Njala host 1st 'Big Data' Seminar in Sierra Leone

Njala University host Sierra Leone’s first ‘Big Data’ Seminar at Njala University, Njala Campus on 4-5 November 2019.

Dr. Vukosi Marivate an expert in machine learning and data science from University of Pretoria, South Africa will lead a seminar on “Applied Data Science and Machine learning” for data analysts, university faculty, graduate students, academic and non academic researchers.

The objective of this two-day data science seminar is to train policy makers and data experts on new cutting edge tools and data analysis algorithms with focus on big data. The seminar will be of great value to future research collaborations in Science, Technology and Innovation.

The seminar will include lectures, interactive demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and discussions covering topics including:

· Data Science

· Natural Language Processing

· Visualizations for Data Science

· Machine Learning