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  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graphic

    Community Builder (Machine Learning)

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    - Present 2 years

    Science and Technology

  • Global AI Hub Graphic

    Thought Leader(Machine learning)

    Global AI Hub

    - 1 year 10 months

    Science and Technology

  • AdoraHack Graphic

    Data Community Moderator

    AdoraHack

    - 1 year

    Science and Technology

    - Welcoming, inspiring, and empowering learners to improve their tech skills by facilitating positive community interactions.

    - I moderate the discussions to ensure compliance with the rules, deal with problematic users, and help to keep your company informed of the overall trend of comments and conversations that community members are having. 

    - I respond and give timely answers, resources across data science, data engineering, data analysis and machine learning.

    - Support…

    - Welcoming, inspiring, and empowering learners to improve their tech skills by facilitating positive community interactions.

    - I moderate the discussions to ensure compliance with the rules, deal with problematic users, and help to keep your company informed of the overall trend of comments and conversations that community members are having. 

    - I respond and give timely answers, resources across data science, data engineering, data analysis and machine learning.

    - Support data scientists, data engineers and machine-learning engineers in an online community.

  • EuroPython Graphic

    Event Remote Operator

    EuroPython

    - 2 months

    Science and Technology

    - Monitor & moderated speakers.

  • Youth Alliance for Reporting with Data  Graphic

    Data Community Advocate

    Youth Alliance for Reporting with Data

    - 1 year

    Economic Empowerment

    YARD Initiative is a non-profit organisation with the mission to provide data reports on the Sustainable Development Goals, Targets and Indicators, in order to support founders, impact investors and key stakeholders to track and evaluate progress locally, nationally and internationally.

    • At YARD, My goal is to ensure people are been taught data science and its importance by collaborating and working with my team.

Publications

  • African AI Community Discovery(Newsletter 4)

    Substack

    Increased to :

    - 44 Countries.
    - 8 US States.

    Where the top countries (subscribers) are:

    - Nigeria.
    - Kenya.
    - India.
    - Ghana.
    - South Africa.
    - Uganda.
    - US.
    - United Kingdom


    in 5 days of sending out the newsletter through the mail and It has gotten over 1400 views, 1200 reads and extra 180 subscribers.


    The goal has always been expanding to every country in Africa and extending to other continents in the world.

    See publication
  • The Nitty-Gritty of Data Engineering with Luca Zanna

    Spotify- Anchor- Apple Podcast

    I was a co-host for this podcast session.

    We talked about the Nitty-Gritty of data engineering where we addressed the following:

    - The important tools that one should be familiar with as a data engineer, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and SQL. Understanding these tools is critical for success in the field.

    - We explored the key priorities of a data engineer, such as data integration, data quality, and data architecture, and how these priorities differ from those of other…

    I was a co-host for this podcast session.

    We talked about the Nitty-Gritty of data engineering where we addressed the following:

    - The important tools that one should be familiar with as a data engineer, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and SQL. Understanding these tools is critical for success in the field.

    - We explored the key priorities of a data engineer, such as data integration, data quality, and data architecture, and how these priorities differ from those of other roles in the data industry and require specific skills and knowledge.

    - We compared the differences between transitioning to a data engineering role from an analyst position versus from a software engineer role.

    - We discussed strategies for kickstarting a data engineering journey.

    Other authors
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  • An Expert Guide to Building a Scalable Data Community for Engineers, Analysts and Scientists

    GeekCulture

    Learn the step-by-step approach to building a scalable data community of data engineers, data analysts, machine learning engineers and analytics engineers around a product from top data community experts.

    I was involved heavily in community-building in the data analysis, data engineering and machine learning space from the African Data Community Newsletter, Data Community Africa, Lagos MLOps community, and currently Pycon Africa.

    I felt the need to put together a write-up on this…

    Learn the step-by-step approach to building a scalable data community of data engineers, data analysts, machine learning engineers and analytics engineers around a product from top data community experts.

    I was involved heavily in community-building in the data analysis, data engineering and machine learning space from the African Data Community Newsletter, Data Community Africa, Lagos MLOps community, and currently Pycon Africa.

    I felt the need to put together a write-up on this as I also felt it is something barely written or talked about in the data space, but its need keeps growing from individuals to companies.

    For whom is this article?
    - Entry — Level, experienced developer advocates, and community managers interested in building and managing data communities.
    - Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers.
    - Founders, CEOs, data product managers, and companies who are interested in building or managing data communities around a product in data engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics space.

