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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…
Dec 26, 2018
Aaron Simumba
0 min

DataHack4Fi twitter data

datahack4fi
twitter
analysis
Scraping twitter data based on discussion under the #datahack4fi tag.
Nov 11, 2018
Aaron Simumba
0 min

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…
Nov 7, 2018
Aaron Simumba
0 min

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…
Feb 24, 2018
Aaron Simumba
1 min

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

blogdown
R
hugo
This post was originally submitted to the Rbind support website.
Feb 19, 2018
Aaron Simumba
4 min

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 a Tableau public visualization has…
Nov 12, 2017
Aaron Simumba
1 min

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…
Oct 12, 2017
Aaron Simumba
6 min

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…
Oct 6, 2017
Aaron Simumba
1 min

Mapping the Location of Twitter Followers and Following in R

Twitter data mining
It is always…
Oct 2, 2017
Aaron Simumba
4 min

Mobile and Internet Penetration in Zambia

In this post, I take an…
Sep 27, 2017
Aaron Simumba
12 min

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…
Sep 13, 2017
Aaron Simumba
1 min

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…
Aug 25, 2017
Aaron Simumba
3 min

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…
Jul 3, 2017
Aaron Simumba
1 min

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

In the next…
Apr 6, 2017
Aaron Simumba
6 min

Stocks Portfolio Analysis

google
apple
msft
Detailed stock analysis process.
Mar 17, 2017
Aaron Simumba
4 min
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