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In this talk, I will present an automated Sub-Saharan Africa economic indicator monitoring service (AMS) written in Python. AMS collects raw data such as inflation, GDP, and investment figures from the World bank API; processes the information; and present…

• data
• open-data
• python
• scraping

Chances are, you've heard about stream processing frameworks such as Spark and Storm. While popular, these tools are complex and usually overkill. This talk will show that you don't have to struggle with bloated frameworks to process data streams. In the p…

• data
• functional-programming
• python
• riko
• stream-processing

This talk will demonstrate how to use Python to efficiently analyze GeoJSON data. Additionally, it will introduce meza: a pure python, data analysis library and alternative to Pandas. Complete with various examples, I wil…

• data
• functional-programming
• geojson
• meza
• python

This talk will showcase various data science tools and processes from screen scraping to functional programming. Assuming the role of agent 0111, you the audience will traverse a series of case studies and demonstrations to unravel a mystery.

• data
• functional-programming
• python
• riko
• scraping

In our day long event, we will give Arushans from all walks of life the chance to describe the issues they face surrounding open budgets and spending.

• data
• finance
• open-data
• python

Attendees will learn what streams are, how to process them, and the benefits of stream processing. They will also see that most data isn't 'big data' and therefore doesn't require complex (java) systems (cough spark and storm cough) to process …

• data
• functional-programming
• python
• riko
• stream-processing