Glad to have some vac-students starting with our Data Mining group at CSIR MDS-IS. This is part of our participation in the Data Science for Social Good program with Meraka. Gary Bezendeinhout Gary is studying Electrical Engineering at Wits University. …
An edited (much better) version appeared on iAfrikan [Evernote Mirror] South Africa is one of the few countries on the continent that publishes marriage and divorce data. Even better, Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) makes available individual (couple) information about marriages and …
Just a quickie. A twitter scraper and looking at a number of keywords. Tweets collected using the hashtag #BBMzansi and #BB2tv. Each of the teams in the visualisation had their own keywords. Example the team of Blue and K2 had …
An edited (much better) version appeared on iAfrikan [Evernote Mirror] Everyday, every hour, every minute, every second of our lives we are creating data. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone is creating tons of data just by being alive. Unconsciously being a citizen …
This article originally appeared on ‘The Global Scientist’ [Evernote Mirror] Imagine trying to teach a machine how to play chess. There are numerous small steps to teach; strategies to start the game, strategies to play the middle of the game and …
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