Establishing relationships between Members of Parliament (MP) and topics. Introduction The previous article established relationships between MPs by looking at names co-mentioned in the news. This time, the aim is to perform topic modelling from those news articles. Topic modelling is a technique used in natural language processing to identify the…

Note: This is part of a report submitted for a course assessment during my Master’s Degree. Most textual parts are removed. Problem Statement A fictional company is planning to open a store in London. The company’s assumption is to sell high-end bicycles targeted at high-income earners’ demography. The initial intention is to…

Introduction A visualisation of Members of Parliament’s (MP) relationships based on mentions in news articles could take the form of a network diagram (a.k.a. graph). The diagram would show each MP as a node, with lines connecting them representing both MPs being mentioned together in an article. The thickness of the…

Disclaimer: This is not political. Just a data analysis for fun. Introduction In an ideal world, all the important information has been assembled and curated for use in a nice and orderly fashion. But they are not. Therefore, the skill to collect and present data is useful. Here, I present the…

A scientific standard One of the perks of being enrolled in a university is the access to the libraries and most importantly the scientific journals. Regrettably, libraries are now still out of reach. At every opportunity, I will try to cite a scientific source on any idea or speculation to elevate them from…

Jim Hacker: All we get from the civil service is delaying tactics. Humphrey: Well, I wouldn’t call civil service delays “tactics”, Minister. That would be to mistake lethargy for strategy Quoted from the satire comedy Yes, Minister of the 80's. Or is it? How many times do we do this? Purposely procrastinate because…

In the spur of the moment, I got inspired to write this piece while researching for an assignment on Data Governance subject. I suddenly found it a little bit funny that every single subject that I took in this master degree led me to different places. …