Last week there were reports in the Kenyan media that the country will rebase its gross domestic product which is likely to have the effect of increasing its GDP, now about $37 billion a year, the... Read More
Media misses opportunity to visualise Kenya’s Budget
No annual news event in Kenya screams data visualisation like the Budget reading at the national assembly. Yet the charts published by the media after this year’s budget was read were underwhelming, few and sometimes inaccurate. Take the case of The Daily Nation. While the main budget chart in the print version of daily (see right) was... Read More
Mombasa health spending story should use data to identify whether pledges match needs
Mombasa plans to spend Sh1billion on health training, which ran in The Star on April 14, provides important details on the county government’s plan to spend Sh1billion in various categories to... Read More
Health gets the lion’s share of ODA in East Africa
The infographic used in the article Aid to EAC out of step with citizens’ needs that was published in the East African newspaper is a good example of how to illustrate data in a simple way. The... Read More
County numbers and figures drive local governance website
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people" once said John F. Kennedy the 35th president of the United... Read More
Taking data journalism to the newsroom through fellowship
November was a great month for data journalism in Kenya as several high quality data driven stories were published in the mainstream media.When the first national Budget under a devolved... Read More
Refugees in Kenya to return to Somalia, but will life improve on either side of the border?
The Capital FM story Kenya signs pact for refugees return to Somalia sidesteps the very issue that make this story newsworthy. The answers to the question of whether repatriating refugees is... Read More
Number of hungry now at 870m as world marks Food Day
With a world map, pie charts and pictograms, The East African told the world food insecurity story in half a page. The simple and informative data driven infographic was published on October... Read More
Is mole soup a credible cough remedy? How Standard got it wrong
An article in The Standard last week touted the claims of a local man to have found a new cough remedy based on 'mole soup'. Coughs can be the symptom of many different conditions, some of which... Read More