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Deploying Metabase through Heroku App

In this mini project, I deployed my first Metabase through the Heroku App. Metabase is an open source business intelligence engine. It allows for company wide sharing of…

DataHack4Fi twitter data

datahack4fi

twitter

analysis

Scraping twitter data based on discussion under the #datahack4fi tag.

African Markets indices tracker

Stock market

African Markets indices performance tracker. A minimal project tracking selected African markets indices. The data used in the dashboard comes from the African Markets websit…

Money is everything, but you haven’t met Open Source Software maintainers

open sourse

For profit centred enterprises, it is not surprising when you encounter their overly aggressive marketing campaigns, which mostly have an end result of them trying to…

Thoughts to Words - An Introduction to Aaron Simumba’s Website

blogdown

R

hugo

This post was originally submitted to the Rbind support website.

Demo: Embedding Tableau public Visualizations

Through Tableau public integration

In this short demo, I implement how to embed Tableau public visualizations on the personal website.This implementation is achieved through using iframe. The embed link from…

Breathing life back into PDF presented Data

Implementation through Tabulizer

rmarkdown

It is almost not surprising to find most of the summarised data is presented in the form of a report - whose format is mainly Portable Document Format (PDF). The challenge…

Let twitter do the job

One of the most exciting things I’ve been able to do in the past few months, has been my rekindled interest in blogging. No matter how trivial the idea that comes to mind…

Mapping the Location of Twitter Followers and Following in R

Twitter data mining

It is always nice to capture how wide and dense your twitter interactions spread. More so, the spread and locations of your twitter followers and those you are following.…

Mobile and Internet Penetration in Zambia

In this post, I take an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) of the mobile phone and internet user data statistics for Zambia. Making use of the Zambia Information and…

How to resolve hugo version conflicts with the default version on netlify

There is nothing as frustrating as getting stuck with a computer operation/code bug, which you know no better how to get around it. That was my frustration while trying to…

One Year Anniversary

reflections

The 26 August 2017 marks exactly one year since embarking on learning the R programming language. A year ago I had neither the foresight nor will strength of believing I…

Building a Website with Blogdown and Hugo

hugo

R

In this short post. I will detail my journey building my website using blogdown an R package that makes use of the static website generator Hugo. This is a great R package…

What’s in the numbers: A look at the Lusaka Securities Exchange

In the next coming few weeks, I plan to do a series of posts specifically targeted at the Lusaka Securities Exchange (LuSE). Essentially, this idea came to mind after…

Stocks Portfolio Analysis

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apple

msft

Detailed stock analysis process.