    What will we learn?
    - A typical prototype on how to build and foster great data Communities: best practices from three data community experts.

    - The Community Builder ToolKit: Software Tools that help data community building and management easier.

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  • Data Community As A Service(Part 1)

    TowardsAI

    This article is for:

    - Technical and non-technical data professionals.
    - Data enthusiasts who are interested in joining data communities to connect with other data practitioners and to get a clear path in their data careers.
    - Data professionals looking for the best data communities to join with like minds.

    What you will learn:

    - Data Community As A Service.
    - The benefit of the data community to a data enthusiast or practitioner.
    - List of top data communities…

    This article is for:

    - Technical and non-technical data professionals.
    - Data enthusiasts who are interested in joining data communities to connect with other data practitioners and to get a clear path in their data careers.
    - Data professionals looking for the best data communities to join with like minds.

    What you will learn:

    - Data Community As A Service.
    - The benefit of the data community to a data enthusiast or practitioner.
    - List of top data communities for data enthusiasts, professionals, and their specific impact.

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  • Democratizing data knowledge and community building in Africa

    Keycut Podcast

    As an Invitee to the Keycut Podcast, I shared my community experience on:

    - How I got interested in the community through GDG Devfest Lagos
    - AI Plus AAU
    - DatafestAfrica as a co-founder and community lead
    - MLOps Community Lagos as an organizer.
    - A data scientist at CBB Analytics.

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  • A structured data career leading to a job with Matt Blasa

    Spotify

    In this episode, we have a fantastic discussion with Matthew Blasa (Data Scientist @ Home Depot) about one of the most asked questions: How to get a data job? Coming from Matthew's experience, we would explore the possibility of how to secure a data job and various tips you don't want to miss!

    Other authors
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  • 3rd Inter quartile Newsletter

    Getrevue

    This month you will find ADC Newsletter:
    - Sponsorship.
    💥👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Data communities and events.
    🚞💵 AI startup News.
    ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻 Technical Articles.
    🥰 Featured Videos.
    ✍🏼 Featured Tweets.
    👨🏿‍🤝‍👨🏿Jobs and opportunities.

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  • Slik-Wrangler Documentation

    Gitbook

    Slik-wrangler is a data to modeling tool that helps data scientists navigate the issues of basic data wrangling and preprocessing steps.

    As the Technical Documentation lead to this open-source library, I'm currently revamping & building better documentation following the best practices.

    Other authors
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  • A Prelude to Data Science & Machine Learning with Javascript

    Published on Geek Culture

    In this Article, I gave a classical introduction to JavaScript libraries for data science and machine learning, data visualization, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision. I pointed materials to get started with using Javascript for data science.

    I explained how the future of machine learning is Javascript.

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  • MLOps 101 - A chat with Engatica

    Engatica

    In this episode of the engatica interview series, I talked about the importance of MLOps and tells us what is the significance of Open Source ML models in the industry today.

    I talked about:

    - Artificial intelligence.
    - Open-source.
    - MLOps.
    - Community.

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  • Second Inter - quartile Newsletter

    Getrevue

    In this issue...

    I wrote about the current:

    - Community News in the Africa Data space.
    - Featured technical articles on Data Science, Machine learning, NLP and MLOps
    - Open tools & contributions.
    - Africa AI Startup News.
    - The African Data Twitter community and featured video.

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  • Validating your machine learning models & data with minimal effort using DeepChecks

    MLOps New York

    I gave a talk at MLOps World New York as the first-ever African to speak at MLOps world New York, where I talked about validating your machine learning models & data with minimal effort using DeepChecks


    - What is Deepchecks?
    - When should I use Deepchecks?
    - Deepchecks validation structure.
    - When should I validate?
    - A practical scenario on how to validate your data & ML models with Deepchecks

    See publication
  • MLOps Exploration with Git & DVC for Machine learning project on DAGsHub

    SpeakerDeck/Open Source Festival

    - I gave a talk about DagsHub as a crucial open source data tool at the biggest open source conference in Africa. I'm the first person to give a talk at a conference about DVC & DagsHub open-source tools in Africa.

    The talk got featured on Iterative newsletter.

    See publication
  • First - Inter Quartile Newsletter

    GetRevue/African Data Community Newsletter

    Thia is my first Newsletter..

