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The Gradient Boost Newsletter
by TheGradientBoost
Learn more about Data Science in Africa thegradientboost.substack.com
Episodes
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Podcast: An NLP Project to detect deception in speech
The Gradient Boost is platform to help you learn, get upskilled and get tech jobs through building mentor guided projects. We partner with experienced professionals around the world (Data Scientists, Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Software Engineers) and companies to create projects on our...
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Complete a project through The Gradient Boost platform, get upskilled and get hired by Indicina (Engineering Manager)
The best way to learn, upskill yourself is through building real world projects. What if I told you building a real world project can also get you a job. The Gradient Boost has partnered with Indicina; a fintech using “advanced machine learning technology to unearth unique customer financial…
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Project Podcast: Building a price estimation software to predict the price of unreleased games
Hope you are having a great week. As a reminder, The Gradient Boost is a platform enabling users to learn, get upskilled and get tech jobs through building mentor guided projects simulating real world tasks. Our projects are created by a combination of experienced professionals in Data Science,...
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An Informal chat with Wale Akinfaderin: Data Scientist at AWS
We invited Wale Akinfaderin to an informal chat. Wale is a data scientist at Amazon Web Services. He was previously the lead data scientist at Duke Energy Corporation and holds a PhD in Physics from Florida State University. We invited some users on our platform and other guests to join the chat,...
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Partnership with the Port Harcourt School of AI Round Table
We recently spoke to Stephen Oladele, the dean of the Port Harcourt School of AI about our partnership to further our collective cause of enabling world-class data education for students looking to get into data science in Nigeria (and eventually Africa). We dove into detail regarding the...
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Weekend Workshop with Ephraim A. Ebong
Over the weekend we invited the Lead of Business Intelligence and Data Science at Custodian Investment (a publicly listed holding company operating in the insurance sector in Nigeria), Ephraim A Ebong to chat to some of our students about his journey into data science, including some of the...
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The Gradient Boost round table with the Assistant VP of Data Science at ABSA and the Chief Data Officer at Kobo360
We recently held a round table discussion between Dumebi Okwechime, the Chief Data Officer at Y-Combinator backed Kobo360 and Khanyisa Noganta, the Assistant Vice President of Data Science at ABSA (South Africa). The Gradient Boost team joined the round table to have a discussion on the role of...
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The Gradient Boost Podcast: Josh Ojo Aromukudu and our Imposter Syndrome
In this episode, we spoke to Josh, a junior data scientist part of Sanlam’s graduate program in South Africa. One major theme was imposter syndrome, something we can all relate to (yes, ALL). Our co-host for today is one of our students, Boipeo Motsosi. We got pretty personal about how self-doubt...
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The Gradient Boost Podcast Presents: Co-founder round-table
In this podcast we had a co-founder round-table with Emmanuel Sibanda, Jasmine Desvarieux and Vivian Opondoh (The Gradient Boost co-founders), one of our students from the May 2020 cohort, Ajibol Lawal and our advisor and investor Dumebi Okwechime, the Chief Decision Scientist at Renmoney. We…
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The Gradient Boost Podcast presents: A chat with the CTO of Niqao (Ghana), Kwadwo- Agyapon-Ntra
Some time ago we spoke to Kwadwo Agyapon-Ntra, he is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Niqao, an e-commerce in Ghana enabling users to pay for products in installments that recently raised a $100 000 in seed funding through Meltwater’s MEST program. Kwadwo has a background in Electrical…
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The Gradient Boost Podcast: An informal chat with the Head of Data Science and Analytics at Lulalend (a fintech in South Africa)
A few weeks ago, we had a chat with Karel Verhoeven, the Head of Data Science and Analytics at Lulalend, an SME financing startup in South Africa. We got to learn a bit more about projects his data science team works on, specifically touching on how they predict risk and determine whether to give...
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The Gradient Boost Podcast: Chatting with Chris Orwa, the Lead Data Scientist at I & M Bank in Kenya
We recently spoke to Chris Orwa. Chris is the Lead Data Scientist at I & M Bank in Kenya, an avid blogger and a freelance Data Journalist at Nation Media Group. We spoke to Chris about his ‘accidental’ journey into data science, data journalism, the value of data science in both large businesses...
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A chat with the Lead Data Analyst of Sparkle- Tayo, a digital bank in Nigeria about how they are using data to better understand customer behavior
Some time ago we spoke to Adetayo Kolade, the Lead Data Analyst at Sparkle.ng. One of our students, Akinloye, co-hosted this podcast. Sparkle is a digital bank in Nigeria focused on developing innovative features such as split payments to allow you to share bills, payment links that allow you to...
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An informal chat with Dumebi Okwechime, the Chief Decision Scientist at Renmoney about the Data Science landscape and scaling a Data Science team in Nigeria
We recently had an informal chat with Dumebi Okwechime, the Chief Decision Scientist at Renmoney. Dumebi previously led the Data Science team at Barclaycard and Infosys in the UK. In this chat we spoke about the data science landscape in Nigeria, getting into more detail about the challenges of...
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The Gradient Boost Podcast: Co-Founder round table
As a primer to launching our podcast we had an informal round-table between 3 of the co-founders of The Gradient Boost about our mission, our ecosystem, about ourselves and about The Gradient Boost. Our podcast will be about having conversations about all things data science related in Africa.…
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