Starting the year early, I had the privilege of hosting a session on Fairness and Transparency at the DALI meeting in George in January 2019. The session was co-organised with Moustapha Cisse. Motivation My personal motivations for the session was …
This week, I was in Gaborone Botswana at International Data Week Information on the session is below The use of Data Science approach to tackle social challenges has been receiving attention over the last few years. This entails using Machine …
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In this, the final show of our Deep Learning Indaba series, we speak with Vukosi Marivate, Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria and a co-organizer of the Indaba. My conversation with Vukosi fell into two distinct parts. …
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God And keep your face to the risin’ sun – Kanye West, Family Business In the previous posts I have covered a number of items, the last being particularly focused on growth. …
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Sun don’t shine in the shade – Kanye West, Waves Growth is not only for the students, but for the program itself and all those involved. In 2017, growth was definitely on the cards for all involved. It was a …
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