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    Behind the Bar: Observations from a Hackathon Newbie & Bartender

    By Karina on Aug 17, 2020 4:46:00 AM

    Being a hackathon newbie until this weekend, I had always imagined hackathons as a room filled with glasses wearing programming nerds.  Bartending my first, I realized that they are fun, bonding experiences filled with innovation and networking opportunities.

    I served as bartender of the “Byte Bar” which was sponsored by Byte Academy, the coding bootcamp that partnered with StartupBootcamp FinTech, a global accelerator, on the event.  This was StartupBootcamp’s first hackathon in the United States and appropriately called FinTech City Never Sleeps. Developers, VCs, designers, and more from across industries came together to solve some of the greatest challenges in financial technology. Categories of challenges included Financial Trust, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Inclusion, and Target Niche Banking. Technology, energy drinks, banks and companies from around the world sponsored the event, even providing beer openers (thank you Xignite for making my life easier…)

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    Aside from the enrollees, comedians, industry experts, volunteers and business minds contributed to the 24 hour event. Cody Hess, a coding instructor, MC’ed the orchestration. His programming jokes still make me laugh..

    Topics: students hackathon Light Reads programming bootcamp
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    Debug Duck Dare

    By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 4:20:09 AM

    Topics: coding exercises challenge debug duck programming Programming Tips learning
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    How to Overcome the Curse of Dimensionality

    By Khaing Win on Aug 17, 2020 4:18:07 AM

    Dimensionality reduction is an important technique to overcome the curse of dimensionality in data science and machine learning. As the number of predictors (or dimensions or features) in the dataset increase, it becomes computationally more expensive (ie. increased storage space, longer computation time) and exponentially more difficult to produce accurate predictions in classification or regression models. Moreover, it is hard to wrap our head around to visualize the data points in more than 3 dimensions.

    Topics: Machine Learning Data Science
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    Big Data, Machine Learning and Other Themes From Finovate Europe

    By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 4:16:30 AM

    In early February, Finovate Europe, a sold-out, two-day conference in London brought together more than 1500 on a guest list composed of the “who’s who in FinTech” – VC’s, founders, press and more. The conference is perhaps only surpassed in size by its original, Finovate Fall in New York.  Products were launched by 70 companies from around the world - both startups and larger veterans.  However, no matter what the size or founder's native language, a few themes were common.  These included personalization, big data, machine learning and white labeling.  Some even indicated a shift from Finovate Fall a few months prior.

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    Topics: Finovate FinTech Startup europe london Banking Data Science events
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    Python vs R. Which language should you choose?

    By Byte on Aug 17, 2020 4:15:22 AM

    Data science is an interdisciplinary field where scientific techniques from statistics, mathematics, and computer science are used to analyze data and solve problems more accurately and effectively. It is no wonder, then, that languages such as R and Python, with their extensive packages and libraries that support statistical methods and machine learning algorithms are cornerstones of the data science revolution. Often times, beginners find it hard to decide which language to learn first. This guide will help you make that decision.

    Topics: R Python Data Science Programming Tips
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    Preparing For Facebook's Data Science Interview

    By Byte on Aug 17, 2020 4:13:02 AM

    Read on how to prepare and ace the Data Science interview from our Data Scientist, Lesley Cordero. Lesley describes her experience taking the technical test at leading tech companies, including Facebook and Foursquare.

    Topics: facebook Careers Data Science Interview
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    Interpreting and Visualizing AutoCorrelation

    By Byte on Aug 14, 2020 9:08:34 AM

    By Jithin J and Karthik Ravindra, Byte Academy

    Topics: autocorrelation Data Science
    2 min read

    How to Ride the Big Data Wave in 2017

    By Byte on Aug 14, 2020 9:05:18 AM

    Due to an exponential increase in data in the 21st century, a new term "Big Data" was coined few years back.

    Topics: Big Data Careers Data Science

    Our Blockchain Bootcamp in Bloomberg

    By Byte on Aug 14, 2020 9:04:25 AM

    Bloomberg has a great article on rising demand of blockchain developers and the lack of supply. Our course starts on October 25th, Apply now or contact us to find out more about the course.

    Topics: bloomberg Careers news education Blockchain
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    Student Interview: Coding Bootcamp to Data Integration Engineer

    By Emily on Aug 14, 2020 8:54:02 AM

    Nathaniel - "Nat" - Greenwald, a statistics major in his twenties, decided to break into data science by enrolling in Byte Academy coding bootcamp.  Nat now has an exciting career working as a data integration engineer in the AdTech industry.  Read about Nat's personal experience learning to code in addition to his career tips and advice to those who may want to follow in his footsteps.

    Topics: Student Stories students Careers Data Engineer Data Science Interview student interview

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