Omayeli is an artist and technologist from Nigeria currently based in San Francisco. She currently works at LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. She’s interested in the intersection of technology, art and activism. Her work outside of work aims to use writing, data, code and satire as tools to foster disillusionment with our current realities. She’s an alum of Code2040, the School of Poetic Computation and the Recurse Center.
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Girl Geek Dinner
LinkedIn hosts a Girl Geek Dinner on October 2, 2017 in San Francisco, California.
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The Gendered Project - Omayeli Arenyeka (LinkedIn Software Engineer) at Elevate 2019
When you think of the word “superhero” what do you imagine? Language reflects and reinforces social norms; ungendering language is a vital part of interrogating sexism. However, there’s no dataset of gendered words. This talk is about data – where to get it and how to create it if it doesn’t exist. In this talk, LinkedIn software engineer Omayeli Arenyeka creates the dataset for The Gendered Project, showing how to view unavailable data as an opportunity rather than an obstacle to answering questions.
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