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Education data for empowerment.

[You can call me Al 📈 @alastairotter]

Just updated our #loadshedding calendar to cover all the years from 2015 to 2023: https://t.co/PYxgEhBzgH Each red block is a day with power cuts. Data via @EskomSePush #stage6

[You can call me Al 📈 @alastairotter]

Want to learn the basics of #datajournalism? We put together a free, six-part email series to help you get started. Take a look: https://t.co/d9sahsINiA

[You can call me Al 📈 @alastairotter]

This week we visualised unemployment in SA and it isn't a pretty picture. For eg. the majority (3.8 million) of the 6.2 million unemployed in SA are under the age of 35. View the interactive visualisation here: https://t.co/arj42p5Cj6 #unemployment #ddj #dataviz

[Sarah Evans @SarahPeace6]

Hands down the best piece of storytelling with numbers I've ever read.
South Africa's Deadly School Toilets: An Interactive Investigation https://t.co/UchIP7Txy3 via @passmarkza

[JamlabAfrica @jamlabafrica]

@passmarkza is a South African data platform that sets out to give a clearer picture of the state of schools in South Africa, and presenting it in ways that make it useful to parents, pupils, educators https://t.co/XBLlnvzX18 #datajournalism

[Laura Grant @LauraJGrant]

Make public the latest sanitation audit data listing all the schools with #pittoilets and unsafe toilets, please @DBE_SA

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

One in three South African schools has a pit toilet. For more background on the sorry state of school sanitation read our interactive story: https://t.co/2F4oiQ0YSJ #pittoilets

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

How bad are South Africa's school toilets? We look at the data and it's not pretty. https://t.co/92McVZ6cPi via @passmarkza

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

Our new data story: South Africa's Deadly School Toilets https://t.co/92McVZ6cPi @LauraJGrant

[You can call me Al 📈 @alastairotter]

Happy to say that our @passmarkza project has been nominated in the Public Choice category of the @GENinnovate Data Journalism Awards. Check out all the 11 nominees here: https://t.co/VLrUyr2j22 And please cast your vote for your favourite project. #ddj

[Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn]

11 amazing data journalism nominees for the @GENinnovate Data Journalism Awards Public Choice category. You get to decide who receives the US$1801 prize & trophy. Choose from @GuardianUS @njdotcom @passmarkza @nationalpost @BayanatBox @LANACION @g1 & more https://t.co/t4VmJwUrsl

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

Visualisation: Compare the main topics in the past six State of the Nation Addresses https://t.co/e4w7nL7tWT

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

We're pleased to announce our new education newsletter. It's a monthly, data-driven wrap of education news in South Africa. Take a look at the first edition here: https://t.co/Nq6ltVY24C And subscribe if you enjoy it.

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

Data story: More than half of SA's pupils will not finish their schooling in 12 years, many will never make it to grade 12, and just a fraction of those that start school will make it to university. https://t.co/V00ola2PL6 via @passmarkza

[Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn]

.@gijn bulletin stories of the week incl. Drugs' Dark World (@nbstv), asbestos in Gauteng schools @passmarkza & more https://t.co/9c8UuKL0BD

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

Is your school on the list of Gauteng schools made from asbestos, a banned material? https://t.co/jWkQKAZ2PW #education #data

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

More than 200 Gauteng schools contain asbestos. Here's where they are: https://t.co/c29oKycKuq #data #education

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

SA has 23,687 public schools. Almost half (11,364) are in just two provinces (EC and KZN) #schoolfacts https://t.co/FqJIxQ7rPr 0529

[passmarkza @passmarkza]

There are more than 25,000 schools in South Africa. 23,687 of those are public schools. #schoolfacts https://t.co/FqJIxQ7rPr 0529