Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain.
Siyazana is an isiZulu word that means we know each other or we are connected. This website has been designed to provide users with a tool to investigate the connections that exist between the private and public spheres in South Africa. Accessible at https://siyazana.co.za
openAFRICA aims to be largest independent repository of open data on the African continent. This repo contains the primary deployment scripts and files. Accessible at https://openafrica.net/
HURUmap is an interactive web platform that allows citizens and journalists to explore, visualise, and download census data. This gives them the power to give context to stories that was otherwise hard to spot. Accessible at https://hurumap.org
#AlertME is a geo-aware web platform that is working to make it easier for everyone to get invloved in decisions made about the environment around them. Accessible at https://greenalert.oxpeckers.org/
This repository contains the script and figures of the conference paper selected for presentation at the Latin American Conference of Computationa Intelligence 2018. The abstract of the paper is as follows: Crime is an important social and economic problem of South Africa. Though certain categories of crimes are of serious proportions, yet on aggregate the overall crime situation in the country has considerably improved in the last decade or so. A number of previous studies across other countries have shown a positive or negative relationship between crime and economic growth. On a microeconomic/provincial scale, this paper studies the relationship between various categories of crimes and economic growth using the non-linear modeling technique of Generalized Additive Models. Such a modeling approach helps in understanding how various categories of crimes complexly affect GDP.
Protests and agitations have long used as means for showing dissident towards social, political and economic issues in civil societies. In recent years we have witnessed a large number of protests across various geographies. Not to be left behind by similar trends in the rest of the world, South Africa, in recent years have witnessed a large number of protests. This paper uses the English text description of the protests to predict their time spans/durations. The descriptions consist of multiple causes of the protests, courses of actions etc. Next we used unsupervised (topic modeling) and supervised learning (decision trees) to predict the duration of protests. The results are very promising and close to 90% of accuracy in early predicting of the duration of protests.
CoronaFighter is a tool and an initiative: a tool for you to track symptoms and an initiative to reduce pressure on medical facilities, reduce deaths and track the evolution of the disease in South Africa.
