[MENTEE] Taiwo Owoseni

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Mentee: Taiwo Owoseni

Mentor(s): Franz Király , Nina Miolane

Link to Blog

• Taiwo's Outreachy Blog
• https://thayehas.hashnode.dev/internship-wrap-up

Why did you join sktime's mentorship program?

• learning from ML professionals.
• Collaborating with diverse people
• working on time series
• Building my communication skills
• Contributing to open-source

What topics are you working on?

• STL forecaster https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime/pull/896

• Fixcheck https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime/pull/897

What are your learning goals?

• make contributions to a project (PRs, PR reviews, documentation)
• learn and use best practices in collaborating
• understand API design
• learn core concepts of forecasting with TS (and math behind them)
• Write code in a more structured way
• Gain experience in team involvement

What's next for you after the mentorship program?

• continous open source contribution
• Building a network of people
• my career development