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Turing College supports web2 devs enter the Tezos web3 ecosystem

Turing College supports web2 devs enter the Tezos web3 ecosystem

* Turing College (YC W21), an online school for web2 developers, announced the creation of courses focused on simplifying developers transition from Web2 to Web3 * The Tezos Foundation provided a grant to create a 1-2 month specialization course on Tezos smart contracts development, featuring practical capstone projects on smart contracts, NFTs

Dominika Szulc’s story – from optometry to data science

Dominika Szulc’s story – from optometry to data science

Is Turing College different from anything you have tried before? If so, how? It’s different because of the supportive learning environment. We have standups with people who are kind, understanding, and funny. And what is most important – these people inspire and motivate me to move forward. What do you

What does it mean to study at Turing College?

What does it mean to study at Turing College?

We interviewed Dominykas Tvaska, who is a student from the 1st Turing College Data Analytics course. Dominykas studied Bioengineering at Vilnius Tech, was the president of the Student Council, and was a council member of various student organizations. In a short period of time, he was promoted to the student

Build Your Custom Python Package — Publish on PyPI

Build Your Custom Python Package — Publish on PyPI

Author: Fortune Uwha ...A guide to building your first pip installable package Python allows you to reuse code and share your code to save time and energy. So, you’ve created some convenient script that you would like your coworkers or others to use, what’s next?. This article tackles

Education issues to be tackled with data-driven solutions from upcoming hackathon UpdatEd

Education issues to be tackled with data-driven solutions from upcoming hackathon UpdatEd

* The UpdatEd Hackathon, which aims to find data-driven solutions to transform the education system, will take place on Feb 25th-27th and participation will be remote. * The hackathon is part of the EU Smart Initiative, which is bringing together 7 organisations across the EU to run 7 different hackathons to address

Web Scraping for Data Scientists

Web Scraping for Data Scientists

Author: Linda Oranya There is really no data science without data! In fact, if you want to do any kind of science at all, you first need to get data. The good news is that there is a lot of data out there that can be accessed and used. But

Ensemble learning

Ensemble learning

How bagging and boosting work and which is best In this guest article, our learner Kristina goes through the basics of ensemble learning. She takes an in-depth look at both bagging and boosting, before comparing their similarities and differences and explaining which option is best in different situations. Author Kristina

How training your team in the most in-demand skills of 2022 can fix your retention problem

How training your team in the most in-demand skills of 2022 can fix your retention problem

Going into 2022, retention is one of the single biggest challenges facing your business. In the middle of the Great Resignation (or the Big Quit as it's more informally known), companies are struggling to hold on to the talent they have, let alone grow their teams. In this context, business

A day in the life of a Data Scientist at Exacaster

A day in the life of a Data Scientist at Exacaster

One of 1000 fastest-growing companies in Europe, Exacaster are big data predictive analytics experts. The company’s 80-strong team in Vilnius provides vertical AI solutions for telco and retail businesses. Exacaster’s data management platform is used to crunch behavioural data of more than 40 million consumers daily across Europe,

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Getting to grips with a career in Data Science one correction at a time

Turing College has marked a lot of important milestones so far this year: * 3 cohorts of learners have been launched, * 70 learners from 6 different countries are currently progressing through the course, * and, most importantly, 21% of learners have now been successfully placed in data science positions. Clearly, Turing College

YC-backed edtech Turing College secures further $1.05m in seed funding

YC-backed edtech Turing College secures further $1.05m in seed funding

* Turing College secures $1.05 million seed round to continue expansion of its online self-paced data science career school across Europe. * The Vilnius-based startup, which was part of the Y Combinator W21 batch, has now received $2.5 million in funding in total. * With its concept proven to work and

A day in the life of a Junior Data Analyst at Kilo.Health

A day in the life of a Junior Data Analyst at Kilo.Health

Kilo.Health [https://kilo.health/products/] is a digital business specialising in apps and technologies for the health and wellness industry. Founded more than 7 years ago, its main markets are the USA, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and the UK. It is headquartered in Vilnius at the prestigious Vilnius Tech

