In the tradition of previous Data Science Africa events, a summer school on machine learning and data science was held prior to the main workshop. This summer school targeted graduate students, researchers, and professionals working with large amounts of data or unique datasets. The DSA 2023 Kigali Summer School was hosted by the University of Rwanda in Kigali from 8th to 10th May 2023.
The summer school included end-to-end tutorial sessions from professionals who guided participants through both introductory and advanced lectures in data science and machine learning. In addition, there were moderate to advanced practical and tutorial sessions where participants got hands-on experience wrangling and cleaning datasets, as well as applying cutting-edge machine learning techniques to derive insights from data.
To ensure participants would benefit from the summer school, they were required to be well-versed in the basics of the technologies and programming languages used during the course. Specifically, participants were expected to have sufficient foundational skills in Python programming, Data Science, and Machine Learning.
Participants were asked to download the corresponding notebook, complete the exercises, and then fill out the registration form that required uploading the ZIP file of the completed notebook.