#61 Summer coding for 11 -25 year olds, unsung WoC who sold to Amazon and Roadmaps talk!
I gotta plug this.
Summer Coding camp
Wish your younger brother would stop playing Fortnite and do something useful with himself. Wish your younger Sister would stop being on Instagram all day and actually learn something this summer?
Hurry up and try get them to:
Coders Of Colour Summer Events
5 weeks of themed events for young underrepresented people of colour ages 11-25. From Testing to AI, we have loads of fun sessions in store!
Let's Build Great Products
Roadmaps Are Dead, Long Live Roadmaps!
An active member of the UK product shares his slides on why people ship the wrong thing, some of his learnings about how to do a good roadmap.
You will find humour, good design and he tells the story of how we should use roadmaps.
Sunday Reads
Amazon’s iPhone app adds AR feature for identifying and buying small nuts and bolts
Amazon’s AR tech lets you search for specific nuts and bolts that you might need more of, but need some guidance to identify.
They are putting their acquisition to good use as they acquired a visual recognition company in 2016 called PartPic which specialised in identifying small parts. The tech was brought to life by Co-Founder’s Jewel Burks, 💁🏾whose team changed the way people everywhere locate replacement parts.
How To Become A Data Scientist in 12 Months
I love a hustle story, check this from someone in the community who is a self-described nerd and trusted in his heroes like Tony Stark and love of Sci-Fi. Plus, load’s of resources if you want to join that race.
So trust in God, everyone else, bring facts.
Just - kidding. For me, data allows us to form a hypothesis, experiment and validate. Data Science is about how we can create predictive models and IMO we are still very, very early.
Helpful Tool(s)
Free London Datasets to play with
If you do some cool stuff with this data, let’s see the skills.