Note: A version of this article was also published via LinkedIn here and on Medium here.
With the rise of ‘Big Data’, ‘Machine Learning’ and the ‘Data Scientist’ has come an explosion in the popularity of using open-source programming tools for data analysis.…
My latest op-ed was published in Monday’s edition of the Myanmar Times.
The article provides a brief summary of Myanmar’s democratic and economic reforms as they relate to the country’s management of their public finances. A summary of the article and a link to the full piece is provided below.…
Another blog post and another research report focusing on Myanmar’s taxation system:
This was my final research report developed at Myanmar’s Centre for Economic and Social Development.…
Yet another quiet couple of months on the blogging front can be explained by me feverishly working on a number of projects as I reach my 2 year anniversary in Myanmar. The latest of these has been the launching of the Open Myanmar Initiative’s Budget Dashboard, which is now available online here:
The website, which I helped develop using the open-source R language and the free Shiny library provides the first user-friendly interface for exploring Myanmar’s budgets both at the Union level and across all 14 States and Regions.…
For the few of you who might be interested in knowing more about how Myanmar’s taxation system works outside of the union government, I’ve recently published a briefing note with a colleague on the topic. The note is available online here.…