]After the carnivals break you can test your knowledge about trivial things once again. On Thursday 14th of March the Pattern Pubquiz 🤓 will take place at Hubble. The quiz starts at 20:30 but be on time ⏰ so we can register everyone and start on time. Bring your friends and see if you are the Pattern Trivia Champion 🏆!!

We've already passed the first half of the academic year, which means it's time to search for new board members! 🔎A new board will be installed in September, but of course, doing a board year is not something you just do out of the blue, that's why the board has organized an info session for you! ℹ️

During this info session, the board will explain several things: explanation of the board in general, explanations of the different functions, and the experiences of the current and old board. At the end, there will be some time for questions.
If you cannot attend the info session but still would like to have the slides of the presentation, then send an email to secretary@dsapattern.nl.

In March, the board will organize a Q&A session to ask all the questions you have and an informal drink to talk to all (old) board members individually. More information about this will follow.

Celebrate the new year with us during the monthly party at Sgt. Peppers in Eindhoven!

This evening is packed with fun stuff! We will start off the evening with a pubquiz hosted by the Activity Committee. After the pubquiz, the Study Trip Committee will finally reveal the destination of the Study Trip. Then we will finish off the evening with a great party at our favorite bar in Eindhoven!

Calling all superheroes!

We are delighted to announce the second Pattern Weekend, with the theme superheroes! This year the event will take place again in W'tjewel, Eersel, from 29/11 to 1/12.

The weekend will be a great opportunity for you to socialize with your fellow Data Science students at the activities during the day and parties at night :D. We will, of course, have our infamous cantus on Friday night, and we’ll make sure you waken up by the sweet voice of our one and only Daan ‘Dudu Dudu’ Vijselaar. Sadly, like last year, there will (probably) be a lack of pillows again.
Buy your tickets (€40) quickly, since we only have 70 places at the camp! Ticket sales will close on November 10th.

P.S. If you have any questions, feel free to send a WhatsApp or mail to the D.S.A. Pattern Weekend Committee (weekend@dsapattern.nl)

On November 13th, during the weekly JADS drink, we will finally reveal the destination of this year's Study Trip! The study trip will take place from March 13 - March 20.

Want to study but the library is completely full? The Education Committee has got you covered! We have booked rooms in which you can study and work together with your fellow students.

Schedule:
28 October 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
30 October 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
4 November 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
6 November 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
6 November 08:45 - 10:30 and 12:45 - 17:00 Tilburg RT304

Looking for summaries for your courses? Check out association > documents > education on our website dsapattern.nl

If you want to help out your fellow classmates, you can send your summaries to studysupport@dsapattern.nl and we will publish them on our website!

Good luck with your exams!

Want to study but the library is completely full? The Education Committee has got you covered! We have booked rooms in which you can study and work together with your fellow students.

Schedule:
28 October 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
30 October 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
4 November 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
6 November 09:00 - 17:00 Eindhoven Atlas 2.215
6 November 08:45 - 10:30 and 12:45 - 17:00 Tilburg RT304

Looking for summaries for your courses? Check out association > documents > education on our website dsapattern.nl

If you want to help out your fellow classmates, you can send your summaries to studysupport@dsapattern.nl and we will publish them on our website!

Good luck with your exams!

If you're a PSV fan:
Come watch Ajax lose at the Sports Committee's first ever event! 🥳

If you're an Ajax fan:
Come watch Ajax win at the Sports Committee's first ever event!

On the 23rd of October (Wednesday) we will watch the Champions League with some Pizza! ⚽ The event starts at 18:00 at the Cultuurtuin in Tilburg. Make sure to register via
https://dsapattern.nl/event/5da6163aedfbc077cba9fb3e.
We will provide some soda, snacks water and beers.
If you want pizza for 5€, make sure to let us know when signing up! 🍕

This Tuesday the biweekly drink takes place again. Ofcourse it will be in Hubble starting at 20:00. Hope to see you there!!

Workshop Cloud services - October 15th | 15:30 - 17:00 @ Jads MDB 0.10

Want to upgrade your professional skills and learn more about cloud services? Then join our workshop on October 15, 15.30 - 17.00 at MDB 0.10. During the workshop the use and differences between several cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Kaggle Kernel and Microsoft Azure will be introduced. To illustrate the principles behind cloud services examples will be shown. The workshop will be given by Willem de Beijer, who specialized in VM's via several projects at MKB Datalab.

The Activity Committee is feeling very festive and wants to throw a party! You and all of your friends are invited! On the 10th of October, we will start the party at 22.00, at Café Sgt. Peppers, in Eindhoven. Of course, we will not let you leave with an empty belly: a round of shots to start the party, plenty of free beer 🍻, and even a snack! 😋 The only thing you need to take care of is bringing a good mood 😁 and getting home when the party ends 🚲.