A day in the life of a junior data engineer at Neurotechnology

A day in the life of a junior data engineer at Neurotechnology

Are you curious to know what the working life of a data engineer is really like? If you are then you've come to the right place. That's because today we're continuing our "day in the life" articles series with a look at the typical responsibilities and work of a Junior

Lukas Kaminskis, a co-founder and the CEO of Turing College

Turing College CEO Lukas Kaminskis joins California State University East Bay as big data curriculum advisor

Lukas Kaminskis, a co-founder and the CEO of Vilnius-based Turing College, has been appointed as an Advisory Council Member on the Big Data Certificate Program of California State University - East Bay. In this capacity, Lukas will be sharing his insights and experience gained creating longer curriculum programs with Turing

Leon Milosevic joins EPAM in another hiring success for Turing College

Leon Milosevic joins EPAM in another hiring success for Turing College

Turing College has scored another win when it comes to getting learners hired, with Leon Milosevic securing a placement with global tech giant EPAM. Headquartered in New Jersey, EPAM [https://www.epam.com/about] specializes in product development, digital platform engineering, and digital and product design, and it is the

A day in the life of a Junior Machine Learning Engineer at OAG

A day in the life of a Junior Machine Learning Engineer at OAG

Headquartered in the UK, OAG is a leading travel data provider with global operations in the USA, Singapore, Japan, Lithuania and China. Its data science team is based in Kaunas. We chatted with Robert Bilkevic, Lead Data Scientist to find out more about the Junior ML Engineer position. He filled

Another Data Science success story as Mantas Pieža joins Gjensidige

Another Data Science success story as Mantas Pieža joins Gjensidige

Turing College’s success story of getting its learners hired has continued with the placement of Mantas Pieža at insurance company Gjensidige. Originating in Norway, Gjensidige [https://www.gjensidige.no/group/about-us] has over 200 years of experience in the insurance industry. It’s operations now spread across Norway, Denmark,

A day in the life of a junior data scientist at Barbora

A day in the life of a junior data scientist at Barbora

Data science is a very varied and diverse field. This makes it an exciting and dynamic area to be working in, with growth opportunities around every corner. But it can also make it hard to understand what exactly a job as a junior data scientist might look like. And this

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Fundamentals of PCA for Data Modeling

Author Linda Oranya, Turing College learner The first time I ever heard about PCA I found its explanation so confusing that I decided it wasn’t necessary to use it when modelling data. But if you’re like I was, fear not. In this article, I’ll be debunking a

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The soaring demand for data engineers offers an easy break into a tech career

Software engineers have long been the most sought-after and best-remunerated tech specialists out there. But the tide is turning, and data engineers are now the most in-demand professionals. Data engineering is having its golden age now, boasting the highest starting salaries across the IT industry, with headhunters seeking even freshly-minted

Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) with Python

Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) with Python

Author Linda Oranya, Turing College learner Before I started at Turing college, I must say that I approached data exploration differently, which made it difficult for me to gain many insights from my data. I’ll start off by saying that whenever you want to begin exploring your data it’

Linear Regression with Scikit-Learn

Linear Regression with Scikit-Learn

A quick guide to implementing Linear regression in Python Author Fortune Uwha, Turing College learner Introduction Linear regression is the simplest machine learning algorithm to get started with, making it perfect for beginners. In fact, it’s so easy that you can basically get started with machine learning today — like,

Meet the Turing College data science learners ready to make an impact

Meet the Turing College data science learners ready to make an impact

Greta, Grace and Halimah have a wealth of experience between them. They have worked for software developers, media agencies, energy companies, NGOs and consultancies. This practical experience in the workplace has shown them the power of data, and the impact it can have on decision-making and strategy. So it's no

How do you create a data science learning community?

How do you create a data science learning community?

Community matters when it comes to successful data science studies. In fact, it matters a lot. Self study can be a hard slog, with motivation a real issue. And courses at universities and bootcamps often leave you with little guidance as to how to develop your career and improve your

3 Simple steps for Reducing Notification Overload (and staying more productive)

3 Simple steps for Reducing Notification Overload (and staying more productive)

Author Tomas Moška, Turing College Co-Founder & CPO Have you ever thought about just how many apps you use on your phone and computer each day? There are probably dozens of them, and the goal of the majority of these apps is to have us use them for as long and