- September 9, 2015 –Lighton Phiri
Cheating in student programming tasks manifests in various forms; sharing the same piece of code is one such way. While there are a number of ways of detecting source code similarity, using Moss (Measure of Software Similarity) —a plagiarism detection ...
(more...) - February 13, 2015 –Lighton Phiri
So the Electoral Commission of Zambia finally published the comprehensive results of the just ended presidential by-elections. I decided to put up this post as a follow up to my previous posts on past presidential elections held in Zambia. ...
(more...) - November 24, 2014 –Lighton Phiri
Wanting to do something ‘worthwhile’ while procrastinating—no pun intended, I dug into the past six—1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2008 and 2011—Zambian presidential election results , collated the data and then mapped regional (district-level) results, just as I did in for ...
(more...) - November 23, 2014 –Lighton Phiri
I have been playing around with Shapefiles , made a few modifications to take into account Muchinga Province and new districts, and subsequently merged ...
(more...) - November 20, 2014 –Lighton Phiri
I have spent the last couple of weeks sieving through Zambia census data, as part of a personal project I am working on. With the looming presidential by-election, I decided to extend this analysis to include election results since democracy ...
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