adooreLABS/wids-accra-meetup-2018

This repository contains resources for the Women in Data Science 2018 Accra Meetup # Women in Data Science Accra Meetup - Advanced Data Science Session Women in Data Science (WiDS) aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide and provide support to people interested in data science. During WiDS Accra, you will get the opportunity to learn about the latest data science related research and applications. This will be infused with some hands-on sessions where you would gain practical skills ## Content + Training Details + Session Outline + Session Requirements + Further Reading ## Training Details + Session Facilitators + Yvette Kondoh, Data Scientist, SuperFluid Labs + Richard Ackon, Machine Learning Engineer, Kudobuzz + David Selassie Opoku, Data Plumber, adooreLABS + Duration: 15.30 - 17:00 ## Session Outline Time | Session | Responsible ------|--------|---------- 15:30 - 15:35 | Introduction | Instructors 15:35 - 15:55 | Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) | Yvette Kondoh 15:55 - 16:15 | Model Building | Richard Ackon 16:15 - 16:20 | Hands-on Practice Overview | Instructors 16:20 - 16:50 | Hand-on Practice | Learners 16:50 - 17:00 | Questions & Closing | Instructors ## Setup ## Resources + Data Sets + Diabetes Data Set + Pima Indian Diabetes Data Sets + Tools + Python + Jupyter Notebooks + Pandas + Sci-Kit Learn + Numpy + Seaborn / Matplotlib ## Further Reading ### Articles + A Taxonomy of Data Science + NY Times Bits post on Looking to the Future of Data Science + Hanna Wallach's Medium post on Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences + Data Robot's post on A Primer on Deep Learning + Data Science Has Been Using Rebel Statistics for a Long Time ### Videos + Hilary Mason's Devs Love Bacon: Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less + Jeremy Howard's TED talk on The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn ### Data Sources + The Human Data Exchange + Open Data for Africa + Ghana Open Data Initiative + Africa Open Data + Hilary Mason's Bundle of Research-Quality Data …