What Is Coming Up?
By: Roy Klaasse Bos
Tags: Students, Data, Data Science, Storytelling, Study

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Although it’s only a 10-day-old (or young?) initiative I can already tell you a bit about the direction we are heading in. As you have probably noticed by now, the chosen format is an online blog. Although we have surely considered creating an old-school paper magazine, we have decided to start off with the blog format for now. The main reason for that is that it allows for more flexibility and requires less manpower.

As for the content, we have defined the following three pillars:

1. Study — Ins and outs about JADS (e.g. construction work, housing), study association, events (e.g. hackathon, intro-week), study abroad experiences, ‘The Hot Suit’ (personal interview with JADS-people).

2. Research (update: has been renamed to “Academia”)— In-depth interviews with professors, PhD’s and PdEng’s about cutting edge technologies such as Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning as well as their views on how the data science industry is moving and opportunities for data entrepreneurship.

3. Career — Interviews with top-tier data science companies (bol.com, Booking.com, Uber), data entrepreneurs and innovative start-ups. In other words, a look behind the scenes at the coolest places where you might do your internship next semester or start your career shortly.

In addition to these recurring pillars, we want to involve the Data Science community (you!) as much as possible. In particular, we warmly welcome the following types of articles:

Side projects / Start-ups — Have you built the new Facebook after pulling all-nighters for more than a year and in need for market validation? Do you want to pitch your multi-billion dollar idea to a data science community? Are you looking for a technical co-founder? Have you conducted a unique research for your master thesis? Don’t be shy and share your story with the rest of the world!

— Have you built the new Facebook after pulling all-nighters for more than a year and in need for market validation? Do you want to pitch your multi-billion dollar idea to a data science community? Are you looking for a technical co-founder? Have you conducted a unique research for your master thesis? Don’t be shy and share your story with the rest of the world! Column — We’re open to almost anything data science related. For example your favorite R/Python packages, your view on privacy and ethics in the field of data science, your happiest (or most embarrassing!) experience at JADS; nothing too crazy!

Something For Everyone

Hopefully that all sounds great to you. If so, know that you can be a part of this very blog (even if you think you are not a good writer). Yes, we want you! Even more, unless you have never written any English article in your lifetime, you are illiterate (proof by contradiction), you have an increased risk of heart-attacks when talking to strangers, your mobile photo library is currently completely empty, you have no clue what Photoshop is and you are one of those rare individuals who is not on Facebook, your contribution is much appreciated. Put differently, there is definitely something for everyone:

✍️ Writer — Creating an aweome story that inspires our audience.

Creating an aweome story that inspires our audience. 😈 Editor — Making sure the writer doesn’t look ridiculous (checking for grammar, spelling, contents and overall structure). In Dutch: “taalnazi’s”. No seriously, a critical look is much appreciated.

Making sure the writer doesn’t look ridiculous (checking for grammar, spelling, contents and overall structure). In Dutch: “taalnazi’s”. No seriously, a critical look is much appreciated. 🕵️ Interviewer — Doing your homework beforehand (=stalking interviewees online), visiting cool people and impressive companies and asking your tricky and clever questions to capture their untold stories.

Doing your homework beforehand (=stalking interviewees online), visiting cool people and impressive companies and asking your tricky and clever questions to capture their untold stories. 📷 Photographer — Tweaking aperture, shutter speed, crop-factors, white balance and lightning settings, repeating “say cheese” a bunch of times and making sure interviewees don’t look worse in photos than they actually are (or think they are).

— Tweaking aperture, shutter speed, crop-factors, white balance and lightning settings, repeating “say cheese” a bunch of times and making sure interviewees don’t look worse in photos than they actually are (or think they are). 👩‍🎨 Designer — Creating visually appealing figures that add another dimension to our blog articles and make people say “Wow, I didn’t no programmers cared about design at all?!”

Creating visually appealing figures that add another dimension to our blog articles and make people say “Wow, I didn’t no programmers cared about design at all?!” ❤️ Promoter — Writing catchy social media posts that seduce people to read our articles and engage in our community.

What’s in it for you? An awesome opportunity to expand your network and discover the ever changing world of Data Science yourself. And in case you wondered, of course you can fulfill multiple roles simultaneously.

One more thing, we know that you have a busy student life. Therefore, we don’t like waisting your (and our) time by having long and weekly recurring committee meetings. You can work where and whenever you want. Promised.