UpLevel

14/12/2021

Join UpLevel in our final code-along of 2021! We'll be looking at route optimization to help Santa make his deliveries 🎅🎁

Date: 22 Dec 2021 (Wed)
Time: 7-9 PM
Place: Zoom

Sign up with Eventbrite below!

In this session, help Santa optimize his present delivery route before Christmas this year!

30/11/2021

We're having our biggest public sale for our notebooks yet! And we're rewarding those who buy earlier 😁

Discount applied automatically upon checkout!

https://dataprojects.uplevel.work/store

15/11/2021

Ever wanted to build your own synthetic dog? Join us in this month's code-along to learn how to generate your own dog using a GAN!

When: 25 Nov (Thu), 7 PM
Where: Zoom (it's virtual!)
Sign up: In the Eventbrite link below

In this session, build GAN architecture to generate your own picture of a dog and assess how life-like it is!

29/10/2021

Happy Friday! Take a break from work and have a look at our interview with Datanaut Sheng Jun, who talks about his

- switch from mechanical engineering to data science,
- interest in ML from an ethics perspective and
- use of UpLevel notebooks to further his ML goals

https://dataprojects.uplevel.work/blog/interview-with-a-datanaut-ang-sheng-jun

This post is part of a series in which UpLevel interviews our Datanauts to find out more about how they entered data science, their learning journeys and their experience with UpLevel. We hope this will inspire you on your own data science odyssey. Introduction: Sheng Jun ANG

21/10/2021

Reminder that this is happening tonight! 😁 See you there!

Interested in how to approach a new (to you) dataset from scratch? Join us this month and we'll teach you what to look out for when exploring a new dataset. You'll extract insights from a US traffic dataset and identify the right algorithms, models and statistical tests to use to help you discern trends in the data! Sign up in the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/code-along-7-identifying-trends-in-us-traffic-data-tickets-189433489667?aff=fb

12/10/2021

Interested in how to approach a new (to you) dataset from scratch? Join us this month and we'll teach you what to look out for when exploring a new dataset. You'll extract insights from a US traffic dataset and identify the right algorithms, models and statistical tests to use to help you discern trends in the data! Sign up in the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/code-along-7-identifying-trends-in-us-traffic-data-tickets-189433489667?aff=fb

07/09/2021

Can tweets be used to predict stock market changes? You've surely heard about how Elon Musk's tweets have affected Tesla's value. In September's code-along session, create your own machine learning for finance project to find out.

https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/code-along-6-can-social-media-data-predict-cryptocurrency-prices-tickets-169910774701?aff=fb

Make API calls on Twitter and CoinGecko to obtain data and train a machine learning price movement classifier.

30/08/2021

Natural language processing is an important aspect of data science that is being used in everything from translation to chatbots. Interested in this ever-expanding field? Read up about project ideas to get you started here.

https://dataprojects.uplevel.work/blog/4-use-nlp-in-market-project-ideas

From chatbots to translation, the study of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in data science has become exceedingly popular over time. As its name suggests, the main purpose of NLP is for computers to be able to parse and work with “natural”, i.e. human, language. Success in this area would tran...

23/08/2021

You've heard that healthcare analytics is a big and burgeoning field. You're an aspiring data scientist hoping to find out more. This post will introduce 4 different uses of data science in the healthcare industry and include project ideas and datasets for you to try out. Check it out now!

https://dataprojects.uplevel.work/blog/four-uses-data-science-healthcare-project-ideas

From treating diseases to prolonging life, the healthcare industry certainly has its work cut out for it. Scientists and medical professionals have started making use of data science to aid them in the industry’s burgeoning needs. Notably, researchers have most recently tried to use AI to augment ...

19/08/2021

Check out this cool article written by one of our Datanauts, for a project inspired by one of ours!

If you're a Datanaut and would like to have your project writeup featured, give us a shout.

Covid has had a profound impact on every aspect of our life. Using OpenCV and python, we examine its impact on the expressways in Singapore

18/08/2021

Only one more day left to sign up for our NLP and chatbots code-along. 19 Aug (Thu), 7 PM. Come join us!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-along-5-build-your-very-own-chatbot-with-nlp-tickets-166138836733

Use NLP and deep learning (LSTM) to train your very own chatbot!

10/08/2021

Want to be approached by recruiters, headhunters and data science managers? Build your data science portfolio as a professional with these four methods and start playing the long game today!

https://dataprojects.uplevel.work/blog/4-ways-build-your-professional-data-science-portfolio

Ready to start your own data science portfolio? Here are four methods to consider when building your own! We’re going to start by talking briefly about what a portfolio is and why you should have one. We’re keeping the introduction simple, but if you already know this, you can skip the next two ...