Talks, competitions, and meetups run by and for members across the UP System.
30 events
The 2026 edition turns to public health analytics. Forty teams from across the country build data science solutions for disease surveillance, health risk prediction, and healthcare delivery, with the finals in Quezon City on November 14, 2026.
A Globe Data Dialogues session on August 4, 2026 with Celso T. Villano Jr. of Globe Telecom on using AI responsibly in coursework and on the job.
Technology Summit 2026 by the DLSU La Salle Computer Society, supported by UP DSSoc.
A GCash and UP DSSoc talk on April 27, 2026 with JC Diamante on responsible AI and data privacy in financial technology.
A Globe Data Dialogues panel on April 13, 2026 with three members of Globe Telecom’s data architecture team on what the job actually involves.
The society’s first ACLE workshop, held on February 24, 2026, taught more than 200 participants how to pull patterns out of public records.
The January 2026 mentorship session, with Myk Ogbinar of San Miguel Corporation on where vector databases sit in data science and AI systems.
UP DSSoc’s flagship nationwide competition. In 2025, student teams built data science solutions for atmospheric resilience, and Team 2Ls of UP Cebu won the final round at UP Diliman on November 22, 2025.
An October 2025 online mentorship session with Eskwelabs, where Abby Prado demonstrated the AI features built into Google Workspace, especially Google Sheets.
The second Wolfram workshop with Philippine Consortium Inc., a September 2025 online session by Karl Isensee of Wolfram Research on machine learning, statistics, language integration, and dashboards.
Dr. Michael Daniel Lucagbo of the UP School of Statistics on how statistics shapes the field of data science.
Ten online SAP Analytics Cloud training sessions in May 2025, organized by SAP and the ASEAN Youth Organization with the UP Data Science Society.
The third Data Dialogues session with Globe, a May 2025 webinar on telling the story in a dataset through visualization, with Kay-Ven Ralph Jao of Globe.
A free April 2025 online info session with Philippine Consortium Inc. on Wolfram tools for data science, with Dr. Nicamil Sanchez and Yuli Stait-Gardner.
The second Data Dialogues session with Globe, a March 2025 Zoom talk by Globe Enterprise data professionals on managing and governing data.
The February 2025 mentorship session, with Atty. Rabelais Medina on the laws and frameworks that AI developers and data scientists have to work within.
A February 2025 mentorship workshop with Jay Cruz on turning a data science notebook into an application with Streamlit and Gradio.
The first Data Dialogues session with Globe, a January 2025 fireside chat with three Globe data scientists at the Computational Science Research Center, with an online option.
A December 2024 mentorship workshop on Zoom about automating data cleaning and preparation with Pandas and Scikit-learn, taught by Junel Alje Isanan, following an MS Excel session by Jomar M. Jordas on November 25.
Dr. Bernard Alan B. Racoma on how good data visualization helps the public understand weather and climate science.
The 2024 edition asked teams to apply data science to sustainable urban mobility. UP Cebu’s Team CCLEX won with LakbAI.
A career talk by Dr. John Boaz Lee, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook, on getting into and funding an MS or PhD in data science abroad.
A July 2024 mentorship workshop on building with large language models through LangChain, taught by Louise Gabrielle Talip and streamed live on Facebook.
A two-Saturday workshop on satellite image analysis and computer vision in May 2024, with lectures from three DOST-ASTI researchers and a geospatial project judged on the second day.
Dr. Syrus Gomari walked members through a data science pipeline for urban mobility problems, then had them apply it in groups.
John Michael C. Egana of the Philippine Genome Center explained epidemiological and genomic surveillance of COVID-19 in the first mentorship session of the semester, on November 25, 2023.
The 2023 edition, co-presented with BPI, asked 160 teams to promote financial inclusion through data science. Insigion of Mapua University won at the BPI Data Wave Summit.
The society’s first mentorship workshop, on August 19, 2023, had Dr. Reinabelle Reyes of the National Institute of Physics, UP Diliman teach data storytelling over a Facebook livestream.
The second edition, presented with GCash, ran from its announcement on May 6, 2022 to the livestreamed finals on June 18, 2022 as an exploratory data analysis competition on Philippine election data. Team CYX won, ahead of Team Liwanag and Team MalayAnalyst.
The first Philippine Junior Data Science Challenge, an exploratory data analysis competition run with Thinking Machines, was launched on March 24, 2021 and ended with the finals on April 24, 2021. Team EBenneJuLA was named champion.
