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Bakwe Chokoe

Junior Data Science Facilitator
Pretoria

Summary

A data scientist with great problem-solving and communication skills. Passionate about analytics, storytelling and practical data-driven solutions, I'm also a life-long learner geared towards affecting change in my both my professional and personal capacities.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Junior Facilitator

ALX
10.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for delivery of data science content for various cohorts at different stages of their learning journey.
  • Brainstorming new and innovative ways of increasing engagement among learners whilst meeting learning objectives.
  • Successfully oversaw two intern teams build, deploy and present their research and development projects to their sponsors, stakeholders and other guests during an intern conference week.
  • Within the corporate training team, was tasked with assisting with and presenting webinars on Data Literacy, Visualization and Querying Data. I have also been part of researching, curating and editing content for our AI ethics and Corporate Governance workshops. Currently making adjustments to the Ethical Leadership workshop.

Game analytics and marketing researcher, Extern

Mobalytics
08.2024 - 09.2024
  • On behalf of Mobalytics, researched and played two video games with the purpose of uncovering strategies used to maximize player development using several trackable in game metrics.
  • I implemented player psychology to understand the incentives behind playing the games as well as the earning models behind the respective titles.

Data Science Intern

Sand Technologies
03.2024 - 06.2024
  • Tasked by the Telco department of Sand technologies with building a segmentation model as well as a generative adversarial network to produce unlimited quantities of synthetic satellite image data for training purposes.
  • Segmentation methods included manual labelling of features and exploration of Meta's Segment Anything Model, whilst Resnet technique was applied to our Generative Adversarial Network.

Team Lead

Explore Academy
12.2023 - 01.2024
  • Oversaw the creation of a recommender system application that utilizes content-based and collaborative-based filtering methodologies to suggest relevant movies to viewers.

Project Manager

Explore Academy
11.2023 - 12.2023
  • Managed a project in which Natural Language Processing accurately identified Twitter user sentiment towards man-made climate change, culminating in a usable app that would detect positive sentiment, negative sentiment, or genuine news articles shared from unique tweets.

Project Manager

Explore Academy
10.2023 - 11.2023
  • Managed a project that utilized regression methods to predict Spain's electricity demand and load shortfall (how much electricity Spain would need at any given point in time) based on several weather data variables from cities in Spain.

Team Lead

Explore Academy
08.2023 - 09.2023
  • Using SQL and relational database management, explored English Premier League Data spanning over 10 years to determine whether or not taller teams won more games on average than shorter teams.

Education

Batchelor of Arts - Health and Social Services, Applied Psychology

UNISA
01.2018 - 12.2022

Bachelor of Arts - Honours (Applied Psychology)

UNISA
04.2001 -

Explore A.I Data Science Certicate - Data Science, Machine Learning

Explore Data Science Academy
07.2023 - 02.2024

Skills

  • Communication
  • Computer vision
  • Version Control with Git
  • Machine Learning
  • Project Management
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Soft Skills

Certification

Generative AI Leader (Google)

Interests

Reading

Writing

Martial Arts

Gaming

Timeline

Generative AI Leader (Google)

06-2025

AI Fundementals (Datacamp)

01-2025

Data Literacy (Datacamp)

01-2025

Junior Facilitator

ALX
10.2024 - Current

Game analytics and marketing researcher, Extern

Mobalytics
08.2024 - 09.2024

Data Science Intern

Sand Technologies
03.2024 - 06.2024

Team Lead

Explore Academy
12.2023 - 01.2024

Project Manager

Explore Academy
11.2023 - 12.2023

Project Manager

Explore Academy
10.2023 - 11.2023

Team Lead

Explore Academy
08.2023 - 09.2023

Explore A.I Data Science Certicate - Data Science, Machine Learning

Explore Data Science Academy
07.2023 - 02.2024

Batchelor of Arts - Health and Social Services, Applied Psychology

UNISA
01.2018 - 12.2022

Bachelor of Arts - Honours (Applied Psychology)

UNISA
04.2001 -

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