Mapping African RSE groups and communities of practice to grow the RSE movement in Africa
Research software engineers (RSEs) are typically people with a background in a specific research discipline (other than computer science) who spend most of their working time coding. If you think you are a research software engineer, we invite you to be part of our community. We can help you access training, mentoring, new job opportunities, […]
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Understanding the lay of the land: the DHCSSza Stakeholder Map Project
ESCALATOR is one of Talarify’s capacity and community building programmes that kicked off in 2020. The programme is co-developed and funded by SADiLaR. On 28 April 2022 we launched the South African Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences (DH & CSS) Stakeholder Map project as part of ESCALATOR. This article was first published in April […]
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Finding Where Population Health Studies Have Been Conducted To Inform Climate-health Research
A new research project is setting out to unlock the potential of combining health monitoring data with climate datasets that cover the same times and regions to improve our understanding of the impact of climate on human health. With funding from the Wellcome Trust, this 12-month project brings together expertise from afrimapr (Liverpool School of […]
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Ten simple rules for establishing a mentorship programme
We are excited to announce the publication of our peer-reviewed article ‘Ten simple rules for establishing a mentorship programme’. In the paper, we present a concise summary of recommendations that outline key elements to consider when designing and establishing mentorship programmes. These recommendations are drawn from the collective experiences of four different emerging and established […]
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African data showcased at #TidyTuesday and #30DayMapChallenge
The past month showed a flurry of activities around three things dear to our hearts – African data, maps, and R! See below for images & links to the beautiful maps that people made.
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Improving Health Systems: Adjusting to COVID-19
LSTM researchers, led by Professors Sally Theobald, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Imelda Bates and Dr Laura Dean and partner organisations (University of Liverpool & Ministry of Health, Liberia, and Liverpool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
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How GIS Helped Kenya Respond Better to COVID-19
The value and potential of geographic information system – or GIS, “the science of where” – has become even more obvious this year as the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Merging open health facility data sets – Part 1
This blog post first appeared on the afrimapr website and is a shorter version of the full report that includes R code, readme files, data descriptions and much more.
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Talarify joins the international afrimapr team
In 2019 we applied for the Wellcome Open Research Fund grants and was delighted to learn in October that our application was successful.
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Seven ways scientists handle technology challenges in resource-poor settings
The computers that scientists use are growing increasingly more powerful. But in many parts of the world, reliable electricity and Internet access, much less supercomputing power, remain elusive. There are things that researchers can do, however. Some scientists with experience in resource-limited areas share their tips.
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