Unlocking Finland’s African Non-Profit Ecosystem

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). […]

Interactive visualization of the Shark Tank deals: a Shiny App

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 […]

Part II: Data analysis of the Africa, Europe, and Asia-Pacific 2018 Index of Economic Freedom data

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 […]

Data analysis of the Africa, Europe, and Asia-Pacific 2018 Index of Economic Freedom data – Part I

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 […]