Hanjo Odendaal
@UbuntR314
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R enthusiast, Phd Sentometrics, https://t.co/DRPIklLzmP.Scientist(Econometrician), Wine snob, Proudly South African 🇿🇦
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined February 2017
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
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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! ⭐⭐⭐ https://t.co/2sf2oSe0u2
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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
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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 ( https://t.co/WFH0h21mOJ)
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Analytics reports are coming to your Ploomber apps! You'll get a detailed look at visitors and requests to understand and grow usage. Stay tuned for the released announcement!
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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
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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?
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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: 🧵 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
https://t.co/dh5MAbh6Vf
github.com
Generate API documentation with quarto. Contribute to machow/quartodoc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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 https://t.co/5pgKUUvKFM
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If you missed the @carteblanchetv episode on South Africa’s reading crisis, here is the full 13-min episode: https://t.co/T6OmYbCdoX 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
https://t.co/RJlspTuyJn
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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?” https://t.co/lvHsYh7WSz
@OAOxford #twitterstorians #econhist
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