Violence Against Women : We can do more than tweet
On last weeks post on Nation’s Newsplex, we featured an analytics post on the perception of women issues on social media. The link to the post can be found here: https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinegendercampaigns/2718262-5368756-fpvkmz/index.html
Democracy and Rights Festival 2019
On this year’s edition of the Democracy and Rights Festival, I was invited to make a presentation on data around extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Nation Media Groups data journalism segment Nation Newsplex created the Deadly Force Database , a database of extrajudicial killings based on public, media, and human rights reports and on official records ...
2nd Africa Innovation Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Summit
The 2nd Annual Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Summit will take place in Nairobi on 4 – 5 February 2020. The event brings together some of the top CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Heads of IT, ICT, Risk, Compliance, Retail Banking, Customer Experience, Analytics etc. from Banks, Micro-Finance, Credit Unions & Insurance companies across East Africa. I ...
Who is to Blame for Ethiopian Airline Crash?
What’s the probability that the Ethiopian flight 320 was Boeings error? https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/2718262-5024656-13r6oljz/index.html
Why You Need a Lawyer to Register your Trademark
KIPI receives a myriad of applications for registration of trade marks in a year. Normally, a smooth trade mark registration process takes about four(4)-six(6) months. The process may however face challenges such as refusal by the Registrar of trade marks or objections of the application by third parties. In such instances, an applicant is allowed ...
Explaining Causality with Independence Heroes
Does A cause B? That has been a question statisticians and philosophers have been attempting to answer. It is indeed not a trivial task to prove causation between two events. Philosopher David Hume in his 1748 book ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’ provided an idea to define causation, it was known as The Counterfactual Theory of ...
Is Athletics a Worthwhile Career?
A Kenyan athlete wins about three in 10 career races. Does that translate to a worthy career? https://www.nation.co.ke/kenyanathletes
Emerging Dialects Among Kenyans on Twitter
New ways Kenyans on Twitter are communicating https://www.nation.co.ke/twitterdialects
How People Cheat
Analysis of how participants in an international innovation competition attempted to cheat their way to the prize money. https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinevoting/2718262-4684756-tub3gp/index.html
A Working Paper on Kenya’s E-Commerce Sector
The Kenyan e-commerce sector has been a death bed for many startups – both large and small companies have failed in a bid to launch viable online businesses. Google’s Getting Kenyan Businesses Online failed to gain traction, Mocality (an online business directory)lacked a sustainable revenue stream and had to shutdown, Sahara books didn’t have enough ...
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