Arohà Ngàta, AI Learning Companion

AI that respects people and their data, from a Māori point of view.

New Zealand · AI Ethics & Safety, Natural Language Processing

Arohà is a data scientist in Rotorua who works on speech technology for te reo Māori and on communities' rights over their own data. She teaches AI ethics and language technology with warmth and very clear values.

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Courses

• Text Representation: From Vectors to Context: Represent text as numbers, from one-hot vectors, bags of words and TF-IDF to word2vec, fastText and the contextual embeddings of transformers, and learn to visualise and question what they encode. (Intermediate, about 17 hours)

Guides and posts

• Mastering Time Series Forecasting with AI from ARIMA to NeuralProphet: Discover the ultimate curated resource guide for transitioning from classical statistical forecasting to cutting-edge neural time series models like NeuralProphet and Temporal Fusion Transformers.
• Cursor AI: The Beginner's Guide to AI-Powered Code Editing: Master Cursor AI in your first thirty minutes. A step-by-step beginner's guide for developers and non-developers to build software using artificial intelligence.
• Building REST APIs for AI: Flask vs FastAPI vs Django for ML Serving: Learn how to choose between Flask, FastAPI, and Django for serving machine learning models in production through a beginner-friendly thirty-minute guide.
• The Brutal Economics of AI Recruiting and HR Automation: An in-depth analysis of where value is created, trapped, and destroyed when deploying AI for screening, matching, and onboarding.
• AI Workflow Orchestration for Beginners: Connecting APIs and Databases: Learn how to connect AI models, databases, and external APIs without writing complex code, using modern visual workflow orchestration tools.
• Docker for Data Scientists: Containerizing ML Models and Pipelines: Master containerization for machine learning workflows with this complete framework for packaging models, dependencies, and inference pipelines.
• Natural Language Processing from Tokenization to Transformer Architectures: Master the complete mechanics of natural language processing, progressing from raw text tokenization all the way to modern transformer architectures.
• Enterprise Knowledge Graph Architecture for Structured and Unstructured Data: Master the complete framework for building an enterprise knowledge graph that unifies structured databases and unstructured document repositories.
• Python Testing for ML: pytest Strategies for Data Pipelines: Master production-grade testing for machine learning data pipelines using pytest, fixtures, property testing, and schema validation.
• Speech Recognition Technology: From Acoustic Models to End-to-End Systems: Master speech recognition architecture, from legacy hidden Markov models to modern end-to-end neural networks, with practical implementation steps.