A little while ago I noticed some really interesting graphs composed entirely of emoji and I’ve been keen to gather a bunch of examples together. I like “EmojiVIz” because it’s engaging, succinct and if done well, really informative and memorable. Case in point: some of the EmojiViz included this post …
People using R for analysis or data science might have heard that the R community is really active on Twitter, but feel a bit lost when trying to figure out how to use Twitter. Like most social media apps, there’s a bit of a learning curve to get going. In …
In the foreseeable future, at least rudimentary forms of data analysis will find its way to many jobs, much as email has done. However, I don’t think that everyone needs to be a deep-learning ninja, needs to know what Kuburnetes is or even how to do a docker-hub (😝). In …
In this post I’ll be setting out my view for why you may want to learn to code in R rather than in Python, or at least try R. At the end of this post I also share some suggestions for getting started with either. Some background on my …
UPDATE: Some time after writing this post, I discovered a feature in Excel that broke my hear a little, so my love for Excel is slightly diminished Check out the post here. It feels a bit weird to write a post about MS Excel, but I feel compelled to and …
Photo Credit: Warenski The fine folks at Open Up recently published an open data set of recorded fire incidents in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. I found it quite interesting that such a data set was available, so I thought I’d explore the data a little to see …
UPDATE: 23 January 2022: So its been some time since I wrote this post, much has happened in the blockahin and crypto spaces and for me its pretty clear, buyer beware! For a great deep dive into the whole thing from bitcoin, to blockchain, NFts and DOA’s look no further …
The value of data has grown exponentially in the last few years. As people realise that good data and analysis leads to good decisions, there’s a virtuous cycle that calls for more and more data. In digital technology (e.g. cellphones or websites), it’s pretty easy to collect data at every …
A multi-million rand problem Illegal dumping is a major headache for cities, and one that costs hundreds of millions of Rand to deal with every year. In Cape Town, it’s costing R350m per year to clean up. In Johannesburg, R50m per year. In Durban, it costs R20m to R50m per year. …
This quote from the Open Data Handbook is a perfect way to introduce this post: Open data, especially open government data, is a tremendous resource that is as yet largely untapped. Before recently, I had never heard of Mpofana Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It’s a relativity small municipality in South …