    I wrote about the current:

    - Community News in the Africa Data space.
    - Featured technical articles on Data Science, Machine learning, NLP and MLOps
    - Open tools & contributions.
    - Africa AI Startup News.
    - The African Data Twitter community and featured video.

    See publication
  • Tips & tricks to landing your first Data Science/Machine learning job

    YouTube

    I was invited to a Data Science youtube channel by a Data Scientist at Benshi ai to talk about the tips and tricks to landing your first Data Science/Machine learning Engineer Job as a newbie in the field.

    One of the reasons why we decided to address this issue was because it is one of the most challenging problem beginners face in the field.

    This compelled us to address this issue as experienced Data Scientist talking from a practical perspective.

    STATISTICS
    - 41 mins…

    I was invited to a Data Science youtube channel by a Data Scientist at Benshi ai to talk about the tips and tricks to landing your first Data Science/Machine learning Engineer Job as a newbie in the field.

    One of the reasons why we decided to address this issue was because it is one of the most challenging problem beginners face in the field.

    This compelled us to address this issue as experienced Data Scientist talking from a practical perspective.

    STATISTICS
    - 41 mins video length.
    - Over 300 views.
    - Over 45 likes.

    Other authors
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  • Mental Health for Software Developers and Data Practitioners

    Google slide

    This is my slide for a physical tech-event (GDG DEVFEST ABEOKUTA 2021), Where I gave a talk as an invited Speaker about the importance and reasons for maintaining mental health for all Software Developers and Data Practitioners.

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  • 6 productivity tips for beginner data scientists

    Published on TowardsAI

    What inspired me to write about this topic is the fact that a lot of beginners reach out to me for questions like:

    - What are the things I need to become a good data scientist?

    - How can I improve myself as an absolute beginner?

    In this Article, I explained six important productivity tips to improve yourself as a beginner,intermediate , junior, undergraduate, or aspiring data scientist.

    This are tips that will fast track productivity in your data science journey as…

    What inspired me to write about this topic is the fact that a lot of beginners reach out to me for questions like:

    - What are the things I need to become a good data scientist?

    - How can I improve myself as an absolute beginner?

    In this Article, I explained six important productivity tips to improve yourself as a beginner,intermediate , junior, undergraduate, or aspiring data scientist.

    This are tips that will fast track productivity in your data science journey as a beginner.

    STATISTICS:
    - Over 1.1k views
    - 4hrs LIFETIME MEMBER READING TIME.
    - 4mins AVERAGE READING TIME
    - Over 300 claps 👏
    - 8 minutes Article (Over 1200 words)

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  • Exploratory Data Analysis Demystified with FIFA 21(Part 2)

    Published on Geek Culture

    After writing the first article, I thought about it not everybody understands statistics or gets insights from statistical tables at a glance to some this might be confusing and might lead to plaintiff about the vagueness of the analysis. I explained Exploratory Data Analysis with Indepth Data visualisation with Python.

    STATISTICS:
    - Over 2.1K views
    - 3hrs 15 mins LIFETIME MEMBER READING TIME.
    - 4mins AVERAGE READING TIME
    - Over 235 claps 👏
    - 16 minutes Article (Over…

    After writing the first article, I thought about it not everybody understands statistics or gets insights from statistical tables at a glance to some this might be confusing and might lead to plaintiff about the vagueness of the analysis. I explained Exploratory Data Analysis with Indepth Data visualisation with Python.

    STATISTICS:
    - Over 2.1K views
    - 3hrs 15 mins LIFETIME MEMBER READING TIME.
    - 4mins AVERAGE READING TIME
    - Over 235 claps 👏
    - 16 minutes Article (Over 3200 words)

    See publication
  • Exploratory Data Analysis Expounded with FIFA 21(Part 1)

    Published on Towards AI

    In this Article, I gave an explanation using Exploratory Data Analysis to give answer to things I was curious about while Playing FIFA 2021.

    The motive is to carry out statistical analysis and generate insights like a pro with python using FIFA 21 as a case study.

    STATISTICS:
    - Over 2.1K views
    - 10hrs LIFETIME MEMBER READING TIME.
    - 4mins AVERAGE READING TIME
    - Over 365 👏claps
    - 11 minute Article (Over 2500 words )

    - Article of the month & Featured on Black…

    In this Article, I gave an explanation using Exploratory Data Analysis to give answer to things I was curious about while Playing FIFA 2021.

