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# Data Circle

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### ✨ Why support this course?

No need for extensive material prep

Great for those volunteers with or seeking Project Management/senior experience

Closed job-simulation course designed to bring students closer to job readiness
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### About the Course

The course is fully project-focused. Students work on a real-world data project aligned with their interests—such as **data analytics or data science**—and develop it throughout the semester while strengthening technical skills, collaboration, and project management.\
**Outcome:** A complete data project that may include data collection and cleaning, exploratory data analysis, modeling or automation, validation, and clear documentation of insights and decisions delivered in **three 3-week sprints**.

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### 📚 Course Details

* **Schedule:** Tuesday & Thursday, 19:00–21:00 (Online)
* **Format:** Project-Based Course
* **Session Types:**
  * <mark style="color:orange;background-color:$danger;">**Preparation Sessions:**</mark> Project setup, tooling, and team alignment
  * <mark style="color:orange;background-color:$danger;">**Project Sessions:**</mark>  General standups and updates in the main room, followed by breakout rooms for team work
  * <mark style="color:orange;background-color:$danger;">**Flex Workshop Sessions**</mark> Workshops or sessions tailored to team needs (e.g. recurring technical topics, interview simulations, or student-requested deep dives)
* **Final Outcome:** Full Project\
  Students work on a full-stack project of their choice, gaining hands-on experience in development, testing, debugging, and project management through real deliverables.

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### 👥 Volunteer Roles

<mark style="color:orange;background-color:$danger;">**Preparation Sessions:**</mark> Project setup, tooling, and team alignment

* **Session Owner:** Leads classes, introduces new concepts, and facilitates hands-on practice to help students apply them.
* **Session Assistant:** Supports students and manages Zoom logistics during class.

<mark style="color:orange;background-color:$danger;">**Project Sessions:**</mark> General standups and updates in the main room, followed by breakout rooms for team work

* **Guide:** Acts as a Product Owner and Mentor, guiding the students in their project decisions.
* **Guide & Attendance Tracker:** Acts as a Product Owner and Mentor and additionally tracks student attendance.

<mark style="color:orange;background-color:$danger;">**Flex Workshop Sessions:**</mark> Workshops or sessions tailored to team needs (e.g. recurring technical topics, interview simulations, or student-requested deep dives)

* **Session Owner:** Leads classes, introduces new concepts, and facilitates hands-on practice to help students apply them.
* **Session Assistant:** Supports students and manages Zoom logistics during class.

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### 🧩 Course Material

**Project Requirements**

* Goal: clear and achievable
* Structure: defined deliverables
* Dataset: pre-validated for quality

#### Project Guidelines

* Guidelines in GitHub repo
* Structured roadmap
* Tasks broken into steps

**Includes:**

* Description
* Technologies
* Dataset
* Deliverables
* Evaluation
* Plagiarism & AI rules
* Resources

**Template:** ML Zoomcamp Projects

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### 💡 Project Ideas

**Spring 2026 Project Ideas**&#x20;

1. **Flu Shot Learning** (DrivenData)
   * Predict H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccine adoption
   * Focus: Classification and healthcare analytics
   * [Flu Shot Learning: Predict H1N1 and Seasonal Flu Vaccines](https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/66/flu-shot-learning/page/210/)
2. **Water Table Analysis** (DrivenData)
   * Data mining for water pump functionality prediction
   * Focus: Feature engineering and classification
   * [Pump it Up: Data Mining the Water Table](https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/7/pump-it-up-data-mining-the-water-table/page/23/)
3. **Disaster Tweet Classification** (Kaggle)
   * NLP analysis of disaster-related tweets
   * Focus: Natural language processing and text classification
   * [Natural Language Processing with Disaster Tweets](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/nlp-getting-started)
4. **Store Sales Forecasting** (Kaggle)
   * Time series analysis for sales prediction
   * Focus: Time series forecasting and business analytics
   * [Store Sales - Time Series Forecasting](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/store-sales-time-series-forecasting)
5. **Stock Market Analytics** (ML Zoomcamp)
   * Build a stock market analysis and prediction system
   * Focus: Financial data analysis, time series modeling, deployment
   * Includes working with real market data and creating an end-to-end ML pipeline
   * Bonus: Opportunity to build a web interface for predictions
   * [Stock Market Analytics ML Zoomcamp](https://github.com/DataTalksClub/stock-markets-analytics-zoomcamp)
6. **Your Ideas!** Feel free to propose more ideas in the planning session

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### 🎓 Final Project

At the end of the course, students complete one full-stack project, broken into weekly milestones and sprints and at the end they give a **presentation** demonstrating their learning.

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Thank you for supporting the ReDI students 🧡

### More info:

* Find out more [About ReDI](/teacher-applicant-hub/about/about-redi-school.md)
* Find out more [About DCP](/teacher-applicant-hub/about/dcp-online.md)
* Find out about our [How to Volunteer](/teacher-applicant-hub/about/your-volunteer-journey.md)
* Find out more about the [Semester Timeline](/teacher-applicant-hub/about/semester-timeline.md)

### FAQ

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* In case you have questions, write an email to <dcp-volunteering@redi-schooll.org>.