Mburu M
Mburu M
Personal blog on data, technology, institutions, and life
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Statistics, public data, models, uncertainty, maps, and applied evidence.
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Tools and systems
Software, AI, developer infrastructure, and the traces technology leaves behind.
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Interactive dashboard
Kenya Food Prices
Explore how food prices vary across time, counties, markets, commodities, and retail or wholesale price types in Kenya. The dashboard uses World Food Programme data published through the Humanitarian Data Exchange and lets you work in Kenyan shillings or US dollars. Use the overview, trend, map, comparison, and coverage views to identify recent price changes and differences between places.
Interactive dashboard
Kenya Indicators
Explore long-run changes in Kenya’s national DHS indicators across fertility, child survival, health services, nutrition, WASH, HIV, malaria, education, and agency. The dashboard connects curated household-survey evidence to SDG themes while keeping survey years, coverage, uncertainty, and data limitations visible. Use the overview to scan policy trends, inspect individual indicators in detail, or download the filtered catalogue for further analysis.
R package
ineqTrees
ineqTrees provides tools for studying socioeconomic inequality in health outcomes using tree-based models. It includes weighted-rank and concentration-index utilities together with methods for fitting inequality-aware trees and forests. The documentation covers model fitting, tuning, visualization, and SHAP-based decomposition through worked examples.
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| Date | Title | Description | Reading Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Food Vulnerability in Kenya: What FinAccess 2024 Shows | This post uses the FinAccess 2024 public data to explore food vulnerability in Kenya. I use a decision tree to identify the groups where food vulnerability is highest. | 23 min |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Your Supervisor Said ‘Do a Bootstrap’. What Do They Mean? | A practical journey from one sample to bootstrap confidence intervals and hypothesis tests using children’s weight-for-height z-scores. | 18 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 | This post uses Central Bank of Kenya government finance data to examine how revenue and expenditure have changed since 2000. I also look at recurrent spending and the growing cost of servicing debt. | 7 min |
| Jan 26, 2019 | Predict whether the cancer is benign or malignant | A practical machine learning note using the Wisconsin breast cancer dataset to predict whether tumors are benign or malignant. | 22 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 |