- 5th December, 2017
Once Upon A Time
It being that time of year, I thought I would cast my gaze backwards a few decades in order to provide some context as to how we have arrived at the …
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- 28th November, 2017
Introducing Emma
The natural vegetation around Cape Town, South Africa, is one of the richest repositories of plant life in the world. This ecosystem is under threat.
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- 23rd November, 2017
What Zimbabweans are Talking About
The extraordinary events of the last few days that saw the resignation of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, have caused an outpouring of emotion by …
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- 21st November, 2017
Nurturing Young Talent
About my internship at Ixio Analytics in Cape Town where the data scientists strive to build data science capacity across Africa.
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- 14th November, 2017
Lessons on Integration
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin
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- 7th November, 2017
The Hex, The Curse and The Recurse
They say repetition creates mastery.
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- 31st October, 2017
Machine Learning vs Statistics : Culture clash?
Scientists are mainly interested in inference - the relationship between predictors and outcomes. Data scientists are mostly interested in prediction.
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- 24th October, 2017
The Terrorist Shopper
At first glance, a heavily indoctrinated terrorist could not be further removed from a young mother browsing shop windows on a Saturday morning.
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- 17th October, 2017
Don’t Test This on Your Children
A few scientists have been known to experiment on their own children - one such scientist being a psychologist interested in the laugh response.
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