Dr Vukosi Marivate, ABSA UP Chair of Data Science, Data Science for Social Impact Research Group.  I started writing this post on my thoughts on Data Science and COVID-19 in South Africa while also co-organising and assisting at the International …

A few weeks in, Data Science thoughts on COVID-19 in SA Read more »

TLDR: We collected and collated data from the South African Department of Health [DoH] and National Institute for Communicable Diseases [NICD] statements and alerts. From there we built a dashboard that you can access at https://bitly.com/covid19za-dash. In this post, we …

A repo and dashboard for COVID-19 in South Africa Read more »

Through an NRF Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration grant, I was able to visit some collaborators in Sierra Leone. I got the opportunity to do 3 things.  Visiting Njala University I had a visit to Njala University to give 2 days …

Data Science & Salone - Visiting Sierra Leone Read more »

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. …

Advanced Reinforcement Learning & Data Science for Social Impact with Vukosi Marivate - TWiML Talk #193 [PODCAST] Read more »