Climate Change Performance

India maintains its strong performance in the Climate Change Performance Index, retaining its 10th place.