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 "

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

2015-10-06 Thread Shashank Srikant
urious : 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? >> >&

[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

[datameet] Data science kids - Call for volunteers - Pune - 11 October

2015-09-20 Thread Shashank Srikant
Hello all Aspiring Minds Research (research.aspiringminds.com) had organized a data science camp for kids from 5th to 10th grades in June followed up by another camp earlier this month. It was a fun-event where 15-20 kids spent half a day learning the basics of data science. They went through a

[datameet] ML-India at Bangalore and Chennai

2016-02-03 Thread Shashank Srikant
Hi all The founding team, Varun [https://goo.gl/Cgk1fu] and Shashank [ https://goo.gl/rBcdnL], of ML-India will be at IISc, Bangalore and IIT Madras, Chennai later this week. ML-India is an initiative to get all activities related to machine learning in india under one roof. Check out our

[datameet] ML India - Interview series - Prof. Partha Pratim Talukdar

2016-02-16 Thread Shashank Srikant
We had the pleasure of interacting with Prof. Partha Pratim Talukdar from IISc as part of our ML-India interview series. His talks of his area of research - extracting knowledge from unstructured data, and shows us how it spans multiple disciplines in computer science - right from building

[datameet] ML-India founders in Pune

2016-03-20 Thread Shashank Srikant
Hi all Varun Aggarwal [link ], co-founder of ML-India, is in Pune today. If anyone wants to catch up with him on discussing how to extend *ML-India * or *Data science for kids' workshops (datasciencekids.org ) *as a Pune

[datameet] ML India B'lore chapter meetup - This Saturday - Guest speaker from Xerox Research

2016-03-29 Thread Shashank Srikant
Hi all ML India's Bangalore chapter is going to have its second meetup this weekend. We have a guest speaker from Xerox Research - Arun Rajkumar, who'll be talking about ranking from pairwise data. Following this, we'll have a hands-on session solving problems on Kaggle. The meetup's this

[datameet] Data on Primary Health Centers in Bihar

2016-07-22 Thread Shashank Srikant
Hey all Does anyone on the group have data on the primary health center in Bihar? Or in any other state, for that matter. This could be any organized information on the facilities, infrastructure, footfall etc related to the PHCs in the various blocks of a state. Thanks. Shashank *Data science