After two successful Career Perspectice Days, the third edition will take place on October 9th! Save the date!

During this event, you'll have the opportunity to talk to numerous data-related companies at the company market, join interactive business cases, attent inspiring presentations, walk around the information, have your CV checked and your new Linkedin photograph taken!

The full program of this day will be released soon via this website and the Facebook page. You will also be able to sign up for various business cases and presentations during the day.
*** Register now! ***

Click here for the after-movie of the Career Perspective Day 2018.

Night University is the free science festival of Tilburg University. On Thursday, October 3, 2019, TiU's bustling university campus is the exciting place where science and society meet, because, after all, science is for everybody! You can go to all kinds of night talks, debates, workshops, serious games, labs, guided tours, cultural performances and other experiences.

Pattern will also attend Night University with a special Night Talk given by prof. dr. Maurits Kaptein at 22:00 in SZ-31, Simon building.

More info about the Night Talk:
Novel insights from behavioral science and data science are actively used to understand, and influence, the online behavior of consumers. In this talk prof. dr. Maurits Kaptein will detail the pervasive practice of persuasion profiling.
By examining the click-stream of consumers, computers can learn which sales arguments make an individual customer 'tick'. The talk will briefly cover the necessary behavioral science insights and subsequently focus on the data science methods used to personalize e-commerce offers at large scale and there will be sufficient time for questions and reflection.

Do you want to contribute to a better tomorrow while using your Data Science and Artificial Intelligence skills? Or do you want to improve your programming knowledge while working towards a more sustainable planet? Than the Hackathon Tilburg 2019 might just be the event for you! 💯

With the Hackathon Tilburg, students from 3 different study associations (Asset | Econometrics, Asset | SBIT and D.S.A. Pattern) are challenged to come up with their best data-driven ideas in the timespan of one working day. With this years’ theme being Hacking for Sustainable Growth, all of the cases provided by our partner companies will contribute to a more sustainable future. 🌱💼

The event will take place on October 1st at LOFT Tilburg, a location with a long history of creativity and art. Drinks, lunch and dinner will be included. More information about the participating companies, cases and workshops will follow.

Make sure you buy your ticket for this event at https://store.dsapattern.nl/product/hackathon-tilburg/
Tickets only cost €5 and this includes food and drinks. 🎟
After buying your ticket don't forget to sign up as well at https://forms.gle/tzGFQyM5nzqbUB9H8
Without this you will not be registered! ❗️
See you October 1st!

Hey Pattern Member!

Already tired of the new academic year? Need to relax after some difficult courses?

Join the Hubble Committee Monday 30 September for another fries table, this time open for all Pattern members!!
You will get fries, a snack and a drink for €3.50 and you can obviously stay longer for drinks afterwards :D

Of course the event will be in Hubble, starting from 17:40.
We hope to see you there!

Let’s enjoy the nice weather now it’s still possible!🌞🌺🌼
Wednesday the 25th of September the Activity Committee is organising a wonderful beach volleyball 🏐🏐 tournament! It will start at 15:30 in Eindhoven, at the Students Sport Centre. Make sure you register via the Pattern website and fill in your teamname. Everybody has to register individually. If you do not yet have a team: don't worry! Just sign up and we will arrange that you will be placed in an awesome one.

There will be drinks available, sodas, waters and beers so we make sure you won’t dry out🥤🍺

Afterwards we will arrange food! More details on this will be announced later 😏

TLDR: 25th of September volleyball tournament. Just sign up!

Want to upgrade your professional skills and learn more about cloud services?

Then join our workshop on October 15 15.30 - 17.00 at MDB 0.10 at JADS. During the workshop the use and differences between several cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Kaggle Kernel and Microsoft Azure will be introduced. To illustrate the principles behind cloud services examples will be shown. The workshop will be given by Willem de Beijer, who specialised in VM's via several projects at MKB Datalab.

Sign up now!

WHEN? Saturday, September 21st 11:30
WHERE? Eindhovenseweg 3, 5056 RP Berkel-Enschot
FEE? Members: 5 euro (Including 1 consumption of your choice)
Non-members: 12 euro (Including 1 consumption of your choice)
MORE INFO: La Trappe beer is one of the best craft beers in the Netherlands and D.S.A. Pattern is organizing a trip to their monastery. We will rent an OV-bike at the central station of Tilburg (if the weather allows us to) and cycle 15 minutes to the beautiful town Berkel-Enschot. The tour will end at the tasting room of La Trappe where you can have a taste of all the beers La Trappe offers. Afterwards we can have a lunch together at La Trappe or Tilburg.
For more information about the La Trappe monastery https://www.latrappetrappist.com/en/!

