[Chicago] Data Science Africa 2016 recommends Python for Machine Learning and Data Science workshops!

[Valentina Kibuyaga]

http://www.datascienceafrica.org/dsa2016/
ambulance - Data Science Africa 2016<http://www.datascienceafrica.org/dsa2016/>
www.datascienceafrica.org
In the tradition of previous AfricaDataScience workshops, a summer school on machine learning and data science will be held prior to the main workshop.




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 sources.

Data science seeks to exploit advances in machine learning and statistics to make sense of the growing amounts of data available from various sources.


Summer School on Machine Learning and Data Science
Dates: June 27th - 29th 2016
Venue: College of Computing and Information Science - Makerere University


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.  To benefit from this course participants are encouraged to have some background in programming particularly programming with Python.


Thank you ChiPy team for all you do!


Valentina Kibuyaga

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From: Chicago <chicago-bounces+namusoke=hotmail.com at python.org> on behalf of Jerry Dumblauskas <jdumblauskas at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 11:34 AM
To: The Chicago Python Users Group
Subject: Re: [Chicago] Illinois Campaign for Political Reform part time role

any takers here?

thx

Jerry

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Jerry Dumblauskas <jdumblauskas at gmail.com<mailto:jdumblauskas at gmail.com>> wrote:
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).

This role is more web dev.  In short, the want this site
http://www.ilcampaign.org/ilvoterproject/

to look like

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/10/upshot/voting-habits-turnout-partisanship.html

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.

The are getting a new data file next week, and want to get going ASAP!

This is really a part time web, data science, visualization gig -- and has to potential to be long term.

If interested, contact me off list (jdumblauskas at gmail.com<mailto:jdumblauskas at gmail.com>) and I can get your resume over.

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).

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.

thx

Jerry

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