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Syria Data Science

Syria Data Science is a community that brings together data analysts, scientists, engineers, researchers, and data-curious professionals from Syria and the diaspora. The community focuses on practical data skills, real-world applications, and knowledge sharing grounded in local and regional contexts.

Members of Syria Data Science
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    Experts and students from various fields

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Why Syria Data Science

  • Practical learning

    Real-world data learning, not hype-driven.

  • Strong connections

    Connections, mentorship, and collaboration.

  • Regional context

    Data grounded in the Syrian and Arab context.

What We Do?

We organize a variety of activities to engage and empower our community. These include talks and panel discussions, hands-on workshops, and community-led discussions. In the future, we also plan to facilitate practical projects and collaborative initiatives to provide members with real-world experience and opportunities to work together.

  • Talks and panel discussions

  • Hands-on workshops

  • Community-led discussions

  • Practical projects

    Coming soon
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    Working with Syrian open data

    Workshops · Damascus

    A hands-on session on finding, cleaning and joining the public datasets that cover Syria.

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    Machine learning in practice

    Talks & panels · Online

    Three practitioners on the models they actually ship, and the far less glamorous work around them.

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    Panel: careers in data

    Talks & panels · Online

    Practitioners from inside Syria and the diaspora on how they built their paths into data work.

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    Hands-on: data storytelling

    Workshops · Online

    A practical workshop on shaping a dataset into a clear, honest narrative for a non-technical audience.

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Who Is This For?

If you work with data — or want to — there is a place for you here.

  • Students
  • Data analysts
  • Data scientists
  • Data engineers
  • Researchers
  • Practitioners

Grow with a data community that shares what it learns

Join Syria Data Science to learn, collaborate, and build alongside people working on real data problems.

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