Data Myths And Misconceptions With Dun & Bradstreet’s Chief Data Scientist, Anthony Scriffignano

Anthony Scriffignano spoke about common myths and misconceptions surrounding data and how organizations must push for more responsible use.

Data Scientists Will be Extinct in 10 Years

An op-ed by Mikhail Mew, Researcher, Investor, Data Scientist on why data scientists, or at least their role and the things they do, will be extinct in 10 years.

Learning Resources

Tutorials and Projects

A couple tutorials and fun projects you can work on to boost your resume!

Courses

Here are two free courses to boost your data science skills.


Data Visualizations

Here are three awesome data visualizations from the subreddit DataIsBeautiful


Tools and Library

Here are cool tools and libraries for your data science projects.

  • Gradio – An easy-to-use UI for your ML model, function, or API with only a few lines of code
  • Augly – A data augmentations library for audio, image, text, and video by Facebook


Monthly Book Recommendations

Here are two books we think you will like.


Bonus resources from GitHub

  • ML YouTube Courses – some of the best and most recent machine learning courses available on YouTube

  • Data-Science-Cheatsheet – A helpful 5-page machine learning cheat sheet to assist with exam reviews, interview prep, and anything in-between

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