Tech, Rebalanced

A day for marginalized genders / sexes to gather for civic hacking and training in a supportive environment (formerly Tech Lady Hackathon)

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It's here!✨Registration is open for the 8th Annual @tech_rebalanced! Join us for TWO Saturdays filled with community, collaboration, and fun!!✨
https://t.co/ELfQIUyiZu

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It's a wrap! ✨✨✨✨ #TechRebalanced Virtual edition. We can't wait to see you all in-person soon 🌻🌸🌺

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Helpful resources:
- https://t.co/8H5U80Bcpg
- and on Youtube: Hak5, Null Byte, DEFCONConference

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Our final session w. @kara_h, "Introduction to Information Security/Cyber Security"

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"Every field benefits from having different voices"- @kara_h

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@AfroDevGirl Thank YOU for the talk + the great list of resources! 😃

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First up after the break, we have @AfroDevGirl leading us though “Accessibility in Web Applications”

It’s not just the front end but we should be looking at full-stack accessibility.

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Documentation here! https://t.co/bYGmNoLN5U

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Thank you Alexis for bringing us into the mindset of an engineer PLUS showing us a live demo 🖥️🖲️⌨️ #a11y #FullStackAccessability

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Next up we are hearing from Valentina Subow on “Visualizing data in Python using plotnine” 💻🔬👩‍🏫

Starting with an overview of rare disease and orphan drug development data followed by a live notebook demo!

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Thank you Hayley for a great workshop! Many of us are walking away with confidence to start our own R project

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First tech session of the day: “Publicly Available Microdata: Why It's Useful and How to Use It in R”
https://t.co/Xoz9l1FGDM

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@hayleycbbrown started w. a fantastic overview of publicly available datasets followed by a starter tutorial using data from https://t.co/9lfyvLhSbw

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This morning we hosted an ad hoc sessions on the good/bad/ugly of the job market. 💾🖱️📀

A few resources and ideas:
- @DiversifyTechCo
- https://t.co/M1q9UTI80k
- @lesbiantech
- Tech worker driven recruiting efforts over top-down recruiting
- https://t.co/4rxGjVfN59

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Starting our first break this morning with some @Spotify 🎶👩‍🎤💃🕺:

https://t.co/tsXMYrPJFW

https://t.co/Ttc1tK9eIN

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“If you're in tech, you're always going to be restarting and learning” - @allenderlaura

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And we saved the best for last on day one! In “how to break into tech/civic tech” we heard from three amazing panelists @nmbudz @allenderlaura and Sarah Berlin ✨

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"Bringing the strengths of a tech background to the nonprofit sphere is very possible, but requires a shift in thinking" - Sarah Berlin

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Happy Tech, Rebalanced day, Part 2!!! 🌸✨💕🌺🌻😊 starting at 9am ET this morning. Today our speakers will cover Golang, R, Python, accessibility and cyber security.