THE JOURNEY AT SHE CODE AFRICA
A few months ago I got a life-changing opportunity at SheCode Africa which started in March, I got into the SheCode Africa mentorship program, the Data Science track, I was assigned to an amazing mentor named Countess Funmi, with some other awesome team members. It has really been an amazing journey.
The first week flopped for me, I did my assignment but not exactly how we were asked to do it, I felt embarrassed being my first presentation, but my amazing mentor encouraged me and asked me to try it again the next day. and I did great.
The second week, we had to learn statistics and probability, it was an interesting read and learning, I have a very faint background in STEM, which made it a bit challenging, but I was able to learn and understand it. It also encouraged me published my first technical article on an introduction to descriptive statistics, you can read it up here.
We continued into Data Analysis and Data Visualization, with Python, PowerBI, and Tableau. The intriguing part of storytelling in data science, creating an interactive dashboard, learning about how much information can be gotten from a dataset, and how lovely visualization can help pass across messages to the stakeholders. I published an article too on one of the tasks I was assigned, you can read it up here
Then, we proceeded to Data modeling, Supervised Learning; Regression and classification. We also had Research work, which involves data collection, wrangling, analysis, visualization. we were able to learn practical real-life situations of Data Science.
I won't sugarcoat, it has really been positively challenging and stretching. learning, unlearning, and relearning, it worth every of my time spent.
My mentor, Countess Funmi, I honestly wish the whole world is filled with people like her, I mean, it would be amazing. She is a mother, a tutor, a friend who would go a length for us. She shared everything with us about data science. I gain a lot of confidence in my skills being under her tutelage. Thank you, Countess, I love you. My awesome POC, Thank you for your sacrifices.
She Code Africa to me is more of a family than an organisation. Thank you for giving me a place and for the lovely things you have been doing for ladies in Tech, you are incredible.
To everyone who has contributed to the success of the program, THANK YOU.