I believe by now I’ve watched every episode of Shark Tank, an American business reality television series where Founders get to pitch in front of investors called ‘Sharks’ on the show. Across its 15 seasons (with Season 16 having just started last month), I’ve been captivated since episode one — drawn in by the inspiring founders who […]
I recently came across a great CV and was reminded of the power data has to make someone stand out. It’s one thing for example to say you were responsible for social media marketing vs creating a social media campaign that resulted in X number of impressions, leads or engagement, or that you were a […]
Transitioning careers or entering the job market can be a daunting task, but with a data-driven approach, you can streamline your preparation and increase your chances of success. In this article, I provide practical steps to help one identify the skills in demand, prioritise your learning, and make yourself visible to potential employers. Included is […]
It is expected that in any country, immigrants will fair off worse on several indicators than the natives. In this post, using the European Union Migration integration Statistics (available here), I created an interactive Tableau Dashboard to look at how EU countries perform in comparison to each other in terms of the employment and social […]
In my last post I presented tips on designing dashboards, one of them was stealing like an artist, which I have done in this one :). I came across one Tableau Zen Master’s work and loved how their dashboards popped, although I can’t for the life of me remember their name. The dashboards were simple […]
As a Data Analyst, it is my job to take data, manipulate it and articulate it so that it delivers answers to the questions the audience has, in such a way that they have a pleasurable experience while getting the answers. This is a tough ask, one that requires combining technical ability with User Design […]
Originally published here. In this day and age of data, making decisions based on data is important. As a data analyst, I understand the vast benefits data and the use of it for decision making has for organisations. However in order to make decisions based on data, you need the data first and sometimes this […]
The Tokyo2020 Olympics ended on the 8th August and it’s always interesting to see the final results table with the winners. Looking at the list, it’s easy to notice that countries with money are at the top, which is not really a surprise as these countries are able to invest more into sports. In my […]
I have written before about the importance of visualizations in communicating insights (here). Having the skill to create beautiful and insightful visualizations is a great arsenal to have in one’s pocket and I always wish I had more time to hone that skill. Although creating visualizations is part of my everyday data analysis work, from using them to explore the data, look for trends […]
As a data analyst, one of the satisfaction I get from my work is to see the analytics results get utilized and that decisions are made based on my work. From talking with other data scientists, this however is not always the case. As also pointed by a recent study with data scientists at a […]
In one of my earlier post, I analyzed the Shark Tank data to gain some insights on the distribution of deals among industries and presenters’ genders. In this post, I want to present a more visual exploration of the data as a way to also gain more practice using R’s Shiny package. There is nothing sophisticated […]
Last week, I lead the second session of the Finland-Uganda Data Science Meetups. The topic for this session was data import, cleaning and pre-processing, and visualizations. In the session, we welcomed senior data scientist, Jukka Toivanen, who shared with us the importance of good communication and visualization skills in data science. With the image below, […]
This is Part II, a continuation of the Data analysis of the Africa, Europe, and Asia-Pacific 2018 Index of Economic Freedom data – Part I In the first part I explored the: 1. distribution of nations in Africa (where I am from), Europe (where I am currently living) and Asia (where the economic freedom leading […]
According to the 2018 Index of Economic Freedom, released by the Heritage Foundation, the world is moderately free. The Index, which was launched in 1995, evaluates nations on 12 aspects that affect economic freedom. These are grouped into four broad policy areas; 1) Rule of law (property rights, judicial effectiveness, and government integrity); 2) Government size (tax […]
I distinctly remember last year when the Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Helsinki gathered majority of the departmental staff to celebrate the department being ranked 1st in the Nordic region and coming 101-150 around the world – according to the QS World University Ranking. The University of Helsinki as a […]
Continuing from my last post about the Oscars, in this one I look at this year’s Oscar nominations. In particular, I focus on the number of people of color that have been nominated in the “big” categories (i.e., Best actor / actress, best supporting actor / actress and best director). I analyze the changes in the context of […]
The following movie analysis post was driven out of curiosity. I distinctly remember that when I was watching the movie Joy starring Jennifer Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper’s character appeared, I wondered about the exact number of times that these two actors have actually appeared together. I know they were together in Silver Linings Playbook, Serena, as well […]
Ever since Shark Tank aired in 2009, I have been a fan of the show – from the varied business ideas that get pitched, the background stories of the presenters, to the deals that get made or not made. After several seasons of watching the show, I became curious about certain statistics such as the […]
By now, many of us have heard President Donald Trump speeches, or at least snippets of them. One thing I have noticed, among many other things, is that he tends to use a lot adjectives and adverbs or at least I always get the notion that they are many. Most likely, it could be just that […]
When the 2015 and 2016 Academy Award nominations were released, many in Hollywood and on social media were deeply offended by the lack of racial diversity among the nominees, especially in the prominent categories of best actor / actress, and best supporting actor / actress, where only white actors and actresses were nominated. So did any […]