DT228B - WWD - Class tonight

*** This message is for part-time students only
Our class tonight will be in the labs in Aungier St. in room AU-1-005

Brendan

Free Membership of Irish Computer Society for students

Working with Data - SQL - Part-time Students

The second half of the Working with Data Module begins tonight for the part-time MSc students.

We will meet in room 1-005 in Aungier Street building tonight at 18:00.

Check out my module webpage for weekly schedule, notes, lab exercises etc.
http://b-tierney.com/msc-working-with-data/

AIB DataHack - Nov 10th

Two separate programming competitions on the same day in the same place - a Datathon and a Hackathon. 

Last year's event saw over 200 students from many different Universities / Institutes of Technology attend. This year for the first time, AIB will be holding the event in their brand new Technology Centre of Excellence in Central Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18. Entrants are invited from Irish 3rd Level colleges to enter and attend the DataHack 10th November 2018 for a fun 12-hour event (8am - 8pm) where they will compete for great prizes.

 More info and register at www.aibdatahack.com

Room for Data Visualisation Thursday evenings KA1-016

Hi all,
just to confirm that the Data Visualisation class on Thursday evenings will take place in room KA1-016 as stated in the timetable.

Regards
Marisa

Accenture Graduate Event

 

Sign Up: http://www.consultingoncampus.com/#/general/236

Accenture opportunities for Data Analytics students

Accenture will be at the careers fair on the 10^th October, where they can speak to Data Analytics students interested in applying to the graduate programme. 

Students can also sign up to one of the Accenture Solves events in the following link: http://www.consultingoncampus.com/#/It is a chance to meet some of the current graduates and get some tips on the application process. This is a Dublin based event and there is €1,000 worth of prizes available each night.

Class Representative for DA stream (FT & PT)

We are looking for a Class Representative for the DA Stream, for both the Part-time and Full-time streams.
We will be having a Programme Committee a couple of weeks which requires a representative from each of the streams to attend with class feedback.
Could you elect a class rep for the following and let me (Brendan) know who it is:

• DT228A - DA
• DT228B/1 - DA
• DT228B/2 - DA

Thanks
Brendan

Student Volunteer needed: Evaluation of Oracle Cloud services

The Oracle User Group is looking for a student volunteer to perform an evaluation of one of Oracle's many cloud services.

You will be required to write up a report of your experiences and the work/use case you implemented.

For example, do you want to build a Chatbot, try out the BlockChain service, the API service,  the Developer service, the Data Integration service, the Application Container service, etc. 

There is a long list of possible cloud services. Click here to see the full list.  Make sure to click on the the Platform drop down at the top of the webpage



You can get $300 of free credit to do an initial evaluation of these services.

If you get elected for this project you will be given access to additional cloud credits to complete the project.

We are looking for one student for this project.  An additional student may also be selected.

How to apply
Check out the various Oracle cloud services.
Think of a possible use case
Think about what you would like to do.

Then write up a 1-page proposal

Send this to Brendan Tierney.  The Oracle User Group will evaluate the submitted proposals and make a selection.