Making sense of Data Science: The Data Blog

This A-Z guide offers a series of simple, bite-sized explainers to help anyone understand what AI is, how it works and how it’s changing the world around us.

welcomeGreeting() {

hello(your_nerdy_nickname);

# Welcome to the UCL DSS!

}

ourBelief() {

while (world.exists()) {

dataScience .willCreateRevolutionaryThings();

dataScience .willChangeLivesForTheBetter();

dataScience .willPushHumanityForward();

}

}

var mission_1 = spreadAwareness()

Data Science is not itself an end - it’s a means to an end. We aim to help our community understand the potential of this tool, and pass it forward.

var mission_2 = spreadKnowledge()

The potential of this tool lies in its versatility: its limits are the wielder’s. We seek to help our community expand their limits, and be able to use Data Science to generate value.

var mission_3 = spreadOpportunity()

To generate value, our community must become part of the larger Data Science community around the world. That’s why, through direct exposure to industry challenges and employers, we strive to embody and strengthen that link.

Flagships

DSS Hackathon

An opportunity to put your skills to the test with real-world challenges from our sponsors

UCL AI Conference

A conference with top-of-the-line speakers across industry

Inspire to Code

A series of volunteering sessions to teach code to children in local schools

More coming!

Stay tuned for updates!

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Connect

We will match you with other people interested in Data Science based on your skills and objectives.

Workshops

Here you will find content from our workshops so you can catch up with them or look at the next ones.

Articles

We will strive to provide you with the latest news on Data Science to make sure you stay ahead of the curve.

Competitions

Put your skills to the test by taking part in challenging analysis of data sets and earn special prizes.

Network

We will boost your awareness of Data Science related opportunities, with regular updates of internship offers.

Many more

You, as a member, will be able to steer the direction of the society and the portal with your feedback.

Past events

Visa

The magic behind your card

Transactions have never been so simple: tap or swipe, and in the blink of an eye, you’re holding a bag in your hand with your desired good. Simple, right? Not quite.

In this event, the Head of External Affairs and the Data Nerd of VISA’s Data Science Lab delve into the intricacies of payment processing that lie behind the curtains, and how data science is being used to identify security breaches in payments, optimize interconnected processes through payment data, and facilitate access to payment processing across the world.

YOOX Net-A-Porter group

Data Science & Fashion

It always seems to simple: we browse our perfect fashion recommendations, click to buy, and sooner than we know it, we have the latest fashion trend at our front door. But there’s a lot of math behind this magic.

In this event, we host the YOOX Net-a-Porter group to tell us about the role that Data Science is playing to re-define the workings of the fashion industry, and optimize the customer’s search for garments according to their historical search patterns and interests.

Meet the Comm(un)ittee!

Social event

Get a chance to talk to the committee behind the data science society! With pints on us, the event is sure to give you a chance to meet some new faces when the year starts.

Facebook

Thomas Gizbert

We follow the journey of Thomas Gizbert, a UCL alumni from a humanities background as he found his calling for data science and analytics.

In this speaker event, Thomas explored the changing dynamic of the data science industry, and more specifically the way in which data science is being adapted in the consulting and social media industries.

BCG

Data science case studies

Ever wondered what projects data scientists are working on a day to day basis?

William Browne, senior data scientist at the Boston Consulting Group goes through exciting data science projects such as statistical significance of e-commerce web metrics, deep learning and natural language processing, and clustering techniques used for scanning through company reports and newspapers.

KPMG

AI & Healthcare

Our finale event of the year and one of our largest events of the year touched on topics including the representation of women in the technology sector with Rebecca Pope, senior data scientist at KPMG. Rebecca talks about why diversity is needed in the technology and data science sectors and how KPMG is taking strides in female empowerment.

Rebecca then explores the various exciting projects she undertook in her academic and professional life, such as working with the NHS to use hospital categorization data and APIs to produce a ambulance routing system for stroke patients. Data science concepts such as confusion matrices, Hadoop stacks, contagious scores and Monte-Carlo distributions were discussed in relation to the healthcare and AI industry.

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