I left my brief vacation in Liberia, to start working in Ghana. I began with one week in Accra. It was the warmest time of the year, and I’ve never found heat so exhausting. Here, it wasn’t only the temperature. There was also a humidity, and the pollution of a large, dense city full ofContinue reading “hunting for data in the capital of Ghana (beginning of April)”
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glimpses of a fall: … but I’m feeling 22
Sure, there was a roadtrip and talks and a play, but most of my time I spent sitting in front of my two computer screens, searching for, cleaning, structuring and visualizing data on demographics, education, household economics and agricultural production in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Visualizing data into maps is a pretty simple thing ifContinue reading “glimpses of a fall: … but I’m feeling 22”
the jungle of West African statistics
I’m cleaning data. Tracing changes to Ghana’s district divisions, trying to make different datasets match. Data collected by different ministries is not always consistent, district names are spelled differently, districts having been split means data collected at different times needs to be merged. Having several spreadsheets and a GIS open at once on my two screens,Continue reading “the jungle of West African statistics”
the use of the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the statistician
A bit more than a week ago, I attended Utvecklingsforum 2015 [Development forum 2015], a yearly event arranged by the Swedish international development and cooperation agency Sida. Quite naturally, the subject of this years event was the Sustainable Development Goals. My boss, Johan Rockström, was one of the keynote speakers, and he was all fire, explainingContinue reading “the use of the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the statistician”
diving into the deep end of development research (June 2015)
I graduated on June 4th. I did not get any time to enjoy the feeling of having a master’s of sustainability science, though. My contract as a research assistant started the same day I graduated, and three days later, I left Sweden for project meeting/workshop/study site scoping trip to Burkina Faso and Ghana. Charles deContinue reading “diving into the deep end of development research (June 2015)”
a re-awakened love for numbers (Written on November 20)
I’m a geographer, so the concept of projections and coordinate systems is nothing new to me. But working here, walking around with a GPS device and then having to produce map sketches of the places that I have just visited, connecting real-world experiences with points in a shapefile, well, it has made me realize justContinue reading “a re-awakened love for numbers (Written on November 20)”
Katja Malmborg 