Week 5: What Next?

Opportunities in Machine Learning and Data Science

1. Courses
   • Free machine learning courses from Google
   • Free deep learning course from Coursera
   • Free deep learning courses from fast.ai
   • Stanford’s Machine Learning course (financial aid available)
2. Annual Workshops and Summer Schools
   • Machine Learning Summer School
   • Data Science Africa
   • North African Summer School on Machine Learning
   • Deep Learning Indaba

In-Class Exercise: Today’s activity is an ideathon.

A hackathon is an intense 1 or 2 day event in which those working in tech (e.g. programmer, graphic designers, data scientists) work with domain experts to collaborate on software projects.

The goal of a hackathon is to create usable software or hardware with the goal of producing a functioning product by the end of the event. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, for example, on solving a single real-life problem.

Find a hackathon near you: https://www.hackathon.com

An ideathon is like a hackathon wherein the participants focus on outlining solutions to real-life problems without implementing the solutions. The goal of an ideathon is to produce a concrete plan of action for solving a real-life problem at the end of the event. Read the following document to prepare for the ideathon:

Ideathon Document