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What is R?
R is an open-source programming language created explicitly for statistical computing and graphics. Ross and Robert Gentleman started R...
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HURU School Software Team
- Feb 15, 2022
- 3 min
State of the OS's - The 5 Most Popular Operating Systems
An operating system is the software behind managing and running a computer system's hardware and resources. The OS sits between applications
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HURU School Academic Team
- Oct 22, 2021
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Reflecting on a Year of Tremendous Growth
At HURU School we work to reflect on our efforts to inspire the next generation of African thought leaders in various spaces. We judge...
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HURU School Data Science Program
- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
Two Crucial Tools for Data Scientists in 2022
Apart from having appropriate qualifications and education, an aspiring data scientist must be skilled at a certain set of tools. He must...
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HURU School Data Science Program
- May 4, 2021
- 1 min
Data Science Alumni uses Skills to address child health outcomes in Tanzania
HURU School data science alumni Qondeni Ndlagamandla from South Africa carried out a data science project on Anaemia discovering...
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HURU School
- Apr 10, 2021
- 1 min
Kenya's Leading Data Scientist - Chris Orwa speaks at HURU School
Kenya leading Data Scientist Chris Orwa talked about the state of data scientist in Kenya to the graduating class of January 2021
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HURU School
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
First Education survey from all over Africa
HURU School through its Data Science Department carried out an African wide survey to determine what was useful for African learners and...
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HURU School Data Science Program
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
Structured Query Language(SQL)
SQL is a database querying languag used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system...
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HURU School Communications
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
HURU School Data Science African Scholars for January 2021
HURU School mission is to empower individuals to make impact in their communities and organisations. For this reason, in October 2020 the...
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HURU School Communications
- Jan 12, 2021
- 1 min
Our inaugural Data Science Class starts in Africa
The much awaited inaugural data science HURU School Scholarship class of Jan 2021 officially kicked off on Monday the 11th of December....
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Benadette Wambui
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Regression in Data Science
Regression is one of the simplest, popular and useful statistical method used in many disciplines for prediction. that attempts to...
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Benadette Wambui
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
SQL as a language to read, write, query and modify a database
Structured Query Language (SQL) is an indispensable skill in the data science industry and generally speaking, learning this skill is...
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Benadette Wambui
- Jan 7, 2021
- 4 min
Useful Libraries in the R Programming Language
In addition to providing robust statistical computing, R offers a huge collection, over 16 thousand to be exact, of highly resourceful...
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Benadette Wambui
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
Differences between Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Machine Learning is one of the most trending technologies in the field of artificial intelligence. It involves the use of algorithms that...
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Benadette Wambui
- Dec 25, 2020
- 2 min
Data Science Programming Languages : R vs Python
The R vs Python debate is one of the most common but important questions asked by lots of data scientists. We know that R and Python both...
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Benadette Wambui
- Dec 24, 2020
- 1 min
What to do with Electronic, Medical and Health Data
An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a...
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Benadette Wambui
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Data collection using web scraping techniques
Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may...
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Benadette Wambui
- Dec 24, 2020
- 3 min
Data Science Education in Africa
Data science is relatively new and is an interdisciplinary field which is a blend of statistics, computer science, mathematics,...
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Benadette Wambui
- Dec 21, 2020
- 3 min
Data Visualisation tools for Companies
Data visualisation is a trans disciplinary field that deals with the graphic representation of data. It is the most efficient method of...
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HURU School
- Dec 14, 2020
- 1 min
Understand Data Cleaning in Data Science?
Data cleaning is the process of detecting and removing errors so as to improve the quality of your data. Otherwise, you end up having...
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