Jacques CoetzeeTragedy of and hope for the commons: Part 1Self-financed contract enforcement for governanceNov 14, 2021Nov 14, 2021
Jacques CoetzeeAuto fake news classifier using headlinesThe final model used to classify fake news has a weighted average F₁ score of 85% and above.Oct 11, 2020Oct 11, 2020
Jacques CoetzeeThe state of Google Play Store — a data approachEarlier this year I started learning the basics of app development using Flutter. The goal being able to eventually publish a — not only…Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020
Jacques CoetzeeThis Airbnb data will make you think twice about Cape Town accommodation costsThis is my first post in a while. Since I started as a data fellow at the Mail & Guardian, all my writing has gone onto its platforms. I…Sep 2, 2019Sep 2, 2019
Jacques CoetzeeinTowards Data ScienceDataVis Battle Entry: Getting to know my PokémonThis is my second entry to the DataVis challenge on Reddit. Data source: Kaggle and Bulbepedia for images. All the graphics are done in…Sep 22, 2018Sep 22, 2018
Jacques CoetzeeinTowards Data ScienceDataViz Battle entry: Analysing airline data from the TSAThis is my second Medium post on data analytics. Given the nature of the Reddit contest, the below focuses on the visualisation of the data…Aug 27, 20181Aug 27, 20181
Jacques CoetzeeinTowards Data ScienceAnalysing SA gov’s wasteful expenditure using Tabula and PandasA first post on some data analytics, looking at irregular government expenditure, specifically contract requests for deviations and…Aug 13, 20181Aug 13, 20181
Jacques CoetzeeWhy you should continue to stomp, scream and stand up to make the most of SA’s democracyNelson Mandela is quite notorious today — in some circles at least. Many South Africans feel that they’ve been sold out, with their parents…Aug 27, 2017Aug 27, 2017