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Kenya Census Data: Why are City Women Dying Early?

September 13, 2016
kodi
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Two distant Counties have emerged as having Kenya’s highest life expectancy with the women living on average 22 years longer than those in the worst performing county in the country. At Birth, the life expectancy for females in both Garissa

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Road Accidents Claim 10 Kenyan Lives Everyday

August 29, 2016
Prestone Adie
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This week’s post is from Pauline Ndirangu, an Open Data Fellow 2016 who is part of our Data Science Team where she surfaces stories from different data sets. “I find purpose by extracting tales from data. My main tools for

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He who plants trees loves others beside himself

August 17, 2016August 17, 2016
Prestone Adie
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in. This quote is written in Gnomolgia (1732), a compilation of 6496 adagies and proverbs that Thomas Fuller an English physician had collected from various

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Sorry Nanyuki, I am going to Marsabit

May 25, 2016
Prestone Adie
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I am looking for land in Marsabit County somewhere i can cool down, graze my goats in the day and stare at the stars in the evening. Someplace I can feel the purpose of life and living and the endless

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Time: What does it mean?

May 10, 2016May 10, 2016
Prestone Adie
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Time is Infinite. Time transcends human understanding and yet very few people pause to think what it means. Time management has always been sold as one of the key skills for success and there are several books available to help

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Trees for the Earth.

April 26, 2016
Prestone Adie
Lets Talk Data!!

Peter Diamandis is the name that comes to my mind when I think of Earth Day which will be marked on Friday, 22nd April 2016. He is the CEO and Chairman of the X Prize Foundation which was founded in

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The generational gap: the leader and the led age gap.

April 8, 2016April 8, 2016
Prestone Adie
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A few weeks ago, I was irked when someone retweeted an old blog post that suggested that the difference between the age of the Kenyan Leader and the median age was 60. This was based on a brilliant 2012 article

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Marriage Pay-gap: Do men marry women with larger paychecks?

March 8, 2016March 9, 2016
Prestone Adie
Blognews, Lets Talk Data!!, Portal Updates, Uncategorized

Today I had an argument with a colleague. We argued about the chances that iI would marry a woman who makes more money than I do. In as much as I did admit that I would be okay with such

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Drinking Water: Treat it then Drink it.

February 22, 2016February 23, 2016
Prestone Adie
Blognews, Lets Talk Data!!

Water Wikipedia entry on water states that it covers 71 per cent of the earth’s surface and that 96.5 per cent of the planet’s crust water is found in seas and oceans, 1.7 per cent in groundwater, 1.7 per cent

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On the road home, church, school, work

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016
Prestone Adie
Blognews, Lets Talk Data!!

Did you know that on average you spend 30 – 50 per cent of the day on the move? Walking, Riding a bicycle, in car(stuck in traffic). You are always headed somewhere, be it school, work, meeting, shopping center or

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