Data for Good Waterloo Region

We are so appreciative of the time spent this past week to make an impact and "truly make all women, non-binary and transgender people from every country, culture and racial background around the globe count." @theglobalcount #nonprofit #datascience #equalityanddiversity

Happening today ❗️❗️ Looking forward to see you all at the event virtually!!! #dataforgood #dataforgoodWR #nonprofits #dataanalysis #datainsights

Bit of a 'quiet' start to 2022, but that's about to change... If you're looking to take part in something with #dataforgood like, NOW, well, here is your chance: meetup.com/Data-for-Good-… w/ @dataforgoodwr

Hello Data for good - WR family, We would truly not be where we are without you all. 2021 has been a fascinating year with lots of successful events and datathons, thanks to all of you.. Looking forward to have another exciting year together!!! Happy New Year everyone ✨✨✨

Greetings data-do-gooders!! Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!! #holidayseason #holidaygreetings #dataforgoodwr

Hey Data-do-gooders, Interested in helping @NASA? Help @NASA build a model for astronauts!!! #DataScientists #DataScience #MachineLearning #dataforgood

Hello data-do-gooders! The Data for Good - Waterloo Region chapter is hosting an event to explore the Census data(Statistics Canada) tomorrow, December 9th at 7pm. Please submit the form to complete the mandatory registration,   lnkd.in/etZCtADQ #dataforgoodWR

Speaker Announced: Paul Laffin with the Statistical Information Service, Central Region at Statistics Canada Speaker Bio:
Paul Laffin is a Consulting-Analyst with the Statistical Information Service, Central Region at Statistics Canada.

Here is what we will cover, - What is a census? - How can we use census data for non-profit? - Other survey data that exists - How to extract data via API in python/ R?

Announcement 📢📢📢 Hey Twitter fam, Come join us on Thursday, December 9th,2021 7pm to explore the depth and breadth of census data available at Statistics Canada!! MANDATORY REGISTRATION FORM: lnkd.in/etZCtADQ #dataforgood #dataforgoodwr #ngo #notforprofit

Meet one of our *winners*, Farhad Kerimov, PhD, from our latest datathon: "The fact that the findings from the datathon might have a meaningful impact on our community strongly motivated me to do my best. "

Join Data for Good - Waterloo Region our first ‘Social Media Datathon,’ as we investigate the impact of Twitter on local non-profits around the KW region. Registration information and details can be found here: meetup.com/Data-for-Good-… #socialgood #datascience #waterlooregion

IBM has a Machine Learning for Kids activity pack (for free!), to get kids more familiar with #machinelearning and learn more about the IBM cloud. It's targeted towards 6-19 year olds, but I'm sure it's interesting to the kid in all of us! ibm.org/activities/mac… #machinelearning

Have you ever been curious on the possibilities of Open Data? Check out this virtual event hosted by our friends at Data for Good YYC! meetup.com/Data-for-Good-… #dataforgood #datascience #opendata

Have you ever come across a correlation coefficient really close to 1 and thought to yourself that this must be that coveted near-perfect find! Spurious correlations exist! lnkd.in/dP2FT2S #correlation #datascience #justforfun

Are you interested in ramping up your data science portfolio? Coursera has free data science courses available at all levels to ensure you keep learning and keep growing! lnkd.in/gC2Sc2YF H/T to Aqsa Z. for curating this well organized list! #foreverlearning #coursera

Marketing & Data Science your thing? There's an upcoming Python package called "easy-ht" which works through a lot of stats tests for you. It's still in development, but pretty exciting to see where the marketing industry might be going! #Python alod83.altervista.org/hypothesis-tes…

Interested in hearing what’s happening in Canada’s tech sector? Join us at #CENGNSummit21 to network with industry experts and learn about #cdntech and #innovation. Special prices for students! Details here: cengnsummit.ca @CENGNCanada

One more sleep to go before our datathon with @BrightsideHomes. Thank you to all the volunteers and sponsors, including @collibra and @havecafe #DataForGood vancouver.dataforgood.ca

📊 [AUG. 14] 🔊Announcing our next in-person/virtual datathon in partnership with @BrightsideHomes - Regsiter today! eventbrite.ca/e/data-for-goo… #DataForGood #dataviz