On a mission to use data for good…

My Story

I’ve been fascinated by statistics since I was a teenager. Moving from Ghana to the U.S. at the age of 10, my math teachers and classes were always challenging and fun, allowing me to move beyond cultural and accent barriers to work with and form relationships with the other kids in my school.

While life has taken me down many roads since those early days of classroom math competitions, I’ve had the opportunity to return many times to the field of math/statistics: first, as a high school math teacher during the start of my career. Then, as a data science student during an early career pivot from business development into AI.

I currently work as a Policy Lead in the Internet Policy Unit for a UK-based non-profit where I lead our AI workstream, thinking through promoting AI ecosystems around the world and especially in Africa and distilling research on AI regulation, governance, and ethics.

Simultaneously, I’m pursuing opportunities to strengthen my data science skills and give back to the world by AI for good.

I am currently volunteering on a machine learning project to improve the sorting and segregation of waste with the Omdena France chapter and eagerly anticipating more opportunities to use data for good.

Training

FlatIron Data Science Bootcamp: Curriculum: Python, Data Analysis and Engineering, ML & Intro to Advanaced ML

Correlation One Data Science for AIl: Python, Statistics, and Modelling

Self-learning: SQL, Tableau, BigQuery for Data Warehousing, Amazon Redshift

Featured projects

The motivation for my personal projects has been to explore the possibility of using data to solve social issues affecting marginalised communities in the US or for Africa at large. Here are a few:

Classifying Fragile States: https://github.com/breboa/classfiyingfragilestates

The State of the Black Economy & Covid: https://www.tpinsights.com/free-articles/the-state-of-the-black-economy-black-women-workers-are-less-impacted-by-early-covid-19-related-job-losses-opinion

Twitter Data & China-Africa Relations: https://bit.ly/2J17QJY

Github repository of course work & project submissions: https://github.com/breboa