R enthusiast, Phd Sentometrics, https://xitter.cf/t.co/DRPIklLzmP.Scientist(Econometrician), Wine snob, Proudly South African 🇿🇦
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined February 2017
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Exciting launch of a new project hot off the press. There is something for everyone here: #EconTwitter for a new data source and #RStats for the use of R packages in #NLP. For launch of R and python interface follow @TimeTravelData
First working paper is out from @MoradiAlexander, @Edkerby and @UbuntR314:
African Time Traveller - what we learn from 500 years of written accounts.
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Congratulations to @CentralBankRw on the launch of its Financial Inclusion Dashboard! With @71point4, we're proud to have supported this initiative by developing data pipelines & refining key indicators. We're excited to see how stakeholders use the dashboard for decision-making.
During #MPFSS2025, the National Bank of #Rwanda launched the Financial Inclusion Dashboard—an interactive platform that provides weekly updates on disaggregated financial inclusion data.
The Dashboard offers policymakers, financial service providers, and other stakeholders high frequent insights into key indicators such as overall inclusion, savings, credit, and insurance.
For more info, click on this link: fininclusion.bnr.rw/inclusio…
#MPFSS2025
#BNREngage
#KnowYourCentralBank
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I just released Coding for Economists v1.0.2. This update fixes a lot of minor issues and switches to Astral's uv (@astral_sh) as the recommended package manager. We have some new contributors too. And, big news, CfE also hit 750 stars! ⭐⭐⭐
aeturrell.github.io/coding-f…
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The official Gl mark guarantees that the lamb truly comes from the Karoo veldt.
#Karoo #KarooLamb #LambLovers #SouthAfricanLamb #LambRecipe #MeatLovers #GrassFedLamb #SustainableMeat #FarmToTable #LambChops #BarbecueLamb #Karoo #KarooRegion #CapeTownEats #SouthAfricaFood
ALT The official Gl mark guarantees that the lamb truly comes from the Karoo veldt.
Amazing opportunity to come and showcase research at the intersection of text analysis, economics, and history!
📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. @ellliottt @phinifa @essobecker
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What to learn from 712 journeys of 605 travellers to Africa?
Article summary by @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander & Odendaal in @EcHistSocReview :
African Time Travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)
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The BER, together with @71point4, has compiled a data snapshot that provides an overview of firms submitting, employment and industry trends, and workforce movements. You can find this on our website's Public Interest Research section.
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Come see @alexmoradi present a new paper on “Narratives from European-African Encounters (1400 - 1900)” at the @EcHistSoc. A 🧵 on this fascinating, ground-breaking research.
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'We can avoid our seemingly inevitable descent into more economic misery.'
So says André de Ruyter, former @Eskom_SA CEO, in a new series where I interview business intellectuals.
In this wide-ranging interview, I ask De Ruyter about where he would go if he was given a one-time-use time machine, whether there is a new Cold War brewing between the USA and China, what #SouthAfrica can learn from JFK's focus on technological advancement, and much more.
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The SARB MPC meets next week for the first repo rate decision of the year. The consensus is that the interest rate will be left unchanged. But, the big uncertainty for 2024 is around the timing for the first interest rate cut - what are your expectations?
24%First half of 2024
35%Third quarter of 2024
18%Fourth quarter of 2024
24%The SARB won't cut soon
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Another South African company doing cool things: fibertime.
Households pay R5 for 24 hours of fast fiber internet. The company started in Kayamandi and it seems like it’s been very successful there and now going elsewhere.
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If you're a South African student looking for a paid Dec & Jan internship at an AI start-up, look no further than @NosibleAI. We've got a few projects open:
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P.S. If you think your network might be interested, please do me a huge solid and RT this thread 🙏🏻
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Sharing this because it's not getting nearly enough love: quartodoc, by @chowthedog
Build quarto websites integrated with Sphinx autodoc. This means hosting documentation that is beautiful & consistent with code just got a lot easier
#datascience
github.com/machow/quartodoc
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[NEW BLOG] Infra structure, not top structure. In our blog this week we argue for the need to support the quality of housing delivered by informal supply chains through investment in infrastructure and services
71point4.com/infra-structure…
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If you missed the @carteblanchetv episode on South Africa’s reading crisis, here is the full 13-min episode: youtu.be/M0-ori7ZNJc
When 81% of SA Grade 4’s cannot read in any language, it’s not an overstatement to call it a crisis. We know what to do, @DBE_SA needs to act
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Professor Nic Spaull is an Education Economist at Stellenbosch University. Amid a reading crisis in SA, he has a strong message for the Minister of Basic Education: the time for talk is over. #CarteBlanche @clairemawisa
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Data can help. There are a number of new data sources that, if effectively leveraged, can allow insight into parts of the transport system that were previously difficult to understand.
@cenfri_org ll @71point4
buff.ly/3nqwisB
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Here is a new paper from the Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers by @Edkerby, @MoradiAlexander, and @UbuntR314 on “African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?” ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f1… @OAOxford #twitterstorians #econhist