Tomorrow has never been brighter….
I made a companion iPython notebook for the book "The Art of Data Science", which uses R for it's examples. Its a good book. Short but a good way to get someone acclimatised to the Data Science process and a …
Took some MDS-IS data-mining students and Data Science for Social Good students to visit Innovation Hub. Specifically they visited the Geekulcha collective who were busy hosting their GKVacWork for learners from the Tshwane area (specifically the northern townships). Geekulcha was …
This past weekend, finally participated in a Hackathon where hacking a solution was my(our) primary goal. After previously trying (trying being the word) out a Hackathon at the Random Hacks of Kindness Pretoria (RHOKPta), we decided to regroup and come …
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 …