On September 12, the new Daily Board and Department Board of D.S.A. Pattern have be installed. To celebrate this, we will have not one, not two, but three (!) Constitution Drinks! 🥂

After a nice starting drink in Den Bosch, everyone is welcome at 22:00 in Café Bolle Tilburg for the third and last Constitution Drink. We will start the evening by looking back at the academic year 2018 - 2019. After this, there will be an opportunity to congratulate the new Daily Board and Department Board. 💙🥳

Obviously, there will be FREE beers to get the party started and to celebrate the constitution of the new Boards 2019 - 2020! 🍻

Members are also welcome on the Constitution Drink in 's-Hertogenbosch that start on Thursday at 16:00 as well!

As you may have heard, Dimension Study Association has joined forces with D.S.A. Pattern. This means that from now on, Dimension Study Association will be operating as a department of D.S.A. Pattern, and will be known as Pattern Den Bosch. In this department, Koen Graat (Secretary & Treasurer) and Teun Tanis (Chairman) will pick up the tasks of the Department Board. Koen and Teun will also be working together closely with the new Daily Board of D.S.A. Pattern.
In order to celebrate the installment of the new Boards, we would like to cordially invite all Data Science students, JADS staff and on-campus company staff to the Constitution Drink in Den Bosch. The drink will take place on Thursday, September 19th. Drinks and snacks will be free for all invitees. We look forward to seeing you there!

All members are also invited to the Constitution Drink in Tilburg that will take place on Thursday as well at 22:00!

On September 12, the new Daily Board and Department Board of D.S.A. Pattern will be installed. To celebrate this, we will have not one, not two, but three (!) constitution drinks! 🥂

We will start the week off in Eindhoven, on Monday September 16th with a drink in the F.O.R.T. 'Pie Debye' . Boards of other associations are welcome to congratulate the new Daily Board at 16:00. Members of Pattern are welcome to join and congratulate the Board from 18:00 onwards.

All members are also welcome to join the Constitution Drinks in Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch.

During the first General Members Meeting (GMM) of the academic year 2019-2020, the Candidate Board will be constituted as the new Pattern Board.

The new policy plan and budget will be explained, and we will thank the current Board of Pattern for their efforts of the past year!

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More information will follow.

IMPORTANT: The fries table is only for first years. The Committee Market is open to everyone. The committee market starts at 18:30.

Need a break from calculus? Wanna become active in Pattern and join a committee? Join the Hubble Committee for a fries table in Hubble on 9 September at 17:30 after your calculus lecture, for just 1 euro!

First you will get fries, a snack and a drink, and afterwards you can enjoy more drinks during the committee market!
Here you can talk to committees such as the Activity Committee, Promotion Committee, Hubble Committee, Symposium Committee or the Intro Camp Committee and see what they're all about.

The most socially responsible cantus will be held once again on Monday September 2nd! Want to have a great start of the year with 29 other awesome D.S.A. Pattern members? Join them at the TUC! We have three tables full of beer, great songs, and a decent portion of gezelligheid . So get your tickets before the 14th of August!

TUC is a yearly event that's all about the Tilburg community. For an association to participate, it needs to do something good for the residents of Tilburg. We chose to visit a retirement home where we sing songs and drink coffee with the elderly, in a bit of a cantus fashion. We will keep you posted as it will happen in a few weeks! Want to be there? Shoot Leon a message!
Tickets cost €25.50, with which you are also supporting a good cause. Be one of the 2500 lucky few to do so! Want to get an impression of the event? Visit the Facebook page on the left. Don't forget to declare your presence over there!

From the 30th of August until the 1st of september the Bachelor Intro Camp will take place! This camp is organized only for upcoming first year Bachelor Data Science students, so that you can get to know your fellow students better!

During this camp, you will receive important information regarding the Bachelor Data Science. Furthermore, these three days will be filled with fun activities, teambuilding games and some parties. This is not an ontgroening !

We want to stress that attendance is mandatory. So, if you haven't signed up yet, sign up before August 16th!

You are registered correctly if you received a ticket with a QR code via email.

On Friday, August 30th, you are expected at Tilburg University in the morning and you'll be dropped off in the center of Eindhoven on Sunday afternoon. More detailed information will follow in August!

🚨𝘈𝘛𝘛𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕 𝘐𝘕𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘚!🚨
Litchfield will be moved to a new location for a special occasion. 👮🏼👮🏻‍♀ 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁, Pattern will be hosting a special 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 party at 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝘆'𝘀 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝘂𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴! Here, new mugshots will be taken. 📸 To survive all the animals that are trapped 'till the cage is full, we have a special deal for you: 𝟮𝟬% 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 on beer, wine, and soda! 🍻🍷🥤

Check the Facebook event for more information and put yourself on going!

𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘋.𝘚.𝘈. 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺.

