General Chair: Ciira Maina
Program Chair: Ernest Mwebaze
Call for Registration
The workshop will be organized around paper presentations and interactive panel discussions. We invite participants interested in presenting work at the workshop to submit a short abstract describing the application of data science methods to problems relevant to Africa. The submission should be limited to a 3-page (max) submission following this LaTeX template. You will be notified whether your work will be presented orally or as a poster. We are interested in work addressing low-resourced developing world challenges in the broad areas of:
- Data Science for the Sustainable Development Goals
- Healthcare
- Agriculture
- Wildlife conservation
- Disaster response
- Geospatial modelling
- Telecommunications data modelling
- Economic monitoring
During the panel discussions, we will unite a wide range of stakeholders, including data scientists, representatives from government, development practitioners and the private sector; this will provide a unique setting in which innovative solution-driven ideas can thrive.
Participants will also develop a framework for attracting young African talent, mentors and researchers from academia, the public sector and the private sector in Africa to engage in activities geared towards harnessing big data and real-time analytics for the public good.
Workshop programme outline:
DSA 2018 Nyeri Workshop Day 1
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Presentation |
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08:00-09:00 |
Arrival and Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Workshop Opening |
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09:30-10:00 |
Keynote 1 |
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10:00-10:30 |
Keynote 2 |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:20-11:40 |
Talk 2 - Towards 2050: Big data-driven decision support in integrated smallholder farming systems |
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11:40-12:00 |
Talk 3 - How do models learn: understanding feature importance in image classification models |
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12:00-12:20 |
Talk 4 - Transfer learning for mobile phone credit scoring |
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12:20-13:00 |
Panel 1 - Data for public good |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Break & group photo |
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14:00-14:30 |
Keynote 3 - TBA |
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14:30-14:50 |
Talk 5 - TBA |
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14:50-15:10 |
Talk 12 - Mapping exposure of cattle to Rift Valley fever virus along their migratory routes |
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15:10-15:30 |
Talk 7 - Machine learning approach to reducing student dropout rate |
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15:30-16:00 |
Tea Break |
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16:00-16:40 |
Panel 2 - Building local capacity - Africa Data Science Community |
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16:40-17:00 |
Day 1 Wrap-up |
DSA 2018 Nyeri Workshop Day 2
Time |
Presentation |
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08:00-09:00 |
Arrival and Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Announcements & logistics |
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09:30-10:00 |
Keynote 4 |
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10:00-10:30 |
Keynote 5 |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-11:20 |
Talk 8 - A real-time simplified smart agriculture system for small-scale greenhouse farming |
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11:20-11:40 |
Talk 9 - Data-driven patient diagnosis with Dr. Elsa |
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11:40-12:00 |
Talk 10 - Air quality monitoring |
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12:00-12:30 |
Panel 3 - Applications of data science in government |
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12:30-12:40 |
Talk 11 - DeKUT IoT and Data Science Projects |
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12:40-13:00 |
Spotlight talks |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00-14:30 |
Keynote 5 - TBA |
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14:30-14:50 |
Talk 12 - Converging blockchain and next-gen AI technologies for biomedical research |
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14:50-15:10 |
Talk 13 - Why Data Science is so important in Off-Grid Solar |
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15:10-15:30 |
Tea Break |
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16:00-16:20 |
Panel 4 - Lessons from DSA 2018 |
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16:20-16:30 |
Closing |