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#6 - Dr Sebastian Raschka on how Africa can thrive in the age of AI and Data Science, AI and Data Science in the African educational ecosystem, how to write a good book on Machine Learning, and so on!


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Welcome, listener! In this episode, we had an enjoyable conversation with Dr Sebastian Raschka. This episode is packed with a lot of expert insights from Dr Sebastian on;

⚫ How he was able to come up with the idea of writing the best-selling Python Machine Learning book and what it takes to write a good book.

⚫ How to learn Machine Learning and the various ways to contribute to open source early on in your career.

⚫ How Universities in Africa can successfully adopt Data Science and AI to their educational curriculum, and how they can skill-up their lecturers and professors in AI and Data Science.

⚫ How small research labs in Africa just starting out can contribute something worthwhile to the ML community.

⚫ His advice for people starting to apply AI and Machine Learning to solve society's most challenging problems.

⚫ Progress and promise of Deep Learning and AI in Computational Biology, graph neural networks, and all other exciting areas.

⚫ The things that are changing in the fields of Machine Learning and AI in the next 3 years and the qualities you will need to become a world-class researcher in the fields of AI and Machine Learning.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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>  LinkedIn

>  Twitter

>  Website

> Learn from his workshop with our AI community on "Main Developments and Technology Trends in Data Science, ML and AI" here.

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> Support the community's efforts by getting your copy of the best-selling Python Machine Learning through this affiliate link.

> Zindi.africa (Africa's Online Data Science Competition Platform).

> Dr Sebastian's Open Source Machine Learning software MLExtend.

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