State of Africa Artificial Intelliegnce -Africa4Ai

1. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
African Survey
Participants (%)
…. based on Kaggle Survey
Population Pyramid of Africa Kaggle Survey participants
Africans AI Practioners learning platforms
42% 38%
11% 9%
Bachelor’s Master’s
PhD OthersEducational
Attainment
Information
Source
Code
Editors
Programming
Language
Nigeria
South Africa
Kenya
EgyptAlgeria
Part 1
31-40
21-30
11-20
0-10

2. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
…. based on Kaggle Survey
Population Pyramid of Africa Kaggle Survey participants
More men than women participated in the
survey. The largest proportion of male and
female could be found in age bracket 22-29 years.
This may be an indicator of gender and age
distribution of AI participants in the continent.

3. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
African Survey
Participants (%)
…. based on Kaggle Survey
Nigeria
South Africa
Kenya
EgyptAlgeria
Part 1
31-40
21-30
11-20
0-10
Nigeria has the highest proportion participants
in Africa. Note that countries with very few
numbers of participants were dropped by Kaggle
for the sake of anonymity.

4. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
…. based on Kaggle Survey
Africans AI practioners learning platforms
Part 1
Coursera, Kaggle learn, Data Camp, Edex are the
top 4 platforms that AI practioners patronised
for learning about machine learning, deep
learning, etc.

5. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
…. based on Kaggle Survey
42% 38%
11% 9%
Bachelor’s Master’s
PhD OthersEducational
Attainment
Part 1
The educational qualification of AI practioners in Africa
Most AI practioners have either bachelor’s or
master’s degree.

6. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
…. based on Kaggle Survey
The places where African AI specialists source information
Kaggle forums, blogs (Towards data science,
Medium, Analytics Vidhya, KDNuggets), Youtube,
Twitter, Course Forum are top 5 places are the
online media source of information for the
African AI specialists.

7. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
…. based on Kaggle Survey
Programming languages of African AI Practioners
The top 5 programming languages of choice for
the African AI practioners include Python, SQL, R,
Java and Javascript.

8. 2019 State of
Artificial Intelligence
in Africa
…. based on Kaggle Survey
The favourite code editors of the African AI scientists
Jupyter notebook, visual studio, pycharm,
Notepad++, Rstudio, Spyder, Sublime, Matlab
and Atom are the top code editors of African AI
scientists.