Our Podcast 'The African Data Scientist' is Live on anchor. Join Us as we feature industry professionals from all over the world as guests to inspire us with stories of their their journeys into their careers paths/currents positions and discuss emerging issues/trends in the African DS & ML ecosystem.
In this episode, Vangelis who is a Data and Machine Intelligence Engineer at Indicina technology, a Fintech startup that provides smart services for their clients talks about his career journey and what a day in the life of a machine learning engineer looks like.
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In this episode, Jeremiah he discusses his career journey, troubles he faced and how he overcame them, how Africa can leverage AI and Data Science for growth, and his advice for those searching for data science and AI jobs in Africa.
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In this epiosode, Rising Odegua who is a Data Scientist and Researcher at Data Science Nigeria talks about the most important skills you need to succeed as a data scientist and machine learning engineer, how small companies can leverage AI, and how AI can boost the growth of African countries including some brief case studies.
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This episode features Robert John, the chief data scientist and Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Machine Learning and Cloud technologies. He gives us an unparalled look into his career journey and how he has been able to achieve so much in a relatively new field.
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In this episode, Dr Lee De Cola shares some potentials of spatial data analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) for an emerging Africa both for disruption and the continent’s sustainability. He also offered suggestions on what Africa can do to be independent of the Western countries technologically.
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The AI, ML and DS ecosystem in Africa is still at it's infact age. In this episode,we engage Dr Sebastian Raschka - a former youtube product manager in a conversation on how Africans can use education as a tool to secure a spot on the global AI space.
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There have been a lot of reports of bias in AI algorithms towards blacks and Africans - Sometimes occuring unintentionally. In this episode, Professor Julia Stoyanovich discusses how responsibility of AI can be improved and the role Africans can and should play.
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Inthis episode, Our guest Ankur Patel, author of two machine learning books and an AI startup founder, shares how to identify AI entrepreneurial opportunities, build AI startups and lessons learned from building AI startups
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a hot area of research and application in the field of AI, but why should it matter to us as Africans? In this episode, Salomon Kabongo KABENAMUALU, an NLP researcher tells us What Natural Language Processing is and why it should matter to us as Africans and so much more.
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