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While data science is a modern catch-all for everything from pivot tables in Excel to machine learning, data-driven storytelling is a less well-known discipline. In this session, I will take you through a few examples of data stories and give you an opportunity to try your hand at one yourself.

This 2-hour crash course is designed to introduce the basics of Python programming and show examples of how these basics can be applied in Data Science. The session will be hands-on. By the end of this crash course, participants will: understand basic control structures in Python, be able to write simple programs, and learn (from a step-by-step example) how to extract knowledge from data and create insightful visualisations. No programming experience is required for this course.

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Azure Cognitive Services brings AI within reach of every developer through a family of APIs that don’t require machine-learning expertise. In this session, Lebogang will give you an overview of the many APIs available under the Microsoft Cognitive Services umbrella, and a demonstration of how Cognitive Services enables you to add advanced AI functionality, such as vision, speech, search, and text services with only a few lines of code for modern application development.