Hi Silicon Beachers! This semester, I am acting as the secretary for the Monash Data Science Society. We are working together with UniHack to host a datathon on the 30th of September and 1st of October. This is a student led datathon, and the inaugural datathon for the Monash Data Science Society.
While we have had quite a bit of interest from sponsors, we are actively seeking a sponsor that has a data set that we can use for the datathon. The data would be analysed by students, and they would be asked to produce data visualisations and/or predictive/inferential data models. The outputs will then be judged by professionals in the field. In addition to the obvious benefit of having some bright minds crawling over your data, we can offer: - Meet talented students. Get access and establish personal relationships with driven data science students before anyone else. - Witness these students apply data science techniques. We provide a real environment for teamwork and execution, outside of the classroom or assessment centre environments. Students deal with a real, large dataset representing similar challenges faced in an industry setting. - Promote graduate and internship programs through our social media channels and Careers Fair. - Partner with the one of the fastest-growing data science student cohorts in Australia – Monash Data Science Society is the main body representing undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in Monash University. - Brand recognition and exposure: Show off your company’s technical side through various means – such as social media promotion, mentoring sessions, and data talks. What we are looking for: - A dataset (large - eg. over 1 million records) - Some assistance with funds to cover prizes - Mentors with a data science background, or coders in python/R If anyone is interested - please drop me an email awar0002 AT student.monash.edu and I can send you our proposal. I am also happy to meet face to face with anyone based in MELBOURNE. Thanks, Amanda Ward -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