    The motive is to carry out statistical analysis and generate insights like a pro with python using FIFA 21 as a case study.

    STATISTICS:
    - Over 2.1K views
    - 10hrs LIFETIME MEMBER READING TIME.
    - 4mins AVERAGE READING TIME
    - Over 365 👏claps
    - 11 minute Article (Over 2500 words )

    - Article of the month & Featured on Black in Data blog with lots of amazing reviews.

    See publication
  • WeboDoc: A Web Based Application for Classifying Pneumonia and Malaria Infected Images

    Published on ResearchGate

    In this paper, we trained two convolutional neural network on Malaria and Pneumonia images and embed it into a web application that can run locally. This application can help health practitioners to quickly detect pneumonia and malaria infected patients. Malaria images are in the form of microscopic slide smears while pneumonia images are from chest Xrays. We show that our application can be infused into any hospital’s existing system and can be useful in areas with scarce health personnel and…

    In this paper, we trained two convolutional neural network on Malaria and Pneumonia images and embed it into a web application that can run locally. This application can help health practitioners to quickly detect pneumonia and malaria infected patients. Malaria images are in the form of microscopic slide smears while pneumonia images are from chest Xrays. We show that our application can be infused into any hospital’s existing system and can be useful in areas with scarce health personnel and limited resources.

    Other authors
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Projects

  • Iterative Monthly Newsletter

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  • Movie Recommender Application

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    Content-based movie recommendation system that recommend movies to a user by using the similarity of movies. This application provides human sentiments to movies, the ratings, about the movie and gives a detailed description of the main character in the movie.

    ✅ Tech stack!o

    * HTML* CSS * JAVASCRIPT * FLASK *HEROKU *PYTHON

    See project
  • Hepatitis B Fatality Predictor Application

    -

    I worked on a predictive analytics project that predicts the chances of survival of a patient having Hepatitis B built with python.

    This is an Application of Machine Learning in Healthcare. This application can help health practitioners with the prediction of a patient having Hepatitis B, can be infused into any hospital’s existing system and can be useful in areas with scarce health personnel and limited resources.

    See project
  • WhatsAppChat Analyzer

    -

    This App analyzes WhatsApp group chat messages or individual chat, and obviously anyone with a WhatsApp account can make use of the app to analyze their chat.

    ✅ Tech stack!

    * Wordcloud * Streamlit * Plotly * Matplotlib * Pandas *streamlit-share *Heroku

    Other creators
    See project
  • Covid Surveillance Application

    -

    The goal of this project is to create a COVID-19 Surveillance System that can be used to monitor the burden of COVID over time, detect changes in COVID occurrence (e.g., outbreaks), determine risk factors for COVID and populations at greatest risk so that appropriate action can be taken to either prevent or stop further spread of COVID. A useful Application of Data Science/Machine learning for Problem- Solving in Healthcare industry.

    This will give insight on :
    -Top & Least countries…

    The goal of this project is to create a COVID-19 Surveillance System that can be used to monitor the burden of COVID over time, detect changes in COVID occurrence (e.g., outbreaks), determine risk factors for COVID and populations at greatest risk so that appropriate action can be taken to either prevent or stop further spread of COVID. A useful Application of Data Science/Machine learning for Problem- Solving in Healthcare industry.

    This will give insight on :
    -Top & Least countries with Covid-19 cases.

    - Time Series transition of Covid Cases.

    - Total Number of Recovered, Death, and Present cases.

    ✅ Tech stack!

    * React * Material UI * CSS * Javascript * Firebase

    See project
  • Bible Text Analytics Application

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    A bible app with that has features like part of speech bible text tag,Keywords, counts of word and graphs of word count.A useful Application of Machine Learning to the Religious Organization Industry

    Tech stack!

    * Wordcloud * Streamlit * Plotly * Matplotlib * Pandas *altair *neatext *streamlit-share *Heroku

    See project
  • Customer-support sentiment application

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    The goal of this project is to visualize various twitter sentiment and determine overall opinion on US Airlines. An application of Data Science/Machine Learning for problem-solving in the Aviation Industry.

    See project
  • Big Fashion Sales Interactive( Excel Dashboard )

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    An Interactive Fashion Sales dashboard built with Microsoft Excel. I built 2 different Dashboard, Where I Use the Kiss method for the 2nd dashboard and follow Appropriate Data visualization rule to Make Dashboard Easier to understand at a glance.

