Gent Rexha
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  • Dec 2, 2021

    Satirical News Detection and Analysis in Albanian

    I just published my Satirical News Detection and Analysis in Albanian Interactive Python Notebook on Kaggle!

  • Nov 29, 2021

    Albanian Fake News Corpus Publication on Kaggle

    This dataset was derived from the publication ‘Albanian fake news detection’ by ERCAN CANHASI, REXHEP SHIJAKU, and ERBLIN BERISHA. Their GitHub Repository can be found at this URL and their soon-to-be-published work may be found at this URL.

  • Aug 29, 2020

    Albanian News Article Dataset Publication

    Today, Majlinda Llugiqi and I released the first Albanian News Articles Dataset on Kaggle. It includes over 3 million articles from different Kosovo’s news pages, which can be used for category prediction and other various Machine Learning/NLP tasks.

  • Jul 9, 2020

    Amount of daily new cases of COVID-19 split by municipality in Kosovo in the last 3 weeks

    Considering the high rise in COVID-19 cases in our country I’ve decided to plot where the biggest hotspots currently are:

  • Oct 9, 2019

    The rearrangement of the parliament after Kosovo's 2019 elections

    Considering most of the counting of votes has been done already, excluding the conditional votes and those by mail, one might already assume that the structure of the new parliament has been set.

  • Sep 28, 2019

    Gender diversity in Kosovo's Tertiary Education Sector

    While staying on the subject of gender diversity, my last post was about gender diversity in high end academia positions. Here’s the gender diversity distribution for the students in Kosovo’s universities & colleges.

  • Sep 20, 2019

    Gender diversity in Kosovo's Academia

    Recently I stumbled upon the post of Shqipdona, where she to summarize it, wasn’t granted an academic position at the Faculty of Medicine despite supposedly being a 10.0 out of 10.0 average grade student (probably the best average ever). Read her full post here: https://www.facebook.com/shqipdona.lahu/posts/3148538701827437

  • Sep 12, 2019

    IPKO Superliga 19/20 Average Face by Team

    Inspired by this Reddit post, I wanted to try it out on some more familiar faces as well.

  • Sep 9, 2019

    Who's more active? Facebook activity of the top five candidates for Kosovo's upcoming parliamentary election

    As the upcoming parliamentary elections of the 6th of October in Kosovo are coming closer, more and more of the election campaign is happening in social media as well. Considering the big internet penetration, this is definitely a worthwhile strategy.

  • Sep 4, 2019

    Innovation (per municipality) in Kosovo

    The Kosovo Agency of Statistics (ASK) recently published some very interesting data on the “Number of registered enterprises by municipality and sector of economic activity”, which shows a very high intensity of new business registered in Prishtina. Even though, in Prizren for example the population is almost equal as big.

  • Aug 31, 2019

    What would past elections look like with the new coalitions

    Considering the deadline for declaration of participation in the elections through a Coalition has ended for the political parties in Kosovo, we decided to analyze the impact of the newly formed coalitions. To measure that, we decided to look at the last Kosovo Assembly Elections in 2017 and apply the coalitions to those results.

  • Aug 25, 2019

    Kosovo population by municipality from 1948 to 2018

    In this visualization you can see the population by municipality of the Republic of Kosovo from 1948 until 2018. The data isn’t annual, therefore I’ve had to interpolate the data between years, which might not show big spikes of population migration.

  • Jul 29, 2019

    Ranking of higher education institutions in the whole Albanian area

    Inspired by a Reddit visualization and this guide I gave a shot in visualizing the rankings of the more known Albanian higher institutions in Albanian and Kosovo based on the world-wide Webometrics rankings published recently. I had to add the legend on the right side of the visualization manually in MS Paint, because I couldn’t get it to work how I wanted in Tableau.

  • Feb 27, 2018

    KushMaAktiv.com - An online dashboard for providing an overview of political parties on Social Media

    For the municipality elections of Kosovo in 2017, and seeing the rising influence of social media in elections, I wanted to analyze the curret 5 candidates for my city and see how they performed online. Below you can see a snapshot of the data for for the local election day on 2017-10-21:

  • Gent Rexha
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Just a chill web3 data guy