Documents
Presentations
About the webinar
The African Centre of Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) will hold a StatsTalk-Africa webinar series entitled Using Large Language Models for Complex Information Extraction and Classification Tasks in Economics and Statistics on 29 September 2023 from 11:00 to 12:30 EAT via Microsoft Teams.
The webinar aims to introduce and demystify the use of LLMs in complex information extraction and classification tasks specific to the domains of economics and statistics. The StatsTalk-Africa is a monthly webinar series being organized by the UNECA-ACS to demystify and provide a space for dialogues on data, statistics, and innovative techniques and tools among data experts and users with within ECA, Africa and rest of the world. Demystifying and unpacking statistical concepts mean that Stats Talk will have experienced speakers and practitioners from the region and across the globe.
Speakers:
- Welcome Remarks: Mr. Oliver Chinganya, Director, ECA-ACS
- Presenters:
- Laurent Smeets, Lead Data Scientist, Ghana Statistical Service
- Josephine Baako, Data Scientist, Ghana Statistical Service
- Issoufou Seidou Sanda, African Centre for Statistics
Moderator: Ms. Anjana Dube, ECA-ACS
Registration link:
__________________________________________________________________
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 363 036 360 740
Passcode: Y2n5ch
Download Teams | Join on the web
Join with a video conferencing device
Video Conference ID: 126 552 725 1
________________________________________________________________________________
Contact Persons
Mr.Issoufou Seidou Sanda, ECA- ACS, seidoui@un.org
Mr. Yonas Mersha, yonas.yigezu@un.org