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About this event
What is the Global Women 's Data Day?
Le Wagon Women's Data Day is a full morning of coding workshops dedicated to all women who want to gain data skills 💪. If you are interested or know women who want to discover Data Science, this is the place!
Our team of female teachers will teach you the basics of data science to help you being more efficient in your day to day activity. Each month we'll introduce you to a new concept in the Data Science, keep an eye out on our pages to not miss the next one! 🙋♀️
Schedule of the day
10:00am - Opening Keynote on the reality and why we are so few women in data science. Gender inequality in tech-related roles is unfortunately still a part of our reality 🙅♀️. In this opening note, we'll give you an overview of today's numbers, why we need a change and how you can actively be part of a change so that future generation of female coders!
10:30am - Workshop: Web Scraping with Python 🕸 🙋♀️ .Scraping is widely used in marketing for market research or customer feedback analysis. Data scientists and business intelligence specialists will use scraping to build datasets and crunch numbers. Not to mention that Google's business was built on crawling and indexing the Web. In this workshop, we use Python, the Beautiful Soup scraping library, and an interactive Jupyter notebook to show you the basics of web scraping in a step-by-step tutorial.
You are free to take home the resulting code and adjust it for your purposes. Some experience with Python will come handy, but is not necessary — basic programming concepts will be explained in an accessible hands-on manner.
12:00pm - Onboarding on Le Wagon's Learn Platform 💻 . Discover our e-learning platform (Learn Platform), where you'll get a sum-up of key notions as well as exercices to keep practicing after the workshop.
12:30pm - Q&A . Ask question 🤔 about our bootcamps, the workshop or anything else!
1:00pm - Final Goodbyes 👋
Format
Each workshop will start with a 1-hour lecture to introduce the core concepts. You will then be onboarded on Le Wagon e-learning platform (learn platform) and access a sum-up of key notions as well as exercices to keep practicing after the workshop.
Pre-requisite
Some experience with Python are recommended for Data Analytics workshop. Though basic programming concepts will be explained in an accessible hands-on manner.
About Le Wagon
Through immersive coding bootcamps, Le Wagon teaches you the tech skills and product mindset you need to thrive. Our cutting-edge programs and world-class teachers give you all the skills and tools needed to kick-start your tech career, upskill in your current job, or launch your own startup. Launched in 2014 in Paris, we are now running bootcamps in 39 cities of 22 countries all across the world.
Le Wagon is a global leader in immersive tech training, web and data, for individuals seeking to change careers or acquire specific skills, and for companies wishing to offer their employees high-performance technology training through its Le Wagon For Business offer.
