Urban Population Under Reporting: Critical Issue in Census 2017

By Zahid Asghar Data serve as bedrock for governments to plan, develop and improve socio-economic health of its subjects. Timely and accurate data is key to set goals, and to monitor and evaluate progress on...

Data journalism: the most sought-after training globally!

By Khalid Khattak The first-ever global survey “The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms” by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has found that data journalism is the most sought-after training. “Data journalism is the most...

Statistics and Politics

By Babar Zaman I wish best of luck and congratulate PML(N) for victory in NA-120 bye-election (BE). No doubt, in this difficult time when Nawaz Sharif (NS) has been disqualified from Supreme Court in Panama...

PML-N 11pc down, PTI 3pc up in NA-120

  By Khalid Khattak and Numan Wahab LAHORE: A comparative analysis of polled votes for Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in NA-120 bye-elections with 2013 general elections shows 11 percent decrease in PML-N’s...

Setting Up of Schools in Punjab, Pakistan: Before and After 1947

By Khalid Khattak This analysis of public sector schools in Pakistan's Punjab province brings to light significant insights from available data of 52,000+ schools across 36 district of the province since 1947. This has never...

Matric Exams 2017: Highest pass percentage recorded at Multan Board

The highest pass percentage in Secondary School Certificate (Matriculation) Annual Examinations 2017 in Punjab i.e., 81.68pc, has been recorded at Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Multan. Below is the comparison of last three years. A...

Speaking truth with numbers

Data visualization has made journalism more objective By Srinivasan Ramani “A picture is worth a thousand words” is a well-repeated cliché. But it is not any more in journalism, where the increasing use of data visualization...

Not Numbers, but Numbers Which Matter

By Zahid Asghar We are living in a world where data are ubiquitous. It is estimated that by 2020 there will be 1.75GB data generated for each individual living in this world in every minute....

Essential tips and tools for beginning data journalists

By Khalid Khattak The term “data journalism” is the new buzzword — at least in developing countries like Pakistan. In the developing world, data is increasingly becoming available thanks to initiatives like open government, open data and the introduction of right to...

ڈیٹا جرنلزم میں دلچسپی رکھنے والوں کے لیے خوشخبری

Sorry for the inconvenience. One of the organizers has confirmed that this course would now be offered again in September 2017. The earlier news about the re-running of this free course was based on a...