Down the Meerkat Hole: Building a Data Science team to tackle social challenges!
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Vukosi Marivate, a PHD graduate from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/) will be making a presentation titled, Down the Meerkat Hole: A tale of building a Data Science team to tackle social challenges. You can view his profile here (http://www.vima.co.za/).
Unfortunately, Kennedy Mukuna (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennedymukuna) will not be able to make it tonight. Instead Johannes will give a hands-on intro to Julia (http://julialang.org). Those who want to follow along should bring their computers and preinstall Julia on them. Instructions can be found on julialang.org