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THE BLOG

Columns from the build crew

Opinions, field notes and lessons from students doing data in public — not press releases.

FEATURED · OPINIONJUN 22, 2026 · 7 MIN

The student data club is the new startup garage

Why the most interesting data work in the country might be happening in a university room at 11pm — and what that means for how we learn.

AKAhmet KipiciCLUB PRESIDENT
Core AI
JUN 18, 2026
6 MIN

Why every analyst should learn to ship

A notebook nobody can run isn't insight — it's a hobby. The case for treating analysis like software.

KAKerem Aslan
Summits & Awards
JUN 11, 2026
8 MIN

We ran a Datathon. Here's what 200 students taught us

Logistics, chaos and the surprising patterns in what beginner teams build under pressure.

Can Öztürk
Data Pipelines
JUN 4, 2026
5 MIN

Your first data pipeline shouldn't be glamorous

Forget the lambda architecture. Your first pipeline should be boring, observable and hard to break.

MDMert Demir
Data Insights
MAY 28, 2026
7 MIN

Reading the city: Istanbul transit in five charts

What open transit data reveals about how a city of 16 million actually moves — no dashboard required.

ZKZeynep Kaya
PR
MAY 20, 2026
6 MIN

Prompt engineering is just… engineering

Versioning, evals and reproducibility didn't disappear because we're talking to a model now.

Burak Şahin
Finance & Corporate
MAY 12, 2026
5 MIN

How we landed our first three sponsors

A student club's honest playbook for turning cold emails into real partnerships.

SASelin Arslan