Here is how much wealth there is in the world. In this article, I set out to improve on a MakeoverMonday challenge from an article titled “All the Worl’s Wealth in One Visual”. The original visualization is available here. The data for my analysis is hosted by MakeoverMonday on their data.world account here. I began by answering the question of…

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Transfer learning is the process of taking a model that has been trained on a dataset that is in a similar domain and then extending the model by adding layers to predict on your data. Models that have been trained (called pre-trained models) exist in the TensorFlow library. These are…

Find out what a container is, why you need one, and how to set one up using Docker. When I first started programming, life was much simpler. We picked a language like C or BASIC, wrote the code, and either sent the code over or compiled it and sent the binaries over. Back then, you were either using DOS or Linux, and all we needed to know was…

An Introduction to Machine Learning Using SQL in BigQuery — Data analytics involves analyzing raw data in order to extract valuable insights. These insights are frequently used as an aid in future decision making. The data that is analyzed is usually stored in one or more formats. These could be as flat files or text files (comma separated, tab separated)…

This is my first experience with the Google Launchpad Accelerator. The session is organized such that there are three high touch-points (HTP). This was the second HTP, and held in Nairobi over a period of five days. We made use of iHub, an amazing and lovely location in Nairobi.

This is a documentation of a lab presentation I made at Deep Learning IndabaX Nigeria, held on May 11th, 2019. This lab was on implementing a Convolutional Neural Network. For this lab, I implemented this paper in order to teach participants how to read through a paper, and also how…

After a Machine Learning focused meetup sometime around July of 2018, I got a message from my friend John, who co-leads Developer Circles Accra. In the message, he mentioned that someone from the school he finished from (Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology) was interested in speaking to me. A few…

Google Africa Launchpad Accelerator is in its third year of helping tech startups scale. This was my first time attending and mentoring at Launchpad, and it was a fulfilling adventure. The event lasted from April 1st to 5th, with usually two mentoring sessions per day. …

Nigerians are hopeless optimists. This article is not about optimism, it’s about the difference between satisfaction and dissatisfaction. I will not be defining those here, but I will be explaining something I learnt a while back. Some things are mutually exclusive, like heat and cold. You can’t be both hot…