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@pengtts pengtts commented Jun 30, 2025

The Training & Certification Team at Probabl has recently launched Skolar: an open-source initiative to democratize open data science education, especially free training on machine learning with scikit-learn - this PR suggests its launch announcement.

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Thanks @pengtts, just a couple of suggestions.

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reshamas commented Jul 1, 2025

Hi @pengtts @ArturoAmorQ
I'm reviewing the post and have the following comments / questions:
a) the file name needs to follow this format: yyyy-mm-dd.....
b) skolar is fully open source? Can a link to the GitHub repo be added somewhere? Is it the same as skore?
c) wonder if there should be a line at the top indicating this is a sponsor post, and not a scikit-learn project post, for clarification.

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As per RL communication with @pengtts, I took the liberty to push some changes to this PR. I hope they help address your comments @reshamas :)

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ogrisel commented Jul 28, 2025

Thanks for the clarification in the authorship of this blog post and making the relationship between the probabl company and the scikit-learn project explicit. LGTM on my end, but I would like @reshamas or other non-probabl project members to give a +1 prior to merging/publishing.

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I think we don't need this

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Is this the right image to use? It sounds like it is some default thing?

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A few wording suggestions. Mostly about who is who/who is the voice of the post

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<span style="color:red">*This blog post has been submitted by Probabl, a sponsor of scikit-learn.* </span>
The scikit-learn project always puts efforts on education to build and nurture a
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A few suggestions, even if they say something slightly different to my interpretation of the original

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The scikit-learn project always puts efforts on education to build and nurture a
The scikit-learn project values educational efforts that build and nurture a
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The scikit-learn project always puts efforts on education to build and nurture a
The scikit-learn project has always put effort into education in order to build and nurture a
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The scikit-learn project always puts efforts on education to build and nurture a
The scikit-learn project has always put a lot of effort into education in order to build and nurture a

(I don't know if posting three suggestions will work or not, maybe don't use the GitHub UI to apply it?)


<span style="color:red">*This blog post has been submitted by Probabl, a sponsor of scikit-learn.* </span>
The scikit-learn project always puts efforts on education to build and nurture a
strong vibrant open-source community. The goal is straightforward: give
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strong vibrant open-source community. The goal is straightforward: give
strong vibrant open-source community. The goal of this is straightforward: give

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investing in its long-term sustainability. With their support and a deep
commitment from the community, we continue building bridges between research,
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"... With their support ... , we continue"

Maybe we can make it more explicit who is who here. At least I'm a bit lost if for example the "their" is the group of engineers employed by probabl, or probal or someone else? If it is probabl I think "With probabl's support and ..." would be clearer

software, and education.

When the [Inria scikit-learn MOOC](https://inria.github.io/scikit-learn-mooc/)
(Massive Open Online Course) first went live, our community got a front-row seat
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(Massive Open Online Course) first went live, our community got a front-row seat
(Massive Open Online Course) first went live, the community got a front-row seat
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(Massive Open Online Course) first went live, our community got a front-row seat
(Massive Open Online Course) first went live, the scikit-learn community got a front-row seat

Again I think it is a bit unclear whose community it is if we use "our". Given the post is written by probabl the most straightforward interpretation is that "our community" is "probabl's community" which doesn't seem quite right. I like "the community", avoids any suggestion that it belongs to anyone

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add more courses covering other open-source libraries such as skrub (for data
wrangling), hazardous (for survival analysis), and fairlearn (for fairness).
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Should we link to the homepages of these libraries?

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