AI Study Jam: Week 3 - Code into Intelligence

GDG Johannesburg

ML skills that make every developer more valuable. Whether you're building web apps, mobile experiences, cloud infrastructure, or AI systems - learn to handle messy data, build intelligent pipelines, and validate models that actually work in production. The same techniques powering Netflix recommendations can transform YOUR next project! Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/f2kjgkbz

May 8, 5:00 – 6:30 PM (UTC)

23 RSVP'd

Key Themes

AIKaggleMachine Learning

About this event

This week is all about improving ML workflows with practical tools and techniques:

• Missing data is handled using methods like imputation instead of dropping values.

• Imputation fills in missing values to keep datasets usable.

• Pipelines streamline the entire ML process by chaining preprocessing and modeling steps together, helping prevent data leakage.

• Validation techniques, like train/test splits and cross-validation, ensure your model performs well on unseen data.

These tools help build more reliable, efficient, and accurate machine learning models.


🎯 What You'll Learn:

•⁠ ⁠Handle messy data like a pro (missing values & categories)

•⁠ ⁠Validate models that actually work in production

•⁠ ⁠Build streamlined ML pipelines for your dev workflow


📚 Required: Intermediate ML (Kaggle) - https://www.kaggle.com/learn/intermediate-machine-learning 

 

Your laptop will also be handy😉


📘 Recommended: Hands-On ML Ch. 3-5, Scikit-learn Pipelines

🧪 Hands-On Practice:

•⁠ ⁠Create pipelines that fit your development stack

•⁠ ⁠Compare models to find what works for YOUR apps

Take Away:

•⁠ ⁠Working notebook with complete pipeline implementation

•⁠ ⁠Documentation to justify your approach to teammates

*Join developers from web, mobile, cloud & AI to build smarter applications together!*


Speakers

  • Samuel Oladejo

    Syft Analytics

    Software Engineer and GDG Organiser

  • Simphiwe Radebe

    Standard Bank South Africa

    Android Developer | GDG Organiser | Speaker |

Mentors

  • Lavisa Mlanzeli

  • Michelle Piliso

    Clowdy

    Technical Operations Manager | Google Developer Group Organiser

  • Lethabo Maza Nkwana

    University of Johannesburg & Shop Productions

    Student/ GDG Organiser / Director

Hosts

  • Lethabo Maza Nkwana

    University of Johannesburg & Shop Productions

    Student/ GDG Organiser / Director

  • Michelle Piliso

    Clowdy

    Technical Operations Manager | Google Developer Group Organiser

Organizers

  • Michelle Piliso

    Organiser

  • Lethabo Nkwana

    GDSC Organiser

  • Simphiwe Radebe

    Standard Bank

    Developer

  • lavisa mlanzeli

    Junior Software Developer at WeThinkCode_

  • Zethu Nkosi

    Software Engineering Student

  • Samuel Oladejo

    Xero

    Software Engineer

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