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Numbers Lit! Data Literacy and Fake News Posted on: March 17, 2021 Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, California State University Long Beach, USA and author of the Routledge book, Fake News in Context “Wisconsin counted more votes than registered voters.” “Trump’s inaugural crowd was larger than Obama’s.” “The US has 6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases.” “The number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has risen of the past ten years; it’s an epidemic!” Numbers are supposedly objective. After all, they are calculated by universal rules. The book Lies, Damned L...

Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Caption: This figure shows a network visualization of Twitter users appearing in the research. Color encodes community and nodes are sized by their degree of connectedness. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers Previous image Next image Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, charts and graphs have helped communicate information about infection rates, deaths, and vaccinations. In some cases, such visualizations can encourage behaviors that reduce virus...

From a Data Pilot to Covid response with Microsoft Excel Format What can a spreadsheet do? Or, better yet, what can 100s of people do with improved spreadsheet skills? From the moment IFRC started the Data Literacy program, we heard from people every day that we all need to collectively improve our data skills in the form of spreadsheet basics. Microsoft Excel is the top data tool that Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff use. Time and time again – people asked for brief to extensive training on this essential data tool. We partnered with Microsoft Corporate Social Responsibility for...

NBB to migrate its SWIFT system to AWS cloud MANAMA, February 9, 2021 The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) Group has partnered with Allied Engineering Group (AEG), one of the largest worldwide SWIFT service bureaus, to migrate the bank’s international remittance system (SWIFT) to Amazon Web Service cloud (AWS). This marks as an important step towards transforming how NBB Group is positioning the cloud at the centre of their digital transformation roadmap.  This is in line with the Government of Bahrain’s cloud adoption strategy. The move will open the door for other financial institution...

The College of New Caledonia is one of 15 B.C. post-secondary institutions that will be offering "micro credential" courses to quickly train people for high-demand jobs.