First Inter - Quartile Newsletter 😍

Mar 11, 2022

An African Lady (Wuraola) is now a Data Science Researcher at the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. Read it here. Dreams come through as Hard work + consistency pays. In 2018, she proclaimed she will teach Data Science for Health on a big platform. Wuraola to the World !!! WAGMI.
Ivy Met Twitter CEO & got verified at the same time. We know ivy Barley for holding amazing Twitter spaces including topics related to data engineering & analytics.
AI Saturday, A popular African Data Science community in Lagos, Nigeria is working on a project called sautidb web app. Help donate your voice to sautidb web app to help them advance accented speech research.
Kennedy Wangari, A Google Developers Expert in Machine learning from Africa, starts a machine leaning twitter community, full update coming soon.
Let us support the Masakhane community as they are Building Machine Translation models for low resource language in NLP; especially African languages are important to promoting inclusion. It helps reduce bias in voice recognition systems like Siri, Alexa, etc. Masakhane is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.
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Exciting News ✨😻🤗

Some months back Enyata Community promises to give 50 Macbooks to developers in the community, I'm glad to announce that 5 Ladies from the data community got it including the Data celeb called Joy. Link to the full story here ✨😻🤗
Congratulations to Simmie Kafaru, A-Data Guru who finished his NYSC some months back always involved in the community, He got the job after several rejection emails here and there and several consolations from the data community. Link to the full gist here
Congratulations to Aminu Israel, He passed the AWS Data Analytics(Big Data) specialty exam 🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉A Data Engineer at Data2bots as his tweet escalated on twitter due to lots of congratulatory messages celebrating his hard work and resilience. Link to the full gist here
Congratulations to Abimbola, Former Data Scientist at Bluechip technologies as she made the switch as a Data Scientist at Interswitch - the gateway to African's Payment System.

Voyance, A Data + AI as a service company raised a $500k pre-seed round, to build what Databricks + Datarobot will look like in Africa.

AlphaCode: Competition-Level Code Generation with Transformer Based Architectures | Paper Review by Victor Idibia.
Data Cleaning tutorial by Simmie Kafaru.
4 Ways Machine Learning Teams Use CI/CD in Production by Stephen Oladele.
When to Choose CatBoost Over XGBoost or LightGBM [Practical Guide] by Aboze Brain.
How To Convert PDFs to Images for ML Projects Using Ghostscript and Multiprocessing by Victor Idibia.

Rising Odegua Dnotebook is a Jupyter-like open-source library for JavaScript environments. Dnotebook allows you to create and share pages that contain live code, text, and visualizations. Link to the book on Danfojs here.Contribute to Danfojs here
TinkerAI Africa are Africans who are building data-dependent and open-sourced products together. They believe people do and learn more when they work with others. Link to take part here
Jean De Nyandwi compiled a comprehensive guide on Data Structures & algorithms with Python.