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When data speaks in many tongues

In my earlier article, “The Tower of Babel in Nigerian Healthcare”, I argued that our hospitals and laboratories often speak different digital languages, each recording diseases, deaths, and test ...
Addis Abeba — From the very beginning of the genocidal war on Tigray in November 2020, the international community adopted the language of Abiy Ahmed's regime and its allies. This language was ...
The UAE joined countries around the world in celebrating the World Statistics Day Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates, represented by the National Committee for Statistics, chaired by the Federal ...
Birhanu Degefa was visiting family in the Ethiopian city of Shire in November, when soldiers suddenly began rounding up men ...
Aiming to investigate small island resilience in public health emergencies, we found existing classifications of Small Island ...
To help bring the application of data science to a variety of fields, Case Western Reserve University has developed a unique Applied Data Science undergraduate minor that can be paired with any ...
As of the end of June 2025, the most recent reporting period, 117.3 million people had been forced to flee their homes globally due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or ...
Effective monitoring of development aid is the foundation for assessing the alignment of flows with their intended ...
At UNHCR we work with data and statistics, which are helping us to understand important information to save, protect and improve the lives of refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people.
The Global Findex Database is the world's only demand-side survey on financial inclusion and a leading source of data on how adults around the world access and use financial services. Since its launch ...
Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...
As an editor and writer who has contributed to many national and local publications, Nicole Gregory enjoys communicating clearly on critical health topics so that readers can make informed choices for ...