My Nesta Experience

How a Collective Intelligence project has helped me see data and Artificial Intelligence in a different light!

The clock ticks 6:30, and our big day finally arrives. So we march on, passing along the wooden bridges, stone houses, arid hills, and snow-capped mountains.

In a bit, I am at the front, presenting our work, and teaching how an AI model works. But I was not merely teaching. I was learning too, learning about my journey of Nesta Fellowship that had started a few months ago.

I still remember the day I found out about the Nesta Data Science Fellowship, kindly funded by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) as part of the Collective Crisis Intelligence project. Coming back from a sabbatical, I was excited to come across an opportunity where I could use Data Science for a social good project. So it started with plenty of eagerness and enthusiasm, getting to know new people and about the project, and of course going back to roots (Python and Jupyter notebook), which reminds me of our Data Science team.

Working with Izzy has been such a fun learning experience. Be it technical skills (like structuring Machine Learning pipelines) or work management skills (like dividing and collaborating on Data Science projects), I have learned valuable Data Science skills from Izzy. Then there is George (at the beginning) and Jyl (towards…