“Almost all of my friends dream of becoming a big data scientist. “It was worth the pain and the sacrifices I had to make,” said Jeudy, a senior at the Technical Center of Planification and Applied Economics ( CTPEA). Pierre’s house, Jeudy became one of 11 students who graduated from the data analytics bootcamp. In August, through slow internet and many trips to Mrs. Ayiti Analytics had to limit the number of students in the lab after the novel coronavirus started spreading in Haiti in April. cents, to charge the machine.Īt least, Jeudy reasoned, he no longer had to trek through the gang-infested streets of Port-au-Prince to get to Digicel’s lab for the program and was following it from home. Pierre’s house nearby, paying 25 Haitian gourdes, about 38 U.S. That day, as with many days, Jeudy closed his laptop and went to Mrs. He was in the middle of an intensive data science bootcamp, a four-month course created by tech training and data research company Ayiti Analytics. The power shortage came at the worst time too for Jeudy, 21. There hadn’t been electricity in the neighborhood for about a month. There was no electricity to charge his 2016 Dell laptop. As he sat in his living room in Carrefour in July, the usual feeling of powerlessness, mixed with anger, creeped over Jeudy again. The low battery light on Tchalens Jeudy’s laptop was on again.
