🍂 first week of November news + announcements

[jesse]

Happy fall, y’all! It’s so great to see our little community continue to grow and learn from one another, and we’ve got a LOT happening in the next few days, so I thought I’d do a little round-up post.

• Our bi-weekly “reading” group is underway! We’ll be watching a 25-minute video from Brandon Rohrer, titled How Convolutional Neural Nets Work. You can join the conversation here!
• Our November book club kicks off tomorrow morning! We’ll be reading The Data Detective (if you’re outside the US//Canada the book is titled “How to Make the World Add Up”), and there’s an overview post here.
• I’ll be launching a brand new video series titled “Data + Curiosity” on our YouTube channel tomorrow at 10:30AM. This first video is an inside look at the Palmer Penguin dataset with Alison Presmanes Hill and Allison Horst, and you can catch the inaugural video with DJ Patil while you wait!

Thank you all for being here and participating in our community!

[hugo]

Got my copy just in time! I decided to go physical format for this one.

Does anybody have tips for reading effectively that you’d like to share? Like taking notes while reading a chapter, etc etc

[jesse]

awesome!

I’d say definitely try different things and see what works best for you - there’s no “wrong” way to do this. the way that I approach things is that I usually tend to highlight quotes or phrases that make me think “oh! I didn’t expect that!” and then I’ll write down questions I have about the reading.

except now that we’re all reading together, I’ll likely post most of my questions here in the community!

[hugo]

I see, I’ll be writing down questions and ideas that I think would be useful to share with the community. Thank you for the feedback!