    Tools: Microsoft Excel, Google Slide.

    See project
  • Barbershop Website

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    The goal of the project was to make locating a barbing salon in the subject area(Orimerunmu, Ogun state) so easy and to reduce unnnecessary queuing/waiting time of customer's in the barbing salon.

    ✅ Tech stack!

    * HTML * CSS * Netlify

    See project
  • TheOjoEmmanuel Photography Website

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    A website that has all information about a Nigrian Born Based Photographer in order to make clients engage with him and build trust with him in photography.

    ✅ Tech stack!
    * HTML
    * CSS
    * Javascript

    See project
  • Africa Mobile Phone(Tableau Dashboard)

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    Data visualisation with Tableau

    See project
  • CHUKWUDI MEGASTORE ANALYSIS & PRESENTATION

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    The goal is to provide analysis and Insights that make Mr Chukwudi understand what type of product, market clusters and supermarket type (location, age, size) which will give more margin as he plans to expand to more cities in Nigeria.

    Tech stack!
    * NUMPY* *MATPLOTLIB * PANDAS * SEABORN* SCIKIT-LEARN* GOGGLE-SLIDE/MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

    See project

Honors & Awards

  • AWS Machine Learning Community Builder

    AWS

  • Machine Learning Thought leader

    Global AI Hub

  • Promising data scientist/engineer category in Nigeria

    Techtrend Africa.

    This is the first-ever tech personality award in Nigeria. Part of the goal is to appreciate and raise awareness about technological experts affecting the ecosystem.

    Where I was nominated as a promising Data Scientist in the Data Science & Engineer Category in 🇳🇬 Nigeria.

  • Article of the Month

    Towards AI

    I was featured on Towards AI for Article of the month (A Data Science publication in Pennsylvania) He wrote an article titled "Exploratory Data Analysis Expounded with FIFA 21(Part 1)" This article received a lot of positive reviews across readers from different part of the world which was also featured by BlackInData.

  • Featured on Official Streamlit Weekly Discussion(II)

    Streamlit

    I was featured on Official Streamlit Weekly Discussion for the 2nd time in the Science and technology section for an End-to-End Machine Learning Medical application I worked on with Streamlit.

  • Featured on official streamlit weekly Discussion

    Streamlit

    A Machine learning End-to-End project I worked on was featured in Natural Language Processing Section on Streamlit weekly Discussion.

  • Top 2% for Data Science Nigeria Bootcamp Competition 2020

    Data Science Nigeria

    My Machine Learning Model was among the top useful model amidst 750 data scientists that predicts customer loan behavior for a Nigerian – based retail company.

  • Retina-AI Best Poster Award

    Data Science Nigeria

    My team in which I have active participation won the best poster where we showed that our application can be infused into any hospital’s existing system and can be useful in areas with scarce health personnel and limited resources.

Languages

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

  • Edo(Esan)

    Limited working proficiency

  • Yoruba

    Limited working proficiency

  • Creoles and pidgins, English-based

    Full professional proficiency

  • French

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • OSCAFEST(Open Source Africa)

    Member

    - Present

    This is an Open Source community for Africa that encourages contributing to open source, community engagement and so on in Africa 🌍

  • TowardsAI

    Contributing Writer.

    - Present

    TowardsAI is a world leading technology and Artificial intelligence publication platform. I write Data Science & Machine Learning related technical articles.

  • Datatech Space

    Top Contributor

    - Present

    DataTech Space (DTS) is an online community exclusive to individuals with an interest in any data-related field. This community was founded to provide a support system for budding data enthusiasts so they can connect with their peers and experienced professionals.

  • Data Science Nigeria

    Active Member

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    Data Science Nigeria is a non-profit organization registered as Data Scientists Network Foundation. vision is to develop Nigeria’s AI ecosystem and position the country as a world-class AI skill, research and outsourcing destination with opportunity to access 2-3% share of the estimated global Artificial Intelligence GDP contribution of up to $15.7 trillion by 2030.

  • NACOS(Nigeria Association of Computing Student)

    Member

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    Nigeria Association of Computer Science (NACOSS) with the backing of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) as its parent body. It provides avenues for students (in any IT related field) to highlight and champion issues of interest in a coordinated and organized manner.NACOS members (NACOSites) are students studying in tertiary institutions in computer-related disciplines including Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, etc.

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