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Local Chapter Challenge: Practice Your Skills
- The Statement
Predicting Autism in Toddlers Through Machine Learning
Challenge Started!
This Omdena Local Chapter Challenge runs for 6 weeks and is a unique experience to try and grow your skills in a collaborative and safe environment with a diverse mix of people from all over the world.
You will work on solving a local problem, initiated by the Omdena Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter.
The problem
Current screening processes incur costs and require expertise. Therefore, this project will apply ML to predict and screen autism in children using a simple set of parameters reducing the cost and expertise needed.
The goals
- Exploratory Data Analysis.
- Train ML model to predict Autism in toddlers.
- Use explainability to identify the reason behind predictions.
- Write a research paper
Why join? The uniqueness of Omdena Local Chapter Challenges
Omdena Local Chapter Challenges are not a competition or hackathon but a real-world project that will grow your experience to a new level.
A unique learning experience with the potential to make an impact through the outcome of the project. You will go through an entire data science project lifecycle. This covers problem scoping, data collection, and preparation, as well as modeling for deployment.
And the best part is that you will join the global and collaborative community of Omdena with tons of benefits to accelerate your career.
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Taiwo O. Adetiloye Ph.D.
Mohit Sharma, India
I feel Omdena is the stepping stone to discover the true potential of AI.
Rosana de Oliveira Gomes, Brazil
After all this mind-blowing experience, I feel much closer to the person I wanted to be for a very long time: a technology change maker.
Colton Magnant, UK
I have learned so much in several domains including data mining, AI, ML, transfer learning, NLP.
Anita Okoh, Germany
Working in a collaborative project helped greatly in boosting my data science confidence.
Xavier Torres Fatsini, Spain
After the Omdena project, I see that career adaptation was a necessary thing in today’s trends.
Marek Cichy, Poland
Collaboration across continents, time zones, and perspectives, especially on a social science-linked challenge was mind-opening.
Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, South Africa
Joining Omdena was an important career milestone. A unique way of learning and contributing to social good.
Neil Sahota, USA
Collaborative AI enables robust AI solutions through sharing knowledge, perspectives, and promoting diversity and inclusion.
Sakthisree Venkatesan, India
The community made me feel a sense of freedom and provided a non-judgmental environment where I was enabled to help others.
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