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| Do I need to be studying data science or statistics to join? |
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| NO! Not at all. The greatest power of stats/ds comes from application with expertise in other fields. We'd love to learn more from biology, chemistry, arts, and even buisness students. We can pool together our abilities to create some really cool stuff. Additionally, everyone needs good data viz. If you're trying to communicate something to another human, we've got the best graphs in the game. |
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LAST WEEK WAS BUSY
| Posted | 16th Dec 2024 |
| Author | OWEN O'CONNOR (Secretary) |
Hello once again!
For a student run-society I think we had a pretty busy week last week. We had our AGM on Wednesday and our very first seminar on Friday, where we were treated to a brilliant talk by Eryk from Zurich. During the AGM we covered what we've done up till now, looked forward at our plans for the future and elected a core committee, and some focus groups for different tasks. If you'd like to have a look, the slides are available through the link below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O1DG0sDYEpmf1F94GSI2WlsppXq_SKsR/view?usp=sharing
These were just to guide us through what we wanted to cover, for more details on any issues you can message us here on the mulife page.
Eryk's talk was far greater than any of us could have ever imagined. he travelled from London to set the bar seriously high for the series of talks we're planning for semester 2.
He covered a wide array of topics, including his decision to study actuary, his journey to the present, an explanation of what an actuary does (not just crunching numbers, policy and market knowledge applied), interactive examples, actuarial exams, the corporate structure he has encountered, the use of R and other statistical software, the types of clients and problems he handles, work-life balance, and the ultimate importance of developing your skills.
Anyone present might recall that I was personally very excited when he -unpromptedly- mentioned his use of R-Shiny, as a powerful tool at his disposal. Although he followed this by saying that his team was moving to Power BI he further championed R-Shiny as a more powerful and customisable tool. So I will take the opportunity again to plug our R-Shiny competition, more details can be found in an adjacent post. Finally, we'd like to wish you all a very merry christmas. We'll be working behind the scenes to bring you all some quailty events next semester.
Stay tuned!
Quick update - Logic house Noticeboard
| Posted | 6th Dec 2024 |
| Author | OWEN O'CONNOR (Secretary) |
Hello again stats fiends!
The weather maybe cold but the passion for data science is always red hot.
I just wanted to post a quick update to keep you all in the loop.
Firstly, as the image suggests, the lovely people in the maths & stats department have given us a noticeboard across from math's soc's.
If you want to find it, it's on the top floor of logic house, between MS1 & MS2.
This is a great gift to us, we'll make serious effort to keep it up to date with DSS activities and other bits and pieces you might find interesting.
Be sure to check it out as you go to your tutorials throughout the week. As time goes on it will only get better.
Secondly, we'll be having our first ever AGM next wednesday! Details are available here on this page.
This an opportunity for us to share plans and ideas for semester 2 and the further future. If you can, please come along.
There'll be opportunity for discussion, elections for committee roles and maybe even some simple games for the craic.
It's open to anyone and everyone, so if you're reading this and you're somehow still on the fence, come and let us make our case.
That's all for now, some eagle-eyed viewers may have seen the soft-announcement of our next event on the noticeboard in logic house but we'll only post details here when everythings confirmed.
Good luck in your exams.
Stay warm, study hard and may all your Christmas wishes come true.
SHINY COMPETITION
| Posted | 3rd Dec 2024 |
| Author | OWEN O'CONNOR (Secretary) |
Hello, current and future Data science enjoyers!
We hope you're all keeping well.
Our Shiny App developement competition has been LIVE as of the info session / start event we hosted on Wednesday the 27th of November @ 16:00.
If you couldn't make it; do not worry.
You can join at any time before the deadline - which is END OF FIRST WEEK IN SEMESTER 2 (FEBRUARY 9th) -
This means you can focus on exams now if needed and any free time you find inbetween you can get cracking on your app.
If you're looking to register yourself (or as part of a team) you can do so using this link: https://forms.office.com/e/1VNUz5P4FF
If you're looking for more information you can also check out this powerpoint which was presented at the info session here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GRYI9iAJcS22bB68X-UHJ9j-6UsYa16k/view?usp=sharing
This contains all the specifications for the competition.
Any and all other questions, message us here! or instagram, or anywhere.
Good luck to all, we can't wait to see what you come up with!
What's the craic? -We're up to something
| Posted | 1st Dec 2024 |
| Author | OWEN O'CONNOR (Secretary) |
Hello reader!
Firstly I'd like to thank for you expressing enough interest to come check out the page.
Who are we? a mad bunch. Personally, my name is Owen and I joined MU into 2nd year and intially struggled to find some community. I knew I loved data science, and there's load of people here studying some aspect of it, so there must be other fanatics too. Myself and our president Louis Thomas had these same feelings so last year we found a handful of other lunatics and made a presentation for a society application.
We hosted coffee mornings, met (controversially) in the library, spread the word of stats/ds at Maynooth open days, and clubs/socs fair days alike and hatched up a bunch of wild plans. The maths/stats department here has rallied behind us along with a number of lecturers and of course the clubs and socs office (shoutout to the Maries)
So here we are, some months later, getting official approval on the 28th of November 2024. We're gonna try do some cool stuff, stuff that we think would greatly supplement that fantastic stats/ds content already provided by the university. We've got a focus on being commuter friendly (where possible) especially because our entire commitee is comprised of commuters. Semester 2 we think will really see us expload onto the scene but we're making no excuses for now. We'll try cramp some stats/ds goodness in before the end of 2024. If you've got any time to share with us between exam prep and general life, we'll try our best to make it worthwhile.
And for the real fanatics reading this, please join us. We'll need all the help we can get. Our output is EXTREMELY corrolated with the input. When we we're applying to create this we required 30 signature, we got more than 70, so we know you're out there!
As tescos never fails to remind us, every little helps.
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