3rd Inter-Quartile Newsletter
3rd Inter-Quartile Newsletter
ADC Newsletter Sponsorship.
I am happy to announce the first sponsor for my newsletter, An African AI startup company called Rectlabs.
Mission: To empower every person and organization to seamlessly build AI solutions in the easiest easy possible.
Vision: To embed into every data-driven product, the power of intelligence.
Rectlabs builds AI products like rectsports, rectvision, and other amazing AI products.
African Data/ML Communities, Events & Meetups
The Deep Learning Indaba was held between August 21-26 2022 sponsored by top organizations, InstaDeep played a key role as co-organizer of the Deep Learning Indaba, Africa’s biggest AI and machine learning workshop and conference this summer.
Around 400 researchers, scientists, developers, academics, and startup founders from across Africa attended the event at Sup’Com, the Higher School of Communication of Tunis in August. Deep Learning Indaba’s mission is to strengthen AI and machine learning in Africa.
Since the announcement of DataFestAfrica, A lot of amazing news has happened from sponsors, speakers, and so on.
DataFestAfrica will be the first-ever event that showcases all career professions within the data space in Africa. If you are a Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, AI/ML Engineer, Low Code Developer, Student, Researcher, Data Manager, Data Consumer, or Recruiter within this space, then DataFestAfrica is for YOU. DataFestAfrica 2022 will be happening October 14-15, 2022 - in Lagos, Nigeria
PyCon Ghana is an annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language and other related technologies. Get your ticket for PyconGhana 22.
SQL Tribe a community of SQL enthusiasts and professionals held an event in the capital of Lagos.
The Deep Learning Indaba Nigeria will hold from the 26th -the 27th of September at the University of Ibadan. Register to meet other Researchers, Data scientists, and AI & ML Engineers in Nigeria.
The 3rd Machine learning and Data science Symposium IndabaX Malawi will be happening on 13 -14 October 2022 at The Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, Blantyre.
This event aims to provide a dialogue on the need for and use of technological advances such as AI, ML, and Data Analytics in Malawi to strengthen the cooperation among stakeholders in these areas.
GDG Lagos is open to accepting great talk sessions for DevFest 2022 including talks on Data Science & Machine learning. DevFest 2022 is an onsite event slated for the 26th day of November 2022 and you’re encouraged to apply either as an experienced or first-time speaker.
At this Meetup, AISaturday invites experts from industry, academia, healthcare, and community managers to talk about the opportunities in data science in short 30-minute talks with a 10-minute Q&A session. Each speaker will explore the topic from the perspective of their area of expertise and current experience.
Africa AI Startup News ✨
AI Grant for startups. The goal is to find and support the great entrepreneurs who are exploring this new frontier. It's time for entrepreneurs to catch up!
Apply here by October 1st, 2022
Instadeep was the only African company featured among the 100 most promising ai startups in the world by CB Insights, Great to see InstaDeep named by TechCabal as an AI start-up company to watch! 🙌In the global AI race, dominated by the US and China, InstaDeep is the only African startup involved in shaping the evolution of the technology.
Indicina announced their $3M Seed round, led by Target Global with participation from Greycroft.
Indicina has become a leading provider of ML-driven financial analytics for both enterprise and growth customers.
Mono, A company that helps businesses to access high-quality financial data and direct bank payments. announced Mono Telco data API to businesses in Nigeria
Asalytics is a social media analytics platform that tracks Algorand market dynamics based on real-time data of user thoughts, feelings, and moods on the social media platform.
Featured Articles From The Community
It covers articles across MLOps, Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine learning & Natural language processing.
How to Build An Android App and Integrate Tensorflow ML Models by Victor Idibia
Reasons why ML in Production is Hard (and Solutions to Help!) | Part 1 by Robert John
CI/CD for Machine Learning Model Training with GitHub Actions by Zoumena Keita
Wind energy analytics toolbox: Expected power estimator by Abiodun Olaoye
Serving Machine Learning Models With Docker: 5 Mistakes You Should Avoid by Akinwade Komolafe
We Ain’t Just Cooking Jollof Rice, We Are Building AfricaNLP by Iyanuoluwa Shode
Featured Videos From The Community
This section consists of 5 videos:
MLOps.
Artificial intelligence.
Building a successful data community in Africa.
African NLP.
Merelda Wu discusses 3 tips on how to deploy more models into production while making sure that they are ultimately used by businesses & are generating value. She also discussed her experiences seeing many data science and machine learning projects fail.
Olalekan Elesin becomes the first African to be on the MLOps community podcast, this is great news. some Africans have been advocating for allowing Africans to represent the ML community in the Global space.
Wuraola Oyewusi from Nigeria explains Introduction to AI in Yoruba, Her aim is to make learning data science and machine learning accessible to Africans without considering Language as a barrier.
Marlene Mhaghanmi from Zimbabwe, In this video, talked about how to build a developer community from scratch from her experience building data communities across Africa and Worldwide. if you are interested in the data community this is a video for you and you should follow Marlene.
Featured Tweets
This section tweets across:
Podcast.
Unofficial data Meetup.
Funny Machine learning & startup joke.
Gift Ojeabulu Started a Podcast with Data Manager in Indonesia called Datapodchat where he plans to several data professionals across the world including Africans. Datapodchat is a podcast for data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, and other related data fields.
Follow Datapodchat: Twitter , Youtube
Data Merge is an unofficial hangout by data professionals held bi-monthly in Lagos, Nigeria.
I love this tech joke about startup and machine learning by Timi Adetayo
Jobs and opportunities 🚀
This section holds data jobs from technical writing, community management, data analysis, machine learning, and data engineering. There have always been barriers to Africans getting a well-paid job in the Data/ML space, In the section, I collated some remote jobs in the data field available for Africans.
Machine learning Advocate Engineer at HugginFace
Senior Content Developer at iterative
Data Science technical writer at Ydata
Data Analyst(Nairobi) at Guinness
Opportunities
AgriFieldNet India Challenge - Can you detect crop types in a class-imbalanced satellite image dataset?
Prizes
1st Place: USD 5,000
2nd Place: USD 3,000
3rd Place: USD 2,000
2. Layer.ai Air Quality Prediction Challenge - Can you use Sentinel 5P data to predict air quality in Kampala for AirQo?
Prizes
1st Place: USD 1500
2nd Place: USD 900
3rd Place: USD 600
Last Words💕
That’s all I have for you this month.
As usual, I feel this newsletter will be valuable to all Africans in the data space including investors and CEOs looking to come into the African market, share this newsletter with them. I can promise you that you’ll be doing them a solid.
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Lastly, If you have any idea on how I can make this newsletter more valuable or accommodating for you, don’t hesitate to hit the reply button or reach out on Twitter.
Till I write to you next month, stay jiggy!!
Follow Rectlabs as the headline sponsor for the newsletter this month.