Ai Kenya 2019 highlights
The space of Artificial Intelligence and robotics is underrepresented in Africa mainly due to resource limitations and skill gap. However, according to a research conducted by Alliance4AI, Africa’s young entrepreneurs and developers are rising above the resource constraints by adopting machine learning, …
No Human is Limited- Analysis of Eliud Kipchoge’s Ineos Challenge
Eliud Kipchoge proved No Human Is Limited when he became the first human in history to run a sub-two-hour marathon in the city of Vienna, Austria on the morning of 12th October 2019. Kipchoge ran the 42.195 KM distance in a remarkable …
Ai Kenya Cape to Nairo Datathon Event Highlights
Data science competitions and supporting platforms Such as Zindi have contributed immensely to the growth of data science and machine learning worldwide. They have created a space where state of the art machine learning algorithms can be tested and put into practice. …
Code Maktaba: Sendy Logistics challenge solution walkthrough in R by Wanjala Frida
Wanjala Fridah offers a solution walkthrough in R on the Sendy Logistics challenge currently hosted on Zindi ( http://bit.ly/sendychallenge). The resources being used in this tutorial can be found on http://bit.ly/datathon26 under the R folder. The following resources, frameworks have been highlighted …
Code Maktaba: Sendy Logistics challenge solution walkthrough in Python by Steven Simba
Steven Simba, one of the top data scientists on Zindi (http://zindi.africa/data_scientists ) offers a solution walkthrough in R on the Sendy Logistics challenge currently hosted on Zindi ( http://bit.ly/sendychallenge). The resources being used in this tutorial can be found on http://bit.ly/datathon26 under …
Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2019 State of the Nation Address, Most Positive
As the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhuru_Kenyatta, is charged with the responsibility of informing Kenyans about the progresses the government has made each year through the State of the Nation (SoN) addresses. He came to power in 2013 thus his first SoN …
Code Maktaba: Introducing R and R Studio by Kigen Tembu
This Episode of Code Maktaba by Kigen Tembu offers an introduction to R with a focus on the origin of the programming language, how to get started and basics on R studio. This session was recorded from the Fundamentals in R Code …
Code Maktaba: Data structures in R by Christopher Maronga
Christopher Maronga touches on data structures in R by covering factors, matrices, arrays and lists. This session was recorded from the Fundamentals in R Code Maktaba Workshop by Ai Kenya on June 15th 2019. The slides from this session can be accessed …
Winner Solution for Mtoto News Childline Kenya Call Volume Prediction Challenge
The objective of this competition by Zindi Africa was to create a forecast model to predict the number of incoming calls that Childline Kenya will receive per hour per day. This would help Childline Kenya manage its resources, staff, and their call …
Python for Vision and Detection- OpenCv Python
Welcome to the ultimate online course on Python for Computer Vision! Computer Vision is an AI based, that is, Artificial Intelligence based technology that allows computers to understand and label images. Its now used in Convenience stores, Driver-less Car Testing, Security Access …