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In the tradition of previous AfricaDataScience workshops, a summer school on machine learning and data science will be held prior to the main workshop.</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The last few years have witnessed an explosion in the quantity and variety of data available in Africa, produced either as a by-product of digital services, from sensors or measuring devices, satellites and from many other
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<p>Data science seeks to exploit advances in machine learning and statistics to make sense of the growing amounts of data available from various sources. </p>
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Summer School on Machine Learning and Data Science</div>
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/*color: #e6e6e6*/">Dates: June 27<sup>th</sup> - 29<sup>th</sup> 2016</div>
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Venue: College of Computing and Information Science - Makerere University </div>
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<p><span>In the tradition of previous AfricaDataScience workshops, a summer school on machine learning and data science will be held prior to the main workshop. This summer school will target graduate students, researchers and professionals working with huge
amounts of data or unique datasets. <span>To benefit from this course participants are encouraged to have some background in programming particularly programming with
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Python. </span></span> </span><br>
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<p><span>Thank you ChiPy team for all you do!</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Chicago <chicago-bounces+namusoke=hotmail.com@python.org> on behalf of Jerry Dumblauskas <jdumblauskas@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 11:34 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chicago] Illinois Campaign for Political Reform part time role</font>
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<div dir="ltr">any takers here?
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Jerry Dumblauskas <span dir="ltr">
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<div>The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform wants to add another dev to do some work (the last Chipy member placed is still there doing a great job on the sunshine site).</div>
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<div>This role is more web dev. In short, the want this site</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ilcampaign.org/ilvoterproject/" target="_blank">http://www.ilcampaign.org/ilvoterproject/</a></div>
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<div>to look like</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/10/upshot/voting-habits-turnout-partisanship.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/10/upshot/voting-habits-turnout-partisanship.html</a></div>
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<div>The site is running on PHP for Wordpress. The person who comes on can implement in that, or migrate to the main site (which is Python powered). It is really up to you.</div>
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<div>The are getting a new data file next week, and want to get going ASAP!</div>
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<div>This is really a part time web, data science, visualization gig -- and has to potential to be long term.</div>
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<div>If interested, contact me off list (<a href="mailto:jdumblauskas@gmail.com" target="_blank">jdumblauskas@gmail.com</a>) and I can get your resume over.</div>
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<div>The people who sent in resumes for the first role, if still interested, can also put their hat in for this role as well (just let me know).</div>
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<div>Since this is a non profit -- we are not taking a referral fee (like last time), but just trying to get a good python dev in doing some great work.</div>
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