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 […]

Only 2 universities and zero computer science departments in Africa are in the top 200 in the QS rankings

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 […]

Who has appeared the most with whom in Oscar nominated movies? – this and other results

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 […]