Spring 2015 DataDive

It's time for our... Spring 2015 DataDive!

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It's that time again! We're working with 4 great charities for a weekend to help them understand and improve their operations, marketing & strategy using business & data analysis, predictive modelling and visualisation.

Our 4 main projects are with:

• Childhood Development Initiative

• Concern

• Mathletes

• Volunteer Ireland

... all 4 projects are really interesting and have potential to change peoples lives, we're really excited :)

Logistics

We're holding the event at the new Bank Of Ireland branch & event space on Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2 from 9am to 5pm on the Saturday (moving to secret location 2min walk away 5pm to 9pm for the die-hards), and 9am to 4pm on the Sunday. We will provide breakfast, lunch, teas & coffees throughout both days, and dinner on the Saturday evening. Grand Canal is easily accessible by bus, the DART and there's good parking nearby.

What's the DataDive all about?

The plan is for you, our volunteers, to show up on the Saturday, laptop in hand, ready to work with and learn from others. You'll interact fully with the charities and other volunteers and hopefully have some fun deriving & presenting actionable insights, and possibly planning future ongoing work.

Our Data Ambassadors have been very busy at our last two DataJams (and also in their spare time) putting in a stellar effort to prepare the datasets and work with our charity partners to understand their goals, such that we can all be effective and work on some really interesting problems over the weekend and deliver good insights. All we need you to do is turn up with your laptop and a willingness to apply your data science skills to some interesting problems to help our charity partners.

We're growing a really strong data and charity focussed community here, with some fantastic skills to boot. If you're new to DataKind Dublin then please feel very welcome to come join in the fun; bring your specialist expertise in deep belief networks, your artistic flair for data visualisation, or simply your killer Excel skills - all are welcome and hopefully we can all learn from one another too.