International Journal of Data Science and Analysis

Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2022

  • Analysis of Overdispersed Insect Count Data from an Avocado Plantation in Thika, Kenya

    Eric Ali Ibrahim, Daisy Salifu, Samuel Musili Mwalili, Thomas Dubois, Henri Edouard Zefack Tonnang

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2022
    Pages: 1-10
    Received: 10 December 2021
    Accepted: 4 January 2022
    Published: 16 February 2022
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    Abstract: Avocado (Persea americana) farming in East Africa has expanded since recent, contributing significantly toward economic growth and livelihood for small-scale farmers. However, insects attacking avocado fruits reduce fruit quality and size, causing massive losses. Previous studies have identified key avocado insect pests, their temporal population p... Show More
  • Creation of a Unified Cloud Readiness Assessment Model to Improve Digital Transformation Strategy

    Daniel Reed Smith

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2022
    Pages: 11-17
    Received: 8 January 2022
    Accepted: 6 February 2022
    Published: 16 February 2022
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    Abstract: Digital transformation can disrupt any organization in any industry, but few organizations have successfully transformed. For an organization to transform digitally, a firm must adopt new technologies that enable it to change how it creates value. One of the most crucial new technologies organizations need to facilitate digital transformation is Cl... Show More
  • Using Human Intelligence to Test the Impact of Popular Preprocessing Steps and Feature Extraction in the Analysis of Human Language

    W. Randolph Ford, Ingrid G. Farreras

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2022
    Pages: 18-22
    Received: 10 January 2022
    Accepted: 5 February 2022
    Published: 16 February 2022
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    Abstract: More than half a century has passed since Chomsky’s theory of language acquisition, Green and colleagues’ first natural language processor Baseball, and the Brown Corpus creation. Throughout the early decades, many believed that once computers became powerful enough, the development of A.I. systems that could understand and interact with humans usi... Show More