Merge pull request #41 from john-bagiliko/jb_branch

Jb branch

news.html

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             <div class="row gy-4">
 
+              <!-- begin news item -->
+              <div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-lg-12" id="news-item-4" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-delay="200"> 
+                <br />
+                <br />
+                <br />
+
+                <h2> 3-Day Training on Data Science </h2>
+                <p class="author-date">July 17, 2024</p>
+                <br/>
+
+                <!-- <img src="assets/img/day1.jpeg" alt="Introduction to Data" class="responsive-image"> -->
+                <div class="slider" id="imageSlider">
+                  <div class="slides">
+                    <img src="assets/img/day1.jpeg" alt="Introduction to Data">
+                    <img src="assets/img/day2.jpeg" alt="Day 2 of Data Science Training">
+                    <img src="assets/img/day3.jpeg" alt="Day 3 of Data Science Training">
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+
+                <br/>
+
+                  <p style="text-align: justify";> 
+                      GHAIDEMS in collaboration with the Association of Computer Science,  Mathematics & Statistics Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of 
+                      Science and and Technology, KNUST, organized a 3-day training on data science.
+                  </p>
+
+                  <br/>
+
+                  <p style="text-align: justify";>
+                      In the span of three days, participants were taken through the following topics: 
+                  </p>
+
+                  <p style="text-align: justify";>
+                    1. Introduction to Data with R and R-Instat: This session was taken by Prof. Roger Stern and Dr. Francis Torgbor. Participants were introduced to sources of data, data acquiscition, 
+                    data wrangling and visualization using the R programming language, and the R-Instat software. 
+                  </p>
+
+                  <br/>
+
+                  <p style="text-align: justify";>
+                    2. Introduction to Data Science: This session was taken by Dr. Lily Clements and Mr. Nicholas Opoku. Participants were introduced to the science of data. 
+                    Particularly, this was on how to make sense of data, understanding variablility in data, and building meaningful and useful models. 
+                  </p>
+
+                  <br/>
+
+                  <p style="text-align: justify";>
+                    3. Introduction to Python for Data Science: This session was taken by Dr. George Simmons and Mr. John Bagiliko. Participants were introduced to the basics of the Python 
+                    programming language, and how it is used for data science.
+                  </p>
+
+
+                  <br/>
+
+                  <p style="text-align: justify";>
+                      These sessions were very interactive and hands-on. Did you miss it? You can still get access to the resources and recordings of the sessions.
+                     The materials are all available <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10dlSi_Y_wExEX7V1UO4ABXkbDCYOoSr1?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. 
+                  </p>
+
+                  <br/>
+
+                  <p  style="text-align: justify";>
+                      For more information, please contact us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> 
+                  </p>
+
+              </div> 
+              <!-- end news item -->
+
               <!-- begin news item -->
               <div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-lg-12" id="news-item-3" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-delay="200"> 
 
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+                  <li class="nav-item">
+                    <a class="nav-link" href="#news-item-4">
+                      3-Day Training on Data Science
+                    </a>
+                    </li>
                     <li class="nav-item">
                     <a class="nav-link" href="#news-item-3">
                         Careers in Mathematics and How Playing Plays a Role
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+
 
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