Hi CompSoc!

An uncommon thing to receive a newsletter in the middle of vac, but I write to share information about a Scholarship granted by the Oxford Careers Service. Please have a look and hopefully it will be of interest to some of you.

Scholarship

The Science to Data Science programme (S2DS) offers hands on commercial experience data science experience to augment our students’ research and technical skills.

• Applications are invited from data literate Masters and DPhil candidates who already have considerable coding (Python) experience.
• Applications close on 30th April for a late July start. Two other programmes run each year, across the October /November cusp, and again in March/April.
• Pivigo provide one dedicated Oxford fellowship (full fee remission) for every programme, which has a separate application route. There are also partial scholarships available.
• There is a one off £800 fee for others, payable when they take up their place – there are no other costs.

https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/article/s2ds-data-science-programme : Programme and application details
https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/article/s2ds-bootcamp-moving-from-academia-into-data-science : Personal story is from Jasper Hajonides, an Oxford DPhil, outlining his transition via S2DS into a data science with dunhumbly

S2DS provides a 5-week immersive data science programme. It works like a full-time RSC consulting project and offers high quality commercial experience, supplemented by lectures, expert team mentoring and access to a growing alumni body of S2DS alumni.

- Kinga and the rest of the committee

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