Data Science for Poaching Prevention and Disease Treatment with Nyalleng Moorosi
TWiML Talk 109
For today’s show, I’m joined by Nyalleng Moorosi, Senior Data Science Researcher at The Council for Scientific & Industrial Research or CSIR, in Pretoria, South Africa.
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In our discussion, we discuss two major projects that Nyalleng is apart of at the CSIR, one, a predictive policing use case, which focused on understanding and preventing rhino poaching in Kruger National Park, and the other, a healthcare use case which focuses on understanding the effects of a drug treatment that was causing pancreatic cancer in South Africans. Along the way we talk about the challenges of data collection, data pipelines and overcoming sparsity. This was a really interesting conversation that I’m sure you’ll enjoy.
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About Nyalleng
Mentioned in the Interview
- Stop Poaching Rhinos Project
- Susan Fox
- Kruger National Park
- Black in AI
- Data Science Africa
- Deep Learning Indaba
- Women in Machine Learning
- FAIR
- Houdini paper
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