The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data has selected Ezekiel for the Capacity Accelerator Network (CAN) Fellowship. His project aims to identify environmental factors driving cholera outbreaks in Yobe State, enhancing public health surveillance and response efforts. 

bulkreadr package is now on CRAN.  bulkreadr is an R package that simplifies and streamlines the process of reading and processing large volumes of data. It allows users to read multiple sheets from Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets workbooks and multiple CSV files from a directory efficiently.  https://gbganalyst.github.io/bulkreadr

Ezekiel participated as a Trust CAN Fellow in the Festival de Datos, sponsored by the United Nations, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from November 7 to 9, 2023

Ezekiel attended the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany as a young researcher, https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/

Ezekiel facilitated reproducible research using version control (Github/Gitlab) at the 2023 Data Science Nigeria Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp. https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/2023-bootcamp.

Ezekiel participated in the 9th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open-Source Scientific Packages. Location: ICTP, Trieste, Italy. November 28- December 9, 2022

forstringr package is now on CRAN. The goal of 'forstringr' is to enable complex string manipulation in R, especially for those more familiar with LEFT(), RIGHT(), and MID() functions in Microsoft Excel. The package combines the power of 'stringr' with other manipulation packages such as 'dplyr' and 'tidyr'. https://gbganalyst.r-universe.dev/forstringr 

The article on fetching data from an API using R and Python is now complete. This API tutorial will teach you how to fetch data from an external source using HTTP requests and parse the data into a usable format. It is written in Quarto, an excellent tool for publishing reproducible research. https://gbganalyst.quarto.pub/api-in-r-and-python/

Ezekiel was selected by UNESCO and The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to attend the 9th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open-Source Scientific Packages at ICTP, Trieste, Italy, on November 10, 2022. See the report here.

Ezekiel will now be working with 54gene as a data specialist to contribute to the genomic data analysis for equalizing precision medicine in Africa.

Our data article is now published in the Data in Brief journal 

Ezekiel became the first RStudio Tidyverse Certified Instructor from Nigeria on October 22, 2020. 

Ezekiel got a grant to attend the European R users meeting (eRum) in Milano, Italy, from May 27 to May 30, 2020 

Ezekiel has been accepted as a guest at the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering 2020, Nairobi, Kenya

Ezekiel joined Data Science Nigeria as a Data Scientist on December 4, 2019

Ezekiel attended the UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab 2018 in Singapore