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How to enrich your addresses with coordinates for GeoSpatial Analysis

When you’re doing primary research in developing countries, you quickly find that the data can be quite raw and needs some standardization before it can be useful for further development. I’ve found geocoding addresses to be a low hanging fruit that at least allows you to start seeing some data spatially. This is how to... More

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great thinking, great product

tl;dr this could really be a post about my nice new backpack . Growing up in Lagos in the 90’s, I remember a television ad for Toyota that ended with a Japanese voice saying “yoi shinai, yoi kangai – good thinking, good product”. That slogan stuck. Toyota cars are generally good products. Good products get the job... More

Buying Land in the 2020’s

African millennials understand the concept of real estate as a source of wealth, but with the explosion of the digital landscape, how many have made the connection that digital real estate could work in the same way? Let’s start from real estate as we know it – buying undervalued land or property and selling it... More