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By Khalid Khattak
This is a fun post with an intention to promote #DataLiteracy and #DataVizLiteracy. The first graph shows increase and decrease in petrol price in Pakistan since January this year. The second graph is a sort of comparison...
By Khalid Khattak
Over 97 percent of journalists in Pakistan who took a data journalism survey believe that official data is not easily available in Pakistan.
But at the same time, most of them, 75.6 percent, said they never used the...
Information source: Dawn.com
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Pakistan’s first free online data journalism course starting August 27
By M. Naveed Alam
LAHORE: Want to explore and learn fundamentals of data journalism? This free online course, being offered for the first time in Pakistan,...
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