Data Sciencing While Female

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A Meetup grows to 1,227 members in just over a year, backed by concrete events: workshops, a hackathon on traffic data, a job board and sponsorships that actually buy food and venues. Membership analysis uses R and a public Shiny app with leaflet maps on GitHub and shows WDS DC as the second-fastest growing DC2 group, ~30 members behind data viz DC. Workplace data cites being 1 of 40 (≈2.5%) vs industry 12% and practical coping strategies.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:29Women Data Sci DC overview
3. 4:31Analyzing meetups with R Shiny
4. 8:35Only female on team
5. 12:36Advice for women
6. 13:20Interviewing and gender gaps
7. 15:48Diversity outreach
8. 17:38Handling comments
9. 18:22Advocating for change
10. 19:12How to get involved with Women Data Scientist DC
11. 21:01Asking questions confidently
12. 22:04Sponsorship and speaking
13. 23:51Engaging remote members
14. 25:22Pi Day and Python
15. 26:48Pi Ladies mission
16. 28:36Advice for male allies
17. 30:56Q&A

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