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Are you interested in learning storytelling with data but don’t know how to begin?
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering free course “Data Visualization for Storytelling and Discovery” starting June 11.
The four-week massive open online course...
As many as 12,291 Pakistanis preferred foreign nationalities over Pakistani citizenship during the last five years, reveals data about immigration trends of Pakistanis.
According to a report in The News, Germany remained the most favorite country of Pakistanis as 4,780...
By Zahid Asghar
We are living in a world where data are ubiquitous. Data are used not only by business organizations to maximize their profits, but it has also strong socio-economic significance. Data have great significance both for socio-economic...
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Five Muslim countries together fail to catch up India in Google Scholar Citations
As many as five Muslim countries together including Pakistan and Malaysia have failed to catch up with India vis-à-vis Google Scholar Citations by their...
Pakistan’s cellular subscribers’ data
By Rana Tanveer
In our latest video we have tried to highlight as to how one can look at annual cellular subscribers' data of Pakistan....
Most Pakistani processed for employment abroad are laborers and mostly in Saudi Arabia!
By Khalid Khattak
This post is continuation of the earlier post Over 8.5 million Pakistanis processed for employment abroad since 1971.
According to the country-wise data...
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By Khalid Khattak
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One...
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Welcome to the fourth episode of Data Discoveries!
Government departments regularly release reports and publications that serve as valuable sources of data and...
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