Are you done with spending your vacation just chilling, with nothing special going on? 😴 We have good news for your: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 are about to happen! 🤫😈 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁, Pattern will be hosting a theme party at 𝗗𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗯𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗵𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 for the introduction week! 🥳 This party will turn your world 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯... 🙃

But intro-parents be careful! 🧐 Make sure you don't lose your children... 💀

Check the Facebook event for more information and put yourself on going!

𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘋.𝘚.𝘈. 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺.

It’s almost the end of the academic year, which means the annual Hubble end of the year pubquiz is coming up! On Wednesday the 3rd of July, after the statistical computing exam, you can compete to become the best pubquiz group of 2018/2019. The Hubble Committee will provide one drink for you! The pubquiz starts at 12:30 so no need to rush your exam, the walk in starts from 12:00 so we can register everyone on time.

You can form groups of maximum 4 people, and every participant should register under their group name via the Pattern website!

LAST MONTHLY PARTY OF THIS ACADEMIC YEAR

Everyone is feeling it, the pressure of the last weeks of the year: deadlines, last lectures, upcoming final exams, and even more deadlines... 🤓📚 It is almost time to lock ourselves into the library or our rooms and study again, but before we do this: one last party 🕺💃🏻

Next week on Thursday, June 13, at 22.00h, the last Monthly Party of the year will take place. As the weather is getting better, we will take the summer with us to Sgt. Peppers in Eindhoven! ☀️

Besides the free keg of beer, there will be a special summer discount: 5 Desparados for €15.-! 🍻 The AC will also give away some free Desparados, more information can be found on the Facebook event.

Put on your sunglasses and make sure you're there, so we can make summer start early this year! 😎

After the visit to Gamestate for the Active Members, we will go to the TU Eindhoven campus where a lovely fries & snacks food truck will arrive at 19:15 to feed hungry Pattern members for an hour. 🍟

After that, we will relax with drinks until the Monthly Party that starts at 22:00! 🕺💃🏻🍻
- Unlimited fries & snacks from 19:15 until 20:15 ⏰
- The costs are €4,- for Active Members, €6,- for everyone else, and can be bought via shop.dsapattern.nl before June 12! 💸
- An Active Member is a Pattern member doing committee(s) and is in the Active Members group chat 💙
- This event is open to everyone! 💯
- Located somewhere at the TU Eindhoven campus, to be announced
- We will sell drinks, so bring Pattern coins! 💰
- We go to the Monthly Party at Peppers (Eindhoven) together afterwards, which starts at 22:00 🎉

For that one special group of people who have put in effort to make Pattern an awesome association: the Active Members!💙

The Board wants to thank you for everything you have done for the association during an hour of playing all kinds of arcade games at Gamestate in Eindhoven. 🕹This is for free! 🆓

Playing arcade games at Gamestate is on June 13 (Thu), 18:00 - 19:00. Active Members only! Sign up now! 💯

After this, we will head to TU/e's campus for unlimited fries and snacks between 19:15 and 20:15. This will cost €4.- for Active Members and €6.- for normal members. For more information, click here.
There's more! After the unlimited fries & snacks we'll go to the last Monthly Party of the year at Stg. Peppers at 22:00! Obviously, we'll celebrate this with some free beer and a special summer deal! ☀️🍻

During the last GMM of the academic year 2018 - 2019, the first policy points and ideas of the Candidate Board will be presented.

The whole agenda with corresponding documents are available through the Pattern website via the tab documents . Please note that you have to log in with your Pattern Member account.

As usual, you can order pizza for €5 for before the GMM at 17:00 at the canteen of the Prisma building (TiU). Order before Tuesday at 12:00h via this link. 🍕

Unfortunately, there are not enough registrations for this event. Therefore, we've decided to postpone this event to a later date.

Registrations for this event have been closed!

Exciting news! The first ever 12-hour Pattern Datathon will take place on Friday the 7th of June, in Tilburg. The event is in collaboration with Red Cross with the focus on disaster impact prediction using text mining.

Program of the day
8:30 Walk in
9:00 Introduction presentation (with red cross)
10:00 Start datathon - phase 1 – brainstorming
11:00 Feedback on initial ideas
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Continue datathon - phase 2 – developing
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Continue datathon - phase 3 - rounding up
20:00 Pitches
21:00 Deciding winner
21:30 Drink
#joinTheChallenge

Registrations for this event have been closed!

Ready to kick off summer season in an active and fun way? 🌞 Join the First Years Committee's bowling evening 🎳 on the 5th of June from 19:00 to 20:00 at Mega Bowling Woensel (accessible by bike or bus from anywhere in Eindhoven)! To make sure you keep your energy up for the evening, Pattern members will have unlimited fries and bitterballen🍟🇳🇱🇳🇱 for only €5 (€7.50 for non-members).

