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Data in the iron mask: How to protect important and sensitive information
🎠This is a special post co-authored with Matthew Yerbury and Nicholas Biller, friends from HSBC’s People Data Science team. We use a Hollywood film from the 1990s to introduce the concept of data masking in a fun way!
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When Emojis Meet Data
Aren’t charts supposed to be serious and professional looking? Not always, as I found out. About a year ago, I signed up to give a presentation on visualising the harmful effects of drugs.
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R & Python Tutorial: Get Your Bar Charts in Order
📊 Bar charts are one of the most common methods for displaying data. However, bar charts are not always created optimally. In this post, I’ll share R and Python code that you can use to create accurate, informative and attractive bar charts easily.
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How to Display Data in the Business World
This is a special post co-authored with my colleague, Rachael Dottle who is a Data Visualization Specialist with the IBM Data Science Elite team. We share simple tips to produce charts that are accurate, meaningful and attractive for a business audience.
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What do girls study? Answers to a longstanding question
Many years ago, while I was a student in a polytechnic, I would come across a frequent topic of intense sociological debate among many of my (male) peers: ‘Where are all the girls (studying)?
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Hospital Bed Numbers: How does Singapore compare with the OECD?
In 2014, the main Singapore newspaper reported that public hospitals were facing a ‘severe bed crunch’ and putting patients in ‘beds along corridors, with just curtains to give them privacy’ when demand spikes.
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3 surprising trends in Singapore's fertility rate
For a country to survive and prosper, its population needs to produce enough children to replace itself. To achieve this, each woman has to give birth to at least 2 (living) children during her childbearing years.
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The highest car prices in the world?
Singapore is the most expensive place in the world to own a car, according to a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Currently, buying a new Toyota Corolla would cost around SGD $100,000 (~USD $75,000), and you can only own it for 10 years.
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Are there more males or females in Singapore?
Try to guess. Are there more males or females in Singapore? What about across each ethnic group? Read on and compare your answers to the data provided by the Singapore Department of Statistics!
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The changing number of citizens, permanent residents, and non-residents in Singapore
Have you ever wondered: How many people are there in Singapore? How many citizens, permanent residents, and non-residents are there? How have these numbers changed over the years?
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