Hello, my name is Mpho Mafata. I use this site to version instructional scripts I use most frequently and those used for generating publications, tutorials and workshop material. I work in interdisciplinary environments with very different types of data (structured and unstructured).
I have technical skills in separation sciences (chromatography), analytical chemistry (mass spectrometry, UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy), wet lab/preparatory chemistry (sample preparation of organic compounds and natural products), oenology (winemaking and sensory analysis), scientometrics (patent statistics), and multivariate data analysis (MDS, MCA, PCA, MFA).
I love research on the applications of Data Science in the fields: Analytical Chemistry, Biotechnology, Sensory evaluation, Food Science, and Oenology.
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Chromatographic analysis 
Unboxing the various structures and complexity in spectral data sets. Read more here |
Sensory analysis 
Focused on the specifics of sensory and consumer data, their structures, and features. Read more here |
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Multivariate analysis 
Analysing data using multivariate toolboxes. Focused on visualization using combinations of graphs. Read more here |
Data science 
Analysing data of various structures using SQL, R or Python. Assessing relationships and patterns using fuzzy techniques and network analysis. Read more here |
I have some old and new poster list presented at conferences, neatly listed here: https://mphomafata.wordpress.com/category/posters/
ResearchGate scientific output neatly presented at https://researchgate.net/profile/Mpho-Mafata/research/ .
My scientific publication list at https://mphomafata.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/my-list-of-publications/ .
- 2022 - present | Center for Research on Evaluation Science and Technology (CREST, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2021 - 2022 | South African Grape and Wine Research Institute (SAGWRI, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2020 - 2022 | Language Centre, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2014 - 2022| School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2014 - 2017 | Agricultural Research Council, Nietvoorbij, South Africa
- 2009 - 2013 | Department of Chemistry, Univesity of Caoe Town, South Africa
For collaborations and conversations email mafata@sun.ac.za
Read more about my research interests at https://mphomafata.wordpress.com/