Mburu M

I write to think through questions across data, health, technology, institutions, markets, books, and ordinary life.

My formal home is statistics and data science. The wider thread is representation: how reality becomes data, models, categories, stories, maps, institutions, and decisions. This site is a personal archive of technical notes, learning notes, book thoughts, and small observations that help me understand how things work.

Writing

Date	Title	Description	Reading Time
Jun 29, 2026	Kenya’s Financial Lives Mapped: Food Vulnerability in FinAccess 2024	This post uses the FinAccess 2024 public data to explore food vulnerability in Kenya.It builds a decision tree model to identify subgroups where food vulnerability is most pronounced.	24 min
Feb 23, 2026	Bootstrap in Practice: CIs, Hypothesis Tests, and a Crab-Data Case Study	A practical note on bootstrap confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, and model uncertainty using a crab-data case study.	16 min
Feb 22, 2026	Github Use in Africa using Maps	A map-based look at GitHub activity across Africa and what public developer data can and cannot tell us.	25 min
Apr 1, 2024	Where Kenya’s Budget Pressure Comes From	A revived institutions note on Kenya’s revenue, expenditure, recurrent spending, and debt-service pressure using CBK government finance data through 2023.	7 min
Nov 28, 2018	Association Analysis: Finding Patterns in Baskets	A teaching note on support, confidence, and lift using bakery transaction data to explain how association rules turn baskets into evidence.	7 min