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DS at UPData Science updates, in and around University of Pretoria. Made with ❤️ in Tshwane. This is an independent newsletter run by Dr. Vukosi Marivate.
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What teaches an AI to speak African languages? 🧪
Building open AI for 40 African languages means choosing what data does the teaching, and a wrong guess wastes weeks of expensive compute. So instead of guessing, we took Google’s Gemma model and continued its training five times on African...
Africa is 0.057% of the web. Here is how we grew it. 🌍 #AfirkaLLM
Before you can teach a model a language, you need its text. For most African languages, that text has been mislabelled, never crawled, or never online at all.
Today we’re starting a four-part series on AfirkaLLM, our project at DSFSI build...
Call for Participants | Hundzula 2027-Application for Hundzula: NLP, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities Retreat 2027 <> Application deadline: 19 October 2026
Applications are now open for Hundzula 2027, a four-day interdisciplinary research retreat bringing together linguists, computer scientists, data scientists, NLP researchers and postgraduate students to collaboratively address challenges in...
DSFSI Postdoctoral Position 2026/2027 [Closes 28 Sep 2026]
The Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) research group, the ABSA Chair of Data Science in the Department of Computer Science together with the Department of African Languages at University of Pretoria, are excited to offer one Postdoctor...
Join us in 2027 - Phase 2 of DSFSI 2027 Recruitment is Open
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Current AI development is rapidly accelerating, yet many of the world’s languages and contexts remain underrepresented in the datasets that power these systems. At the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFS...
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