To fully appreciate this post, kindly read; The story and background The application process After successfully gaining admission, I immediately went on a supervisor hunt. Here is a summary with timelines; Started reaching out to supervisors. Reached out to my current supervisor on November 20 2020 after rejection from other supervisors. Had my interview on […]
The Journey: On Admission to the University of New Brunswick
Kindly read the background to fully appreciate this post I would like to share about the application process when applying to UNB, the document check and elaborate of the different document variations while applying. University of New Brunswick For every school I applied to, I was attracted by their curriculum. You are going to study […]
The Journey: On Admission, Seasoned Supervisor and Funding
This is the point where I get to take a big sigh of relief. Indeed, It’s been five years coming, people! Five years of applying to schools, not giving up, not losing hope, sleepless nights, crying, praying, trusting, hoping and believing. It’s been five good years pursuing this – putting in my all and giving […]
How I Got The Opportunity To Work As A Data Analyst With The United Nations
Well, you heard me right; I work with the UN. And yes, I’m thrilled and delighted, and ultimately grateful. I must admit it still feels like a dream, unbelievable at best. In this post, I’ll share the process of how I got the role as a Data Analyst with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), […]
EDA and V-EDA Tutorial 4 – COVID-19 Comparative Analysis and Visualization
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well and staying safe? The support has been incredible and I appreciate each and everyone of you. Background If you have been following this tutorial series you would know the background. We are basically trying to analyze the COVID-19 data set based on an HTML Jupyter Notebook […]
EDA and V-EDA Tutorial 3 – Covid-19 Data visualization using Plotly Maps
As earlier stated in my earlier related post, this is going to be a series of tutorials to analyze the COVID-19 data set. In this third tutorial of the series, we will be plotting the COVID-19 results from the questions from the Jupyter Notebook of the research paper using Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). What is Data Visualization? Data Visualization is […]
EDA and V-EDA Tutorial 2: Exploratory Data Analysis using Pandas
I know this pandemic is a difficult time for everybody but I hope you are safe and well? Kindly adhere to the directives given by the experts and we will come out of this unscathed. Please, don’t forget to wash your hands regularly with soap under running water, sanitize when there is no water, practice social […]
EDA and V-EDA Tutorial 1: Data Collection and Preprocessing
This is going to be a series where I try to analyze the COVID-19 data set based on a research paper I found. The data set was analyzed using Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) methods and visualization model in the hope to help increase the situational awareness among the mass community.In this first part of the series, we will work on getting the data in the best format to help us with an efficient EDA and also replicate what we have in the research paper using techniques like melting, concatenating, etc…
Introduction to Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup from a Covid-19 website.
One thing I have been learning a lot about over the past few years is the importance of data in our world today. From running a small business to predicting events in the future, with the right set of data, you can attain your desired results. The cool thing too about data is that it is always available and always growing and this alone makes a field worth considering. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus, most of us have had to know what is happening and we have visited sites to get the latest numbers. For our very first lesson, we will be scraping data on Coronavirus from the popular Worldometers.info….