Data Science Nigeria runs free boot-camp for young data scientists

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As part of its vision to make Nigeria the Data Science outsourcing hub for Africa before 2019 and create 1 million new jobs in the next ten years, Data Science Nigeria, is holding an extensive learning bootcamp between 20 and 22 January, in the Lekki axis of Lagos State. The bootcamp will address varying capacity gaps in Data science for beginners, intermediate and experts with specific focus on Machine learning, R statistics and programming/Python foradvanced data analytics.

Data Science Nigeria is a professional-led non-profit designed to train and mentor young Nigerians through face-to-face, virtual online classes, project-based support and holiday boot camps. The ultimate intent is to raise a special breed of data scientists and knowledge entrepreneurs who will set up data science based businesses and attract foreign exchange to the nation.

Data Science Nigeria is an initiative of MTN’s executive, Mr Bayo Adekanmbi, who previously served the company as the General Manager, Business Intelligence and Chief Marketing Officer before proceeding on a 15-month academic sabbatical for his PhD research on the use of data science for understanding consumer social consumption behaviour.

The bootcamp is also supported by Arise & OneFi, who are also providing internship opportunities for the best participants at the intensive training camp.

The boot camp will run as a regimented learning session and will include virtual classes with foreign-based data scientists, self-paced online certificated courses and face-to-face session by local experts in Machine learning, Statistics, Python and R.

Python Nigeria, a user-group that promotes Python computer programming language in Nigeria will facilitate some of the practical hands-on session on Python programming.

The free residential bootcamp comes with an intensive requirement. All the world-be participants are expected to complete a 12-hour course on IBM BigDataUniversity.com and submit their completion certificates to secure a placement.

 

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