Researcher: Yaseen Essa , University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Dr Ritesh Ajoodah and Dr Hugh Hunt , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg We evaluated the prediction ability of the Long-Short Term-Memory-Recurrent Neural Network (LSTM) model to predict short-term lightening flash densities within South Africa using historical lightening

Researcher: Takunda Pfigu, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Nyasha Mahonye, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Financial Inclusion : Process that ensures the access to and usage of basic formal financial services for all. It is crucial for local economic development. Rural people, women and poor people

Researcher: Mohammad Rehman, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The combination of traditional technical and fundamental analysis techniques and machine learning techniques has become a common practice for informed stock price prediction. The focus of this research was to stochastically

Researcher: Tselahale Serongwa, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The banking sector needs the ability to categorize the customer data they possess to enable business intelligence analytics and improve their marketing strategies. They require trivial automated models that yield interpretable

Researcher: Ruan Pretorius, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Prof. Terence van Zyl, University of Johannesburg and Dr Farai Mlambo, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Accurate financial time series forecasts can assist investors in gaining a competitive edge over other participants in capital markets No empirical conclusion existed

Researcher: Sheena Phillip, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Fraud detection of health care providers is a growing concern worldwide as billions of dollars is lost each year. Medicare publicly released health provider data in order to encourage the development

Researcher: By Kabo Phage, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Gregory Farrell, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Financial cycles capture the evolution of risks to financial stability, and it follows that they are important for macro prudential policymakers.  The robust measurement thereof can aid in formulating and

Researcher: Rinae Tshivhidzo, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Researchers have devoted their focus to studying stock market prediction. However, predicting the stock trend is still an open question. With the development of the advanced period, the prediction of stock

Researcher: Rosa Manoim, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Michelle Small, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg According to the South African government, “the advancement of human rights and the promotion of democracy are pillars on which South Africa’s foreign policy rests”. Yet as the statistical results here

Researcher: Neo Matsobane, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The idea of predicting stock prices has always appealed to both financial investors and researchers. The stock market is unforeseeable in nature whereby financial Investors consistently enquire if the cost of