Sign-ups have closed!

For many years Deltares, has been at the cutting edge of modelling of water and geotechnical phenomena. They have continually incorporated Data Science techniques into their work flows, to improve their understanding, forecasts and decision making. This lecture will look back at some of the ways they have incorporated Data Science into their research, and will look forward, presenting the challenges they face in a data driven world. They will also explore some of the ways in which Deltares has taken inspiration Data Science used in other fields to advance their work.

Registrations for this event have been closed!

Coming Wednesday, May 29th, the Career Orientation Day will take place at the JADS in Den Bosch. The goal of this day is obviously career orientation within Data Science. This event is mainly organised for 1st years bachelor students but all other Data Science bachelor or master students are definitely welcome!

13:00 - 13:30 Walk-in
13:30 - 14:00 Welcome & introduction by Werner Liebregts (Assistant Professor at JADS)
14:00 - 14:30 Presentation by Colin van Lieshout (Co-founder & Data Scientist at Soda)
14:30 - 15:00 Presentation by Bart Rentenaar (IT manager at Vivat)
15:00 - 15:30 Presentation by Rik Coenders (Data Scientist at ADchieve & MSc. Data Science in Engineering student at TU/e)
15:30 - 16:30 Drinks

]On Friday, the 24th of May, Pattern's first gala will take place! Besides the opportunity to dress up nicely (dress code: Black Tie), there will be photographers, you will get snacks, unlimited drinks (beer, wine, and soda) 🍺🍷, and you can listen to great music from several different DJs💃🏼🕺🏼🎵!

The gala will take place at the Museum Café of the Van Abbemuseum, in Eindhoven. Get your ticket now (and maybe even one for your date 😏)!
Tickets for members cost €37 and for non-members €42, snacks and unlimited drinks (beer, wine, and soda) are included.

The deadline for buying tickets is TODAY!

What will the future of law firms look like? Will lawyers be replaced by robots or is this science fiction? How will technology change the way firms work together with their clients? We are invited to discuss the future of AKD and their industry on May 15 at 16:00 on the 44th floor of their Rotterdam office.

Multiple lawyers of AKD will be present, including their managing partner. The goal of the evening is for AKD to get a better insight into the possibilities of using technology at their firm, including Data Science. Dinner is included!

There are limited spots available and selection will be based on a short motivation. Registration deadline is 12 May.
Programme
16:00 Walk in - drinks
16:30 Opening by Erwin, managing partner
‘This revolution will happen on your watch’
16:40 Shake up by students of Pattern, the study association of
Data Science Students
What’s happening in the world, and what do we actually
know about it?
17:00 TechTalk #1: Luminance – the AI platform for the legal
profession
17:20 TechTalk #2: Kira – machine learning software that identifies,
extracts, and analyses text in contracts and other documents
17:40 Breakouts: all AKD colleagues present divided into 3 groups,
discussing:
1. What is the impact of legal tech on your career?
2. What is the impact of legal tech on our firm's future?
3. How is all of this going to change how we work together
with our clients?
18:30 Dinner
19:00 Plenary feedback: the best ideas
Everything begins with an idea. – Earl Nightingale
19:30 Wrap up and next steps by Erwin
19.40 Drinks

On Monday, May 13th at 18:00 the 5th General Members Meeting of Pattern will take place at PZ 040, TiU. All documents will be sent to all members and will be available through the website as soon as possible.

The most important points of this GMM are the following: the next Candidate Board will introduce themselves and the current Board will propose some changes to the Internal Regulations.

At 17:00, we will have pre-GMM Pizza at the canteen of the Prisma building. Click on the Pizza! 🍕 button to order your pizza!

Do you want to get in touch with 3 interesting companies while having the opportunity to win a big prize?

On the 10th of May it is finally time for a new and exciting event Tilburg University has to offer, the Business Data Challenge!

The Business Data Challenge is a new initiative from Tilburg University organized for Master students Information Management and Data Science & Society. The aim of this event is to allow you to convert the theory and knowledge you gained during your study into practice and go for the extra mile! Collaboration, mutual learning, the application of knowledge and innovative solution-oriented thinking are central to this.

Information Management and Data Science are both fields of study that have been growing rapidly in recent years. This is mainly due to an increase in technological developments and the obtainment of new insights from data analysis via various tools. While the Information Manager ensures that the information systems are aligned with the business strategy, the average Data Scientist is concerned with analyzing data in order to optimize the business processes.

By combining these two aspects, Tilburg University wants to challenge you to enter the Business Data Challenge. Throughout the day, you will need to complete an extensive case offered by one of the three participating companies. You will have to go through various “Milestones” in order to arrive at the best end result. The final result will be judged by a professional jury and the winning team will receive a cheque of €600-! The day will end with a dinner and an informal drink. The entire day/event will be totally free of charge!

