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Exploring Climate And Health
May 24, 2022
A new research project is setting out to unlock the potential of combining health monitoring data with climate datasets that...
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#tidytuesday Showcase
November 29, 2021
The past month showed a flurry of activities around three things dear to our hearts - African data, maps, and...
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Afrimapr Joins Online Learning Community
September 07, 2021
Developing good maps in R is about much more than just knowledge of mapping packages and strategies. It all starts...
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Afrimapr Community Meetups
September 01, 2021
In May 2021 the afrimapr team launched a monthly community meetup for people interested in R, mapping, and African data....
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User! Tutorial Teaching Strategy
August 03, 2021
On 7 July 2021, we ran a 4 hour tutorial at useR! 2021 called “Entry level R maps from...
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Feedback From Our User! Tutorial
August 03, 2021
On 7 July 2021, we ran a 4 hour tutorial at useR!2021 called “Entry level R maps from African...
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Africovid For Subnational Covid Visualisation
May 27, 2021
Here we demonstrate how R can be used to make sub-national COVID-19 data for selected African countries more usable. In...
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Afrimapr Showcase
May 06, 2021
Back in March we hosted a showcase and Q&A during Open Education Week. The aim was to share the vision...
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Afrimapr @ Open Education Week
February 24, 2021
Next week afrimapr will run a 45 min introduction and Q&A session, showcasing our materials and inviting input.
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Interactive Tutorials For African Maps
February 04, 2021
In this post we present a series of new interactive learnr tutorials we are working on to support the...
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Data For Teaching
November 27, 2020
In the afrimapr project we aim to help develop R spatial data skills in Africa. We are developing tutorials and...
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Admin Boundaries
October 09, 2020
Administrative boundaries are special data. Almost by definition, local decisions tend to be made with respect to administrative units....
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Visualisation To Improve Data Quality
August 25, 2020
In this post Nompumelelo Mtsweni, an independent web developer, working with the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) group...
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African Open Health Facility Data
May 29, 2020
This blog post is a shorter version of the full report that includes R code, readme files, data descriptions...
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Merging Health Facility Lists Part1
April 16, 2020
This blog post is a shorter version of the full report that includes R code, readme files, data descriptions...
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Healthsites App
March 26, 2020
We aim to improve access to the best-available health facility data for Africa to support the response to the coronavirus...
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Satrday Presentation
March 23, 2020
Earlier this month afrimapr was the opening presentation at satRday Joburg 2020 in South Africa. It was wonderful to...
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Satrdays Johannesburg 2020
February 20, 2020
The R community and some of South Africa’s most forward thinking companies have come together to bring satRday back for...
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Kickoff Meeting
January 10, 2020
On 9 January 2020 the afrimapr project kicked off with it’s first team meeting.