We made it to 2018! And if you’re reading this so did you. Congratulations! This year promises to be a great one for us. We are excited to finally launch our revolutionary products and bring them to market. After many hours of brainstorming, deliberation and testing with our software engineering team, we are finally proud …
It is by no mistake that water makes up approximately 71% of the whole universe and about 65% of human body. It is clear that water is vital for survival and a key component in most activities. Water is often an underestimated resource. It is clearly a game changer. Just too much or too little of …
In his famous quote, Nelson Mandela stated that “Poverty is not an accident like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.” In 2015, Kenya was ranked 6th among the top 10 countries in the region South of Sahara and North of River Limpopo with many people …
Poverty Levels in Kenya: How does it correlate with Election-related Matters?Read More »
As some of you may have heard, Kenya climbed 12 spots, to come in at 80th position out of 190 countries and third in Africa, in The World Bank Group’s Ease of Doing Business Index. This shows that Kenya is the third most competitive economy in Africa after Mauritius and Rwanda. However, this standing on the index may …
Today marks DataScience Limited’s 4th Birthday. What started simply as a Blog, has over the years flourished into a self-sustaining Data Analytics and Research company, that has worked with a range of clients in many interesting sectors of governance and elections, floriculture, education, health analytics, retail analytics to mention but a few. Our clients are …
In the current digital era, where transactions have turned paperless, organizations are generating tonnes of data. Large volumes of excel sheets containing raw data are pulled out from the organizations’ systems at the close of business every day. To make meaningful insights from these sets of data, data analytics is used. From raw data sheet… …
Data Analytics: Tapping the hidden potential of Data!Read More »
The 2017 Kenyan General Election has been regarded as the Social Media Election. The mobile network providers must be smiling all the way to the bank with all the videos, GIFs and WhatsApp messages that were circulating the web space; Tweets being retweeted; Facebook posts being posted; and bloggers churning posts with their two cents and …
Does Online Popularity Translate to Winning Votes?Read More »
“Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”according to McKinsey Global Institute report on Big Data. Yes, these are the times that we live in. A lot of data is collected day in day out by various companies and individuals (yes, your undeleted text messages count), but the biggest question then is, what …
I hold conversations very frequently with friends about local digital content in Kenya/ Africa, and how we do not produce enough of it. Today, thinking about it, we produce just enough local digital content, we just do not store enough of it locally to have any influence, and we don’t even know it. What this …
Once again, our democratic system is directing us back to the polling booths. It is the election period. The campaign trail is almost climaxing, with all politicians moving from the capital city to the grassroots level (including the president). No one called them back home, but the power of the “VOTE” commands respect whenever its …
