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The Rash that Cost $1538

The US spent $4.3 trillion on health care in 2021, which accounted for about 18% of GDP. Life expectancy today is at its lowest in 25 years. Health outcomes have clearly not matched the spending. What gives? Hawkai Data takes a deep dive into 50 years of health care data…
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Dashboards for Measuring Impact

The facility-based data collection and model proposed in the article provides a low-cost and last-mile accurate solution as compared to household enumeration or randomized surveys.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out

The Global Hunger Index 2022 was released earlier this month. Methodology matters; data quality, even more. Read why, when your input data is garbage, you shouldn't expect anything but garbage output.
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Bangalore Floods – A Call for Open Data

A few days of rains in the first week of September and India’s IT capital, Bangalore, got the attention of the international media. The Wall Street Journal headline read – India’s Silicon Valley Flooded by Rains, Exposing Infrastructure Woes. BBC was more dramatic – Boats and tractors replace cars in…
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Towards Zero Hunger
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The Kericho Pilot
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Measuring SDG Progress