Basics of Machine Learning Using R — Machine Learning algorithms are used in a wide variety of applications and among them is the healthcare industry. According to Wikipedia, Machine Learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference…

How to conduct text analysis using R Introduction. The Lion King (2019) is a movie that has dominated box office charts since its release. Moreover, an interesting music album “The Lion King: The Gift” was released to accompany the 1994 movie remake. On July 19, 2019, The Lion King(2019 film) was theatrically released in the United States and…

In a previous article on ‘Forest and Tree Statistics in Kenya’ (https://medium.com/@wanjirumaggie45/forest-and-tree-statistics-in-kenya-using-r-6cfa9f67ea9b), we looked at Kenya’s current forest cover which stands at 7.6 %. The analysis was based on this data set: https://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/archive/Kenya.htm. The results were okay but they got me thinking about delving deeper into the…

Introduction Imagine you are a data scientist/ data enthusiast and you are really curious to know what people online are saying about a new product you just launched. Now, you most definitely introduced a hashtag whereby anyone who sees the hashtag can click on it and be brought to a page…

According to KeNRA (Natural Resources Alliance of Kenya), from an international view, Kenya is a low forest cover country considering that it has less than 10 per cent of the total land area classified as forest as recommended by the United Nations. The country’s forest cover is now said to…

As at 2018, with Kenya’s public debt crossing the Sh5 trillion mark, this meant that every Kenyan would now owe the lending institutions at least Sh110,000, this is according to Daily Nation. Hence, I sought out to find out the outstanding bilateral debt of the lending countries. I used the…

From Part 1 of the mapping series, we loaded shapefiles into R and plotted the Kenyan map based on the given county coordinates(the shapefiles GEO folder). Here, we will extract the Kenyan Map from the world map data. The world map can be obtained as a base map of the…

I was once sent a zipped folder named shapefiles Geo and I honestly didn’t know what to do with it. As we all do, I first downloaded the folder and saved them on my desktop. I then unzipped the folder and on opening it, there were 3 Microsoft Excel CSV…

“Tidy Tuesday is a weekly social data project in R. Every week Thomas Mock; https://twitter.com/thomas_mock and the R for Data Science Community; https://twitter.com/R4DScommunity post a new dataset and ask R users to explore it and share their findings on Twitter with #TidyTuesday. Since the first dataset was posted on April…