Second Inter-Quartile Newsletter
Second Inter-Quartile Newsletter
Community News in the Africa Data Ecosystem
Google Research office finally opened in Accra, Ghana, A paradise in Africa. Check Tweet here
Can you help Uganda determine if maize crops have been affecting maize crops by the fall armyworm pest? Zindi is holding a challenge for Africans called Makerere farm Allyworm challenge with a price tag of 1000USD.check link here
Text-to-speech just got more accessible as Coqui-ai & Masakhane collaborated to release a new freely available TTS system in African Languages. Link here
The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is coming to AFRICA with a proposed date, May 2023. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of deep learning. It is globally renowned for presenting and publishing innovative research on all aspects of deep learning. Link to full tweet here.
Deep learning Indaba will take place in Tunisia, applications are now open. Link here
DataFestAfrica is making preparation for a big conference in Africa for the Data community as they make strategic plans. Follow for more info
Pycon Nairobi with amazing speakers across the globe.Tweet here.
Andela Expands its talent by offering to hire data analysts, link.
Nvidia plans to develop Africa's AI Ecosystem. Read more.
Africa AI Startup News ✨
Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽💻
ML Model Validation: How to Work With an Open Source Platform by Aboze Brian John.
Lasso and Ridge Regression Tutorial by Simmie Kafaru.
How to Fine-tune BERT for Text classification (HuggingFace, Transformers, TensorFlow 2. O) by Victor Dibia.
How to implement gradient explanations for the HuggingFace Text classification model(TensorFlow 2. 0) by Victor Dibia.
ML observability vs. ML monitoring by Ejiro Onose.
Open-source Updates ✍🏾🦅
Adeshola, An ML Engineer at Tempo, built an open-source library called Slik -wrangler, Contribute to this open-source tool.
Datafest Africa is seeking contributors to their open-source website. Be a contributor.
Exciting News🤗
Chris Chinenye Emezue from Nigeria, The founder of LanAfrica and a Research Intern at the University of Montreal becomes a Machine learning engineer and developer advocate intern at HuggingFace. Read more
A Zimbabwe Lady called Marlene Mgawi, The Pycon Africa Chair, Dev Advocate at Voltron data and a director for the Python Software Foundation will be a keynote speaker at Pycon Colombia. Link here
Wale Akinfaderin, A Google Developers Expert in Machine learning and a bona fide real Madrid fan hoping to win the champions league against Liverpool celebrates 2 years at Amazon. Tweet here
Rising Odegua, A GitHub star and a GDE moved to London and also become a Full-stack Engineer at Noss Data. Link here
Aboze Brain, a prolific technical writer for Data Science & ML, and an Ex technology business analyst at Axa Mansard got a job as a Data Scientist in a Fintech company called Fair money. Tweet here
Ola, A Twitter Data Influencer, A Mancity fan, a Youtuber, and Ex-Head of Data Management and Data Science become a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for Data Science & Machine learning, Link
Featured Tweets and Videos 😍
Here are some tweets I think are cool and some of my favourite videos by Africans from YouTube some weeks back.
Quote of the day 💙
It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.–Charles Darwin