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Zindi connects organisations with
a global community of data scientists
a global community of data scientists
to build talent pipelines and solve the world’s pressing
challenges with machine learning & data science.
challenges with machine learning & data science.
Zindi hosts the largest community of African data scientists, working to solve the world’s most pressing challenges using machine learning and AI. We connect data scientists with organisations, and provide a place to learn, hone your skills and find a job. We want to transform the African continent and showcase African data science talent to the world
Study, join discussions and hackathons
Start your journey or master skills on real world problems with our various study resources.
Practice, earn money and build your reputation
Join competitions for both prize money and knowledge. The higher you place, the more your reputation grows.
Find a job and grow your professional network
Our partners regularly post job opportunities. Find your next career opportunity today.
Current competitions
Helping South Africa
RMB CPI Nowcasting Challenge
Can you nowcast South African CPI?
$17 000 USD
Starts in ~2 months
Helping Côte d'Ivoire
Digital Africa Plantation Counting Challenge
Can you create a semi-supervised algorithm to count trees in plantations in Côte d'Ivoire?
$10 000 USD
11 days to go
Africa Biomass Challenge
Can you predict biomass in cocoa plantations in Côte d'Ivoire?
$10 000 USD
~2 months to go
Intron AfriSpeech-200 Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge
Can you create an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for African accents, for use by doctors?
$5 000 USD
~2 months to go
Helping South Africa
DataDrive2030 Early Learning Predictors Challenge
Can you identify which features of an early learning programme predict better learning outcomes for children?
$3 000 USD
~1 month to go
Helping South Africa
RMB Monthly Mini Challenge #1: Nowcast April
Can you nowcast South Africa’s April CPI?
$600 USD
~1 month to go
Learn and master
Career
23 Common Data Science Interview Questions for Beginners
9 Feb 2023, 10:07
Meet the winners
Meet Stella Kimani, Azer Ksouri, and Mohammad Alasawedah: winners of the Microsoft Rice Disease Classification Challenge
2 Feb 2023, 10:41
Career
Data Engineering 102: Introduction to Python for Data Engineering
26 Jan 2023, 11:01
Stories from our community
“I am currently working with Qhala and Mtoto News to put winning Zindi solutions into production, and building a chatbot that incorporates those models. I’m developing a great love for natural language processing (NLP).”
Lawrence Moruye
Data scientist intern at Qhala, #12 on Zindi
Keep in touch
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See how Zindi can help your organisation
Solve a problem
We work with you to define and set up your machine learning challenge. Our community of data scientists solves the challenge through a competition and you receive the winning solutions.
Find the best talent
With thousands of skilled individuals across data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data engineering specialisations, Zindi helps you find the best talent.
Build Your Brand
Zindi hosts the largest community of data scientists in Africa. For organisations wishing to build their brand amongst this unique audience, Zindi is the place to go.
Improve your organisation’s skills
Build your organisation’s skills by hosting a hackathon on Zindi. Hackathons are short, fun, problem-solving sprints, usually run over 1–3 days designed to challenge your organisation’s skills and foster collaboration.