Excerpts from SARAO’s 4th Big Data Africa School
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) hosted the Big Data Africa School after more than three years of pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 4th Big Data Africa School was funded by the UK Newton Fund under the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) Big Data project.
As released by SARAO, this year’s school hosted 25 participants in Cape Town from 5-11 March 2023, with participants hailing from diverse African regions. The participants ranged in age between 19 and 39 years of age with seven Doctoral degree students, ten Master’s degree students and eight Bachelor of Science (Honours)/Engineering students. The countries represented at the 4th Big Data Africa School are Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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