Re: [datameet] Teach kids some data science! Pune - 11 October

2015-10-06 Thread Shashank Srikant
venkat, as an aside, would you know folks in pune who may be interested in volunteering for this as mentors? colleagues or friends perhaps? Shashank On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Shashank Srikant < shashank.srik...@gmail.com> wrote: > oh, you bet they do! > we're the "old-school" ones :)

Re: [datameet] Teach kids some data science! Pune - 11 October

2015-10-06 Thread Shashank Srikant
oh, you bet they do! we're the "old-school" ones :) you could read more about what the mentors thought about them here - http://www.datasciencekids.org/search/label/mentor%20stories Shashank On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > Curious : do 5th-9th

[datameet] Teach kids some data science! Pune - 11 October

2015-10-06 Thread Shashank Srikant
Hey all, Want to experience how young kids react when you teach them data science? Aspiring Minds Research (research.aspiringminds.com) organized two camps, one in Bangalore and the other in Delhi, where kids from the 5th to 9th grades learnt data science through a hands-on exercise designed

Re: [datameet] Data of Indian Railways

2015-10-06 Thread srinivas kodali
So the new version of trains at a glance is out, this post is basically how to mine TAG to get train numbers. http://www.lostprogrammer.com/blog/trains-and-numbers/ Also OGD (data.gov.in) released a set of trains details a month or so ago, 2810 trains to be specific. Which can be found here

Re: [datameet] Teach kids some data science! Pune - 11 October

2015-10-06 Thread Venkatraman S
Curious : do 5th-9th standard kids understand Excel? Whoa!! On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Shashank Srikant < shashank.srik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Want to experience how young kids react when you teach them data science? > > Aspiring Minds Research (research.aspiringminds.com)