The workshop that accompanies this course will also demonstrate:
The intended audience for this course and accompanying workshop are absolute beginners who have an interest in computer vision and the application of artificial intelligence in modern day CV libraries. Some familiarity in Python and / or geometry will be helpful but is not required as the instructor assumes no prior math / programming knowledge for all workshops in the Kickstart series.
All materials will be provided in HTML, PDF, Python Scripts format.
A follow-up classroom-based workshop is planned for January where students sharpen their skills in computer vision and python. A free online quiz would be available at the end of the workshop, available for participants to put their knowledge to test and earn a badge.
An introductory course to computer vision, with the following emphasis:
The workshop will be delivered in English.
Q&A Sessions will be in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
An RStudio-certified instructor and machine learning practitioner in the field of marketing automation, fraud detection, finance and e-commerce. Samuel is Indonesia’s top-ranked Stack Overflow user in R (top 5% worldwide) for three years running, and boasts certifications from RStudio, Microsoft, MongoDB, Neo4J Database, Stanford University, John Hopkins University, among others.
Prior to Algoritma, he has 8 years of working experience, including a stint as in-house consultant to several public-trading companies from his time staying in China, Japan and Singapore. He is today an active trainer and consultant for various companies in the financial industry. He has guest lectured in various campuses: Binus, NUS (National University of Singapore)’s The Logistics Institute, University of Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Binus, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Telkom University etc. Courses he authored are offered also in Singapore through Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Samuel is also among the first recipients of Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science in Southeast Asia, having demonstrated proficiency in R, Python, Microsoft Azure, SQL / T-SQL, PowerBI and a list of other technologies, and among the first to be certified in RStudio’s program. Technical committee member and competition judge on Finhacks 2018, the largest Machine Learning competition of the year organized by PT. Bank Central Asia (BCA) and DailySocial.
Workshops in our Kickstart series are tailored to casual programmers and non-programmers that are taking their first steps into data science. It assumes no prior knowledge or academic background, and attendees will be introduced to the beautiful art of writing R / Python code to produce data visualization, build machine learning models and solving modern day problems using mathematically-sound principles.
Students are encouraged to download the course materials beforehand if they wish to follow along with the Code Along exercises.
The workshop has a gentle learning slope that is designed with non-technical professionals and academics in mind.
