As part of the Deep Learning Indaba, we have gotten a dataset of the accepted papers from NIPS 2006 – 2016 and countries of corresponding authors. We wanted to understand the scale of the non-participation of countries/regions as well as …
Earlier in the 2017 I attended the UN Data Forum. Outside some oddities out of some of the things discussed at that conference (especially on Data and power dynamics, you can read a paper we wrote in response -> A critical …
I had the privilege to be able to present a number of topics at the African Institute for Mathematical Science’s Data Science workshop. I really enjoyed my time teaching, learning from the other speakers and meeting very talented students from …
First article in the DST Magazine ScienceStars (Aimed at informing youth on science matters) You can read it here.
This a developing posts. Version 0.5: Initial post. My SO and I have been having a lot of conversations about Fatal Crashes in South Africa. It is a very popular issue to discuss in South Africa especially during the festive …