The Africa Data Science Intensive (DSI) Program uses real-world problems to give participants hands-on knowledge of the latest algorithms and techniques in data science and artificial intelligence, deep insights on industry trends, network building and practical team skills used in business to facilitate transitioning to a data science role in industry, academia or through...
The 3rd Africa Data Science Intensive (DSI) programme started on 24 January with 20 participants (45% of whom are women) chosen from 2268 applicants and representing eleven African countries. “The rigorous selection procedure, which included online assessments and interviews, emphasised gender and geographic diversity with the goal of giving the brightest and most talented...
AFRICA DSI 2020 Report The Africa Data Science Intensive (DSI) Programme uses real-world problems to give participants hands-on knowledge of the latest algorithms and techniques in data science and artificial intelligence, deep insights on industry trends, network building and practical team skills used in business to facilitate transitioning to a data science role in industry,...
“In September & October I was fortunate enough to attend the Data Science Intensive Program (DSI) in Cape Town. In a word: WOW! The program brought together 16 students from 7 African countries for 8 very intensive weeks with an ambitious goal: To ensure that anyone who completes the DSI is able to contribute...
DSI Program 2018 Report The 8-week DSI program started on 27 August and finished on 19 October 2018.The main goal of the DSI was that participants who successfully complete the program should be able to add value to any data science team in the world. As a result, the emphasis of the program was...
“As an eager novice in the subjects of machine learning, Python, and deep learning; this blog post is a summary of a recent personal week-long journey into discovering the intuition behind recurrent neural networks and their implementation in Python. Something like a roadmap for myself one week ago: pointing out valuable resources, key discoveries...
“Weather prediction is something that binds all of us together. Usually when people meet someone they dont know (like your uber driver, etc..), part of the conversation revolves around how good or bad the weather is and what is the prediction saying for the next few days. Interestingly modelling the weather is usually a...