Are COVID-19 numbers reported by countries altered? I test the validity of COVID-19 new daily cases for every country using Benford’s Law. Since the pandemic gained global centre stage, there has been a surge in data manipulation accusations. Ind...

For preprint of the actual paper, click here. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a Plasmodium, a malarial parasite. Although Malaria is not life-threatening by its nature, it can cause severe illness and prove fatal if left untreated. In Fe...

Dynamic GP: Application to Malaria Vaccine Coverage Prediction This is a peer-reviewed book chapter on Malaria vaccines coverage. Ranjan, P and Harshvardhan, M. (2020), “The Evolution of Dynamic Gaussian Process Mode...

The aim was to make a quotes generator website which we take with our breakfast. I used SelectorGadget and rvest to scrap quotes from Wikipedia page. Then I used Unsplash API to get a random nature background image. Finally, I use Shiny to combine al...

Two days back I got curious about the Twitter API. I worked with a few APIs (using R) in the past but had never chanced upon using Twitter data. Additionally, Twitter provided a rich source of “what people are talking about”. I searched and found a very easy to use ...

I have been using Spotify for two years now. I was always curious to know my listening trends, which is why I started using last.fm and other tools like that. However, they didn’t give me exact information as to what I listened – the insigh...