Africa Day celebrated annually on the 25th May, commemorates the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on May 25, 1963. As we at Think Africa, the organisation I am chairing, are organising a few exciting events to celebrate this day, I wondered about the independence of African countries and if it would be possible […]
Many of us have probably heard the Bible verse that says “For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap’ or more commonly as a proverb, ‘You reap what you sow”. I have heard this many times but it’s only recently when I heard a talk by Jim Rohn on becoming the best version […]
I had heard that it was possible to tailor Tableau Dashboards for mobile but I had never tried it. I often created larger, landscape sized Dashboards that colleagues access on Desktop or laptop. However, I believe that many who read my blogposts published either through my website or Medium access it on mobile devices. This […]
Data is all around us, is only increasing, and the ability to understand, use it, and communicate has become a valuable asset to have. One can say that it has actually become just as important as reading and writing. I recently came across a video showing how one mother was helping her kids collect, analyze […]
Being able to write winning grant applications is one of those skills that is invaluable. The benefits of it are manifold, whether you are running a non-profit, a profit-making business, or wishing to carry out research or a project. I worked as a postgraduate researcher for over 10 years, first as a PhD researcher then […]
In this blog, I will attempt to highlight some tips on how to communicate your achievements and reflect them into your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and/or Cover letter effectively. Why is it important to precisely communicate your achievements numerically? Numbers are objective; and easily understood across cultures. Many people, myself included have often fallen prey to […]
Written by me and originally posted by F-Secure -> https://blog.f-secure.com/how-smarter-machine-learning-reduces-churn/ Machine learning can make a lot of things better. But as everyone who deals with artificial intelligence knows, a model is only as good as the data used to train it. At F-Secure, we’re not only applying machine learning to the cyber security domain, we’re using it to […]
The turn of the year always forces me to sit down and take stock of where I am and what I want to accomplish in the new year. And as I get older ‘living a fulfilled life’ is something that is usually at the forefront of my thoughts, especially in terms of my career. Living […]
Originally posted on F-Secure’s blog: https://blog.f-secure.com/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-mentorship-program-as-a-mentor-or-mentee/ I have been privileged to be part of mentorship programs from varying perspectives, from being a mentee, mentor, to an organizer. The first time I took part in a mentorship program was in 2017 as a mentee. It was at a time when I was looking to transition from […]
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 […]
In this post I share the latest in my quest for continuous learning. This time, I experimented with the Pipeline class by scikit learn to see on its advantages. I applied it to a machine learning task that I previously worked on, churn prediction. From my reading, using Pipeline is supposed to be simple, yet […]
I believe good motivational and encouraging words are always needed – to give us that extra push when and if we need it. Thus my first post in 2018 is going to be just about that – some motivational and encouraging words for the year ahead. The motivational words are not mine but I like […]
With all the hype around chatbots, I was glad to get a chance to actually get some experience in developing one. A few weeks ago, within our Immerstive Automation project, we had Nick Diakopoulos, an Associate Professor in computational and data journalism, lead a workshop on creating chatbots. I was very excited to get to build […]
During the Tech Research Showcase I attended a few weeks ago, someone asked me to guide them to some materials to start learning and doing some natural language processing and text analysis as a beginner. Text analysis, text mining, and natural language processing (NLP) are fields that all deal with mining and analyzing textual data to discover […]