Opportunities at 2021 AI Bootcamp
Happy New Month - Rank among the top 400 Data Scientists in Africa!
Hi there,
Happy New Month!
Welcome to the first week in the month of October 2021. We hope you had an amazing weekend and also bonded well with family and friends. As a community, we are very keen on keeping you informed with the latest updates within and outside the community, following through with your learning development, and keeping you informed with the latest scholarship and internship opportunities too.
Please do well to share this piece of good news with friends and colleagues when you receive it.
Qualification Hackathon is Live!
The 2021 AI Bootcamp hackathon is LIVE! Join the competition and rank in the top 400 to join the best-of-the-best across Africa to participate in the 2021 AI Bootcamp.
Details to join are on the form submission page.
Find hackathon resources here
Find hackathon starter notebook here
Join the action on Social Media and generate your #Hack display picture here
Hashtag: #AIBootcamp2021
Opportunities at the AI Bootcamp this year include:
Top 400 hackers get seats at the AI Bootcamp
Top 10 Female & Male Hackers will have the opportunity to compete for a 2 million Naira prize at the Bootcamp.
Access to learning and be mentored by World-Class experts
Access to Scholarships, Internships, Job Opportunities, Research Collaboration, Startup Building, and many more
Have fun! Everyone is a winner
Win a Poster Award at the 2021 AI Bootcamp
We seek authors to submit as posters: research, products, projects and concepts solving local problems with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
This event is an opportunity for you to showcase your AI & Data Science research, products, or projects at the 2021 AI Bootcamp Poster Session for the chance to win poster awards!
Submission Deadline: 16 October 2021
Acceptance notification: 20 October 2020
AI Community Holds 2nd Office Hour Chats
Data Science Nigeria AI Community held its second session of the Office hour chats on Friday 24th September 2021. Every Friday, the community runs voice and video open house chat sessions on its Telegram platform to discuss events in the community, answer questions and discuss emerging topics as well.
Hosted by Amina Rufai, some of the topics discussed at the open house session include;
How to create Kaggle and Zindi Accounts
How to download datasets
How to generate submission files for Competitions
Data Science Nigeria Launches Nigeria’s 1st AI Startup Incubation Program
Data Science Nigeria has launched Nigeria’s 1st AI Startup Incubation program. Please visit bit.ly/DSNAISSVideo to watch the recorded video of the AI Startup Summit. Find more details on the AI Start Lab here.
Lead a DSN AI+ Community in your Campus/City
Are you passionate about building communities? If yes, then quickly send in your application.
We seek passionate and skilled AI+ members to lead AI+ Communities in cities and campuses across Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Katsina, Nasarawa, Somoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara states.
Give 24 Hours In 2022 to Build Africa’s AI Talents
We seek experts in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and associated specializations, to gift a minimum of 2 hours in a month over a 12 month period to support our 1 million AI talent vision by:
Facilitating live or pre-recorded class sessions
Providing hands-on project work-through
Supporting academic research paper writing
Guiding and partnering on Kaggle/Zindi projects
Experts are needed across the world to teach and mentor in any of these languages: English, French, Arabic, and Portuguese.
DSN AI+ Community on Telegram
Do not miss any discussions, events or weekly office hour chats. Joining the DSN AI+ Community Telegram Group and be more updated about our events and the latest happenings within and outside the community.
Submit your questions here
Technical Reads
XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System
Abstract
Tree boosting is a highly effective and widely used machine learning method. In this paper, we describe a scalable end-to-end tree boosting system called XGBoost, which is used widely by data scientists to achieve state-of-the-art results on many machine learning challenges. We propose a novel sparsity-aware algorithm for sparse data and a weighted quantile sketch for approximate tree learning. More importantly, we provide insights on cache access patterns, data compression, and sharding to build a scalable tree boosting system. By combining these insights, XGBoost scales beyond billions of examples using far fewer resources than existing systems.
Hyperparameter Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms: Theory and Practice
Abstract
Machine learning algorithms have been used widely in various applications and areas. To fit a machine learning model into different problems, its hyperparameters must be tuned. This survey paper will help industrial users, data analysts, and researchers to better develop machine learning models by identifying the proper hyperparameter configurations effectively
Scholarship and other Opportunities
The Government of Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme 2022 (Fully Funded to Japan)
2021 Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) Graduate Tech Academy Programme for Nigerian graduates.
AfricaLics Visiting PhD Fellowships 2022 for African PhD Students (Fully Funded to Nairobi, Kenya)
2022 World Bank Group Winter Internship Program (Paid Internship)
Internet Society Foundation Launches Grant Program BOLT to boost Internet Access around the World. Apply
Jobs
Head of Product Design at Andela. Apply
Project Manager-Process Automation at Schneider Electric. Apply
Nigeria Deputy Country Director at One Acre Fund. Apply
Join our community!
We can’t wait to have you! To join the general Community Discussion Group on Telegram:
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