Participating companies:

Accenture
Vanderlande
Atos

Programme of the day

08:30 - 09:00 Arrival + Registrations
09:00 - 09:45 Introduction of the companies
09:45 - 11:30 Milestone #1
11:45 - 13:30 Milestone #2
13:30 - 14:00 Intermezzo
14:00 - 16:30 Milestone #3
16:30 - 16:45 Hand over the results + Short break
16:45 - 17:30 Presentations Milestone #3
17:30 - 18:00 Improvements presentations finalists
18:00 - 18:45 Finale
19:00 - 21:00 Award ceremony + Dinner
21:00 - 22:00 Informal drink

Note: There’s a maximum capacity of 60 students for this event and the participating students will be chosen by the companies based on CV selection.
Please register here and hopefully, we will see you on the 10th of May at the Business Data Challenge 2019! Tilburg University arranged a lecture-free day for all IM and Data Science & Society students! If you have any further questions or would like to have more information, please send an email to businessdatachallenge@gmail.com

The end of the year is nearing, which means it’s Announcement Drink time! 🤩 Join us on May 9 at Café Bolle where we will announce the 3rd Candidate Board of D.S.A. Pattern! 🍾🥂 The announcement will happen around 23:00.

Not only will we celebrate the announcement of the next board, it’s also Pattern’s 2nd Dies! 🎉

We will visit SIMON at their offices on Monday, May 6.
SIMON will start the In-house Day with a short introduction of SIMON, followed by a tour of their offices. They will give some presentations during the day as well and there will be more than enough room to talk to their employees.

Program of the day:
15:30 - 16:00 Welcome
16:00 - 17:45 Office tour, presentation, etc.
17:45 - 18:30 Drinks to end the day

There are only 15 places available. Registration of the event will close on Wednesday, May 1 at 12:00!

Are you a student looking for career opportunities? The third and last event organized by the Wervingsdagen are the Interviewing Days.

The Interviewing Days presents students the ultimate opportunity to follow up on their connections made during the Career Expo. Students can have a conversation with companies they are interested in regarding a potential job. On top of that, the Interviewing Days are a great opportunity to talk with the recruiters and find out what makes a company tick on the inside.

In order to make the whole selection process more objective students have to upload an anonymous resume. In order to set the right professional mood, the Interviewing Days will held at Hotel Pullman Eindhoven Cocagne, which lies in the center of Eindhoven.

Pattern is going to IBM and various startups in Amsterdam! Join us on April 24th to meet researchers and entrepreneurs. You'll get to know what they do working in the field of Data Science and you'll get to try a case out yourself, so bring your laptop!

Things we will do at IBM:

Introduction to IBM
AI basics intro with a quiz
AI ethics lecture
Project talk by an employee of the department Advanced Analytics
Visit Makerlab

In the afternoon, we will visit several startups near IBM Amsterdam. The exact startups have not yet been confirmed.
Also, exact ending time of this event has not 100% been confirmed yet. This will be communicated as soon as possible.
You can sign up until Wednesday, April 17 before 15:00. Limited amount of spots available. First come, first served. If you sign up to this event, you're expected to show up! You can sign out until Wednesday, April 17 before 15:00 as well by sending an email to info@dsapattern.nl.

You're probably studying hard for your exams 📚, but... there's light at the end of the tunnel 😇: next week Thursday (18th of April) Pattern will host a party in our bar in Eindhoven, Sgt. Peppers(there will be a free keg of beer)🍻.

Join us and celebrate the end of the exam weeks and the start of Easter🐰! The party will start at 22:00

Ticket sale starts on Friday the 15th of March at 12:00 via the webshop!

Student lives are one big contradiction. We try to be adults, but we are children at the same time. We are party animals, but we also try to be serious. What will it be? Well, we have the answer: Let it go! The serious side I mean, because we have the perfect event for you with walking contradictions.

The Disney Cantus on the 4th of April!!! There will be beer, there will be Disney and best of all: there will be a whole lot of fun! So, come to the Disney Cantus and Be Our Guest Under The Sea of beer. You only have to bring The Bare Necessities to discover this Whole New World. You will Feel The Love Tonight so don’t wait and buy your ticket at your study association. Hakuna Matata and see you then!

The Disney Cantus will be organized by Pattern and seven other associations!

We are SIMON, a smallish independent AI-only company based in Eindhoven. Our mission: to accelerate deployment of machine learning and deep learning in Europe. We specialize in taking the latest tools, platforms, and research to actually build a working product (not just a prototype!) within months. We’ll explain what we do, how we do it and who we do it with: You’ll hear from the founder (dr. Erik van Breusegem), and a Data Scientist (Moira Berens).

