40 Data Scientists schooled on solving dev’t problems

Forty varsity students and professionals from around Africa specialised in Statistics, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have, since Monday, 24 February, been taking part in the Big Data for Development Short Course Program (BD4D-SCP). For five days, Dr. Dustan Matekenya, Data Scientist at the World Bank schooled participants on the basics of processing large scale datasets and on building machine learning models using “Python”. Organised by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences- Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS – NEI), the capacity building topics included “Advanced Concepts in Python”, “Python for Data Science”, “Big Data Processing”, and “Machine Learning (ML) in Python”.…