Data Science ClubData Science ClubMarmara University
ABOUT THE CLUB

We're not a club. We're a build crew.

Our story

EST. 2024 · ISTANBUL

Most university clubs run on meetings, minutes and hierarchy. We started the Data Science Club because we wanted the opposite — a place that felt like the data teams at the companies we admired.

So we built one. Six departments operate like cross-functional squads. Work happens in sprints. Knowledge is shared in code reviews and open demos, not gatekept. New members ship something real in their first month, whether that's a chart, a model, or a data pipeline.

Data isn't the new oil. It's the new soil — and we teach a generation how to grow things in it.

The result is a community fluent in the same language as global tech communities and agile startups — and ready to speak it the day they graduate.

SIX DEPARTMENTS

How the club is organised

01Data Insights
PURPOSE

Turn raw university and open datasets into clear decisions through exploratory analysis and business intelligence.

FOCUS AREAS
EDABITableauPower BIMatplotlib
VISION

Make data literacy a default skill for every Marmara student, not a specialism.

02Core AI
PURPOSE

Research and build intelligent systems — from classic ML to deep learning, language and vision.

FOCUS AREAS
Machine LearningDeep LearningNLPComputer VisionPython
VISION

Ship student-built models that solve real problems on and off campus.

03Data Pipelines
PURPOSE

Engineer the plumbing that moves, cleans and stores data reliably at scale.

FOCUS AREAS
Data EngineeringETLHadoop / SparkSQL / NoSQLCloud
VISION

Give every club project a production-grade backbone it can trust.

04Summits & Awards
PURPOSE

Run the events that bring the community together — summits, award nights and competitions.

FOCUS AREAS
SummitsAward NightsDatathonHackathon
VISION

Make our Datathon the event students in Istanbul circle on their calendars.

05Finance & Corporate Relations
PURPOSE

Keep the club funded and connected through sponsorship, budgeting and industry partnerships.

FOCUS AREAS
SponsorshipBudgetingCorporate Relations
VISION

Build a partner network that turns into internships and first jobs for members.

06PR
PURPOSE

Tell the club's story and grow its voice across every channel.

FOCUS AREAS
Social MediaGraphic DesignContentMedia Relations
VISION

Become the most recognisable student data brand in Turkey.

OUR TEAM

The people behind it

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CLUB PRESIDENT

Ahmet Kipici

Ahmet is a final-year statistics student and the president of the Data Science Club. He pushed for it after a summer internship convinced him that the gap between what universities teach and what data teams actually do was a problem worth solving — together, in public.