So if you want to know how to solve (part of) our traffic jams, what you’ll actually do when you (sort of) grow up and what it actually means to work in what you (kind of) are studying for, join us for the talk. If you don’t want to know, there still will be that thing called a free lunch.

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Hey you, don't make it bad. Take a sad friend, and bring him with you. To this, very nice event. Then he will feel, maybe a bit better🎩.

The piano man will be waiting for you to sing along🎵. Jan Klaassen will be ready with his trumpeter🎺 while the wild rover pours in some whiskey🥃. In West Virginia, near the Blue Ridge mountains where it rains sun rays🌞 there will be a legendary cantus at Bet Kolen, so bring all your friends and make sure you don't dry out from all the singing. 20:00 doors open, 20:30 cantus start🕤.

Unlimited beer🍻. 27th of March. Be on time✌🏻

The board will organize an info drink. ℹ️ During this drink, you can talk to (former) board members of Pattern and have a one-on-one conversation. In this informal setting, we want to be as transparent as possible about what a board year at Pattern really entails. You can ask and talk about anything you'd like. The board will try to help you with your decision, only if you want this of course.

Not interested in a board year? Don't worry, you can also join us at Hubble for a regular Monday drink! 🍻

Let’s wake up from our winter sleep and jump into the spring 🌻🌻.

Make sure to leave your sweaters at home and prepare for a fun night at Sgt. Peppers. 🐝 there at 22:00 so you don’t miss out the most wonderful beer in the world: FREE 🐝R 🍺. There will be a nice keg of beer waiting for us to be emptied in record time. So, free your agenda for Thursday 21th of March and 🐝 there in Eindhoven.

🐝 there or 🐝 square!

The Career Expo is the largest technical career event in the entire Netherlands, during 19 and 20 March over a 160 companies will visit Auditorium. These companies will be looking for students from all studies, including Data Science, all you have to do is show up and start a conversation! At the Career Expo you can get a potential internship or job-offer. If you are not ready for those yet, you could simply learn about the effect of choices within Data Science and potential jobs that are out there for you. We will also be offering Extra Activities ranging from a CV check-up to a free professional LinkedIn photoshoot.

Want a chance to get a one-on-one with a company you like or do you want to simply explore some interesting companies within your field? During the Career Expo we offer a chance to speak to 3 companies over the course of roughly half an hour at our Company Speed Dates. For more information or a chance to sign up, check wervingsdagen.nl.

The First Year's Committee welcomes you to spend some fun time during the Games Night 🃏 at the Cultuurtuin (Esplanade, TiU) on Tuesday, 19th of March at 19:00! There will be FREE Pizza 🍕 and using Pattern coins you can buy refreshments 🍻.

Don't forget to bring your favourite games 🎲! We can't wait to enjoy an evening together! ✨

If you want to attend, could you signup via the signup button? This way we can make sure to have pizza for everyone!

Sign up via the website to join the Skill Session by Building Blocks!

Last year, we visited Building Blocks at one of their offices in Tilburg (the other one is in Amsterdam). This year, they will visit us at the TU/e to organize a Skill Session! The company focusses on optimizing business decisions, mainly in the retail and insurance branch.

Building Block's Data Scientist Thomas will discuss the topic of Automated Machine Learning, a cool and state-of-the-art technique which is able to partly overtake the task of manually selecting models. Thomas will explain how the work is done by the algorithm now, which allows Building Blocks to deliver their solutions quicker and with higher predictive power!

The application period for the next board of D.S.A. Pattern has been opened.

The board will organize a Q&A session to give you the opportunity to ask any question. If you don't have any questions, it might still be useful to hear the answers to questions from other people.

If you already have questions in advance, you can send them to secretary@dsapattern.nl. We will try to collect all the questions and make one document with the answers.

Application deadline is April 20! You can apply by sending your CV and motivation letter to secretary@dsapattern.nl.

Sign-ups have closed!

Submerge yourself in the world of machine learning, pattern mining and mathematical programming, called Data Science. At Itility, they work in multidisciplinary teams on various projects at companies like ASML, TNO, and Vanderlande.

Itility has made a special program for Pattern, which includes a machine learning hackathon. One of their customers produces and supports baggage handling systems for airports. The consequences of a system failure can be huge for the travelers and the airport. Predicting how long it takes before a certain failure is resolved will help to minimize the impact. Are you able to predict how long it takes to fix a system based on available data? Get your game face on and join their hackathon for free. Best prediction wins a prize! 🏆

Sign up via the website for the lunch lecture by ORTEC!

ORTEC is one of the world’s leaders in optimization software and analytics solutions. They offer tailor-made and off-the-shelf analytics and optimization models and tools, analytics & consulting services for every level of maturity, as well as experts in the area of Data Science, business analytics, optimization modeling, and software engineering.

