SAS calls out gender inequality in Africa's STEM fields
Growth related to digital transformation on the continent must be inclusive, company asserts.
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Zindi launches data science recruitment platform
zindi.africa/jobs was introduced in response to a clear need from organisations operating in Africa.
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We all need to work to encourage girls to pursue careers in STEM
If you haven’t tried out STEM, give it a go and try a few courses – you might end up somewhere completely opposite to where you thought you would says Kelly Lu, Advanced Analytics and AI Practice Lead, SAS Africa.
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Yes, there’s disruption – but also, opportunity
SAS Country Manager, Akesh Lalla, urges you to take a different viewpoint of our current circumstances.
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SAS offers Africa's learners free access to e-learning portal
Students in Africa can access Software Certified Young Professionals portal.
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Mobilising data analytics to fight COVID-19
Data scientists and business analysts will have to adjust models to operate in ‘new normal’ advises SAS.
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Can Africa benefit from Europe’s digital future?
Janet Mackenzie, Partner and Head of Baker McKenzie’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Group outlines’ significance of EU Commission’s Data Strategy and AI White Paper.
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Companies should embrace, rather than avoid, open source software
We’re increasingly seeing analytical models being developed in open source, and it’s easy to understand why says Akesh Lalla, SAS Country Manager.
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Text analytics: The new data science frontier
Unstructured text is the single largest human-generated data source, and is growing at an incredible rate, says Melissa Jantjies, senior associate systems engineer at SAS.
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SAS targets open source opportunity
Company scheduled to launch new solution specifically targeted at 'non-SAS sites'.
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Operationalising AI and analytics in real world environments
SAS understands how important the `smart city' concept is, so it looked to the urban environment as a way to compose an example of taking AI and analytics into the real world.
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Former SAP man appointed as SAS country manager
Akesh Lalla will be responsible for expanding the company's outreach to unexplored market segments and driving its products and services.