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How to Create a Zooming Story Map in Flourish

May 29, 2025

What if Your Nearest Clinic Was Two Hours Away by Boat?

April 28, 2025

What Do TikTok Dreams, Public Spending, and the Fight Against Femicide Have in Common?

January 23, 2025

Launch of Second Phase of Data Collection Initiative in Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare Centers.

December 3, 2024

Orodata Science Launches CheckMyPHC Tool

August 5, 2024

Deploying Data for Impact: A PHC data collection project

July 29, 2024

How To: Building a dashboard for an investigative journalism story

June 7, 2024

Showing the value of data in storytelling: An example of water mismanagement in a local South African community

April 16, 2024

Learn how to do it yourself: An insider’s look at the femicide database project

April 15, 2024

Data for Climate Reporting - Charting the hottest, driest February on record

March 20, 2024

Africa Climate Observer 2.0 - enhancing climate reporting in Africa

March 20, 2024

How we did it: The methodology behind Kenya’s first living Femicide Database.

February 15, 2024

Google Search hacks for better searches, better data, better stories

February 13, 2024

Odipodev launches "Silencing Women" database to illuminate the shadows of femicide in Kenya

January 22, 2024

3 tools transforming journalism - a conversation with John

January 9, 2024

Data Collectors: The backbone of the Frontline Program

December 5, 2023

Expert team and journalists selected for Frontline Program

December 5, 2023

Mentorship and Training

Empowering African journalists through data training and support

November 22, 2023

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What to expect at COP28

November 15, 2023

To understand why El Niño is important in 2023, look back to Cape Town’s “day zero”

November 14, 2023

Green light - A journey towards renewable energy in adapting to climate change

November 7, 2023

Covering climate at both ends of the scale

November 7, 2023

How we made the interactive about climate debt justice

October 27, 2023

What is the climate debt owed to Africa, and why does it matter?

October 23, 2023

Unsettled Debt: Africa, the climate crisis & you

October 16, 2023

How to get valuable data out of PDFs and into analysis with Tabula

October 16, 2023

Using teenage pregnancy data in Kenya to write a powerful story

October 13, 2023

Using maps to explore the data: Violence against Women as a case study

October 13, 2023

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5 Tips to Master New Media in Your Storytelling

September 28, 2023

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Climate financing commitments bolstered in Africa with the announcement of the Nairobi Declaration at the Africa Climate Summit

September 21, 2023

Who owns land in Kenya? Unpacking what the KDHS 2022 data tells us about men and women's land ownership

September 11, 2023

Mentorship and Training

Four Fundamentals for a great Data Visualization: Insights From a Data Journalist

September 6, 2023

PRESS RELEASE: Kenya Health and Demographic Survey 2022 Data now available on Africa Data Hub

August 30, 2023

Call for Journalists: The Frontline Investigative Program

August 28, 2023

Call for Data Collection Volunteers in Nigeria

August 23, 2023

Orodata Science as part of the Africa Data Hub Launches Groundbreaking Data Collection Project in Nigerian Primary Health Care Centers

August 23, 2023

Africa Data Hub Shares Laughter, Learning and Strategy in Nairobi

August 14, 2023

Africa Data Hub in the media: Data, and overcoming divisions in the media

August 7, 2023

Navigating the Global Media Forum 2023: A Milestone for Africa Data Hub

August 4, 2023

Accessing the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for Africa

March 30, 2023

The Africa Climate Observer: Historical climate data for the continent

March 23, 2023

How did African newsrooms report about the pandemic? We have data from 8 newsrooms

March 1, 2023

How to find and use climate data about Africa for journalists

January 26, 2023

2022: Year in Review!

December 15, 2022

Mentorship and Training

Everyone’s journey into data journalism is different. An interview with Patricia Andago

December 13, 2022

How we prepare the ADH Inflation Database

December 6, 2022

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Introducing the Africa Data Hub CKAN Repository

December 5, 2022

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Telling stories with data as a freelance journalist makes you stand out: An interview Torinmo Salau

November 30, 2022

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What can we learn from a creative approach to data journalism? An interview with Mwende Mukwanyaga

November 24, 2022

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Data should not overcomplicate your story: An interview with Tegan Bedser

November 14, 2022

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Cleaning the clutter, narrowing the focus and using a relatable narrative voice in data journalism: An interview with Laura Grant

October 17, 2022

Data journalism, investigative reporting, geo journalism. What’s next? An interview with Blaise Aboh

October 11, 2022

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It’s not enough to say that there’s no data in Africa: An interview with Ruona Meyer

September 30, 2022

Track the rising cost of living with Africa Data Hub's Inflation Observer

September 26, 2022

Life expectancy, education and wealth: What's changed and for who in the last two years?

September 19, 2022

40 African countries see fall in Human Development Index during Covid-19 period

September 8, 2022

Does the Human Development Index have a sex data problem?

August 26, 2022

Why the Human Development Index is important and and what it means

August 25, 2022

Why we stopped predicting the Resurgence of COVID-19 cases

August 16, 2022

Mentorship and Training

Mapping election results: using data in your coverage of Kenyan elections

August 15, 2022

What we have learned from collecting Covid-19 data for Africa

August 12, 2022

Visualised: 14 years of inflation in Africa

August 11, 2022

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The intensive process behind collecting data for our Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

August 5, 2022

Developing the Africa Gender Data Portal through the GNI Innovation Challenge 2022

August 3, 2022

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Why does inflation differ from real-world increases in cost of living? A guide for reporters

August 2, 2022

Reporting on inflation? Here’s where to find data about Africa

July 22, 2022

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Interested in an ADH Journalism Fellowship? Here are five tips to help you submit the best application

July 7, 2022

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6 Questions data scientists ask when working with new datasets

June 10, 2022

Africa needs a billion Covid vaccines, but supply is slowing down

May 31, 2022

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How to use our Africa Data Hub Mapping Tool [VIDEO]

May 20, 2022

Pandemic Waves: Why Covid infections rise and fall

May 19, 2022

What's the real impact of COVID-19? Making a case for sex-disaggregated data.

May 11, 2022

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Understanding Omicron - insights from experts.

January 6, 2022

COVID-19 vaccines in Africa: we've got the data!

December 3, 2021

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Using our vaccine tracker, our top three data journalism picks.

December 3, 2021

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How to use our African COVID-19 resurgence dashboard [VIDEO]

December 1, 2021

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COVID-19 Recoveries Data: How to use Responsibly

November 30, 2021

Celebrating our 1-year anniversary!

November 15, 2021

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COVID-19 Resurgence: Start with Data, Finish with a story

November 12, 2021

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Dispelling COVID-19 vaccine myths with Dr. Benjamin Kagina

November 10, 2021

COVID-19 Resurgence Map: Where does the data come from?

October 22, 2021

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COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: What you should know when reporting [VIDEO].

October 12, 2021

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[watch] Resurgence Map Tutorial

October 7, 2021

Where are Covid-19 cases rising the most in Africa?

October 5, 2021

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How to build a good COVID-19 dashboard: Tips from our experts [VIDEO]

September 21, 2021

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