Collaboration, representation, and the celebration of the diversity of cultures are among the key values of Think Africa. To enable that, an overview of the ecosystem, the players, history, and their location is essential. Finland is home to a thriving African diaspora community that constitutes around 1% of the population (57 496, Statistics Finland 2020). […]
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 […]
Here is a look at my latest Tableau project, building images of my daughter using charts with a little bit of interactivity >> See it HERE Always cool learning the capabilities of Tableau and visualisation of data. I borrowed from the work done by Alexander Varlamov (on coolbluedata.com) and tailored it to images of my […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]