The Data Collective Marches On! ✨
Another month of gems and celebrations? Have it!
Does it feel like a new year yet? Just like that… we’re Marching along and three months away from Black in Data Week!! Please be on the lookout for a post with the request for proposals from us on all your favorite platforms if you’d like to become a contributor. We love it all - panels, technical workshops, career talks - bring your brains and vibes 🖤❤️💚
If you want to know what participating feels like, you can find some recordings on the @blacktidesdata YouTube channel from last year’s sessions.
Events
We just hosted our first rebranded coffee and code session - now a series titled The Data Collective! This month, Dr. Kimberly Deas helped data professionals upgrade their job search, resume, and cover letter game using ChatGPT. This is just the first of many, so keep coming back - we’ll have more of these career oriented skills workshops that go beyond technical training.
👥 Speaking of - if you’re thinking of how to strike up a meaningful relationship with your mentors and avoid those awkward pauses with no questions and unread DMs, join Sia for a career workshop - So You Found a Mentor, Now What? this Thursday, March 13th @ 3pm US ET
🗺️🌍 For all you reality tv show gamers, Lauren will be back this month with a cool project on predicting the winners on The Amazing Race using Python on Thursday, March 27th @ 1-2pm US ET. Sign up here for this exciting learn and play opportunity - still ✨FREE ✨
Bags and Flowers
💐 This month, we have not one but two shouts for our founder, Dr. Kimberly Deas, and our former epidemiology lead, Andrea Hobby as they have both been invited to speak at PyData Virginia! If you’re in the Charlottesville, VA area on April 18-19th, you can get tickets here to celebrate them. Congratulations, ladies 🎉
In lieu of community role shares, we encourage you to look at these two job boards that are run by two great women and champions for underrepresented communities and Black women in technology. A unique feature of both these job boards is that they are vetted.
Frauvis - Black Women in Tech Community by Naya Moss
Diversify Tech - Underrepresented in Tech Community by Veni Kunche
For those of you hiring with the new budgets, you can reach out to newsletter@blacktidesdata.com with some contact information to share roles for the community. You’re also encouraged to share wins with us so we can amplify the feets of Black professionals in data!
Stay in touch with us on the platform formerly known as Twitter and LinkedIn for updates and resource shares throughout the month and tell us what else you’d like to learn with and from the community.
Until next month. Take care, data fam!