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). […]

Chart portraits of my daughter in Tableau

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 […]

Importance of Communication and Visualization Skills in Data Science

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, […]

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 […]