Ivo Fugers will give the lecture from ORTEC. He works as a Data Scientist at ORTEC consulting. With a background in statistics, he works on Machine Learning challenges, as well as more advanced robotization (AI) solutions for a variety of customers.

In this talk, Ivo will focus on the 'Data Science Workflow'. What steps do we generally encounter in a successful Data Science project? What challenges do we have in each step? Ivo will support this with some theory but will mainly focus on his experiences from his own work.

Roses are red violets are blue, shots are nice and so are you. 🌹 Hey, I lost my keys tonight can I sleep at yours? 🛌 Your p-value must be greater than 0.05 because I don’t reject you. 🤓

Show off your best pick up lines at the next Monthly Party on the 14th of February at Café Bolle in Tilburg! 😉Join the party at 22:30 in your most romantic clothes for the (some) free drinks! ❤️🍻

Valentine's Day is coming up and a good way of celebrating it is to gift a rose to one of your fellow Pattern loves! ❤️

Sending a rose costs you 2 Euros and it can be done anonymously, with or without a message. The Promotion Committee will bring the roses on Valentine's Day during the lectures. 🏃‍♂🏃‍♀

You have until Sunday 10th of February to fill in the form to gift someone a rose! 🌹 (DEADLINE HAS PASSED...)

New committees are starting, apply now!

As you might (or should) know, the intro period will be happening in August, for this, we need your help! Also, two other new committees are starting: the Symposium and Acquisition Committees.
Companies appreciate it a lot that besides your studies you’ve been an active student. Not only is a position in a committee a great addition to your CV, it’s a lot of fun as well! Scroll down to read about every committee of Pattern and click on the link to apply!
Application deadline is February 10! Questions? Send an email to secretary@dsapattern.nl.

The Intro Week Committee (IWC) organizes the whole Introduction Week (in Eindhoven mainly). This includes: setting up an original Data Science business case (with a company), organizing a grand Pattern party, arranging a demo lecture with the coolest professor, devising the infamous crazy88 challenges, fixing t-shirts (with sponsors) for all the 1st years, arranging dinner(s), finding enough intro mommies and daddies for both Eindhoven and Tilburg, and also finding volunteers to help during the week itself.

The Intro Camp Committee (ICC) is responsible for the Intro Camp for the future 1st year bachelor Data Science students. Some examples of the committee's tasks are: arranging the info sessions at the beginning of the camp, arranging busses to travel between the universities and the accommodation, organizing fun activities at the camp (e.g. party, cantus, get to know each other games), organizing a formal event (e.g. business case), arranging food and drinks for the whole camp, and finding volunteers to help during the Intro Camp.

The Symposium Committee (SC) will organize one or multiple symposia with a certain topic. Pattern's first symposium was organized in collaboration with Magister JFT | E-law (law association, specifically for the master Law and Technology) and was about the overlap between Data Science and Law, hence the name Law meets Data Science . Tasks of this committee will include: thinking of a interesting topic, possible collaborating with another association and/ or company, finding a suitable location, finding speakers, promoting the event, finding sponsors, and arranging food and drinks.

The Acquisition Committee (AqCo) will be responsible for finding new sponsors and partners for Pattern, in collaboration with the External Affairs Officer (Michael) and Treasurer (Robin). The committee will contact companies, if a company is interested in a partnership, a meeting will be planned with the company, Michael or Robin, and you. Then a deal needs to be made and a contract needs to be signed. If a company wants to do a lunch lecture, the committee needs to find a date, time, location, arrange food, and do promotion. The idea is that you, as a committee member, will do the whole process from contacting a company to actually organzing a career event. *NOTE* this is a completely new commitee and will be set up as a pilot to see if it works out.

The Activity Committee (AC) organizes informal events, such as parties, several informal drinks, game nights, a cantus and other fun activities.

The Education Committee (EC) is responsible for supporting all Data Science students with their education. This includes complaint handling, book discounts, study sessions, panel meetings, course evaluations, and tutorships.

The Promotion Committee (PC) is mainly responsible for promoting Pattern in general. A few of its tasks include designing and selling merchandise, keeping up and stepping up our social media game, designing a Pattern house style and creating the monthly newsletter.
The IT committee (ITC) is responsible for the maintenance of our website and web shop. Besides that, they also work on making sure that our servers are all well protected and that we are in coherence with the data protection law. *NOTE* We highly value applications with previous experience in web development, however, this is not a requirement.

The First Years’ Committee (FYC) is similar to the AC but only first year students are allowed in this committee. The FYC or free to organize different kinds of activities. First year students that have no idea which committee to join, this might be the committee for you!
Bartending at Hubble, this is not a committee! This speaks for itself, you will never have to bartend if you're not available or don't want to. If you just want to do it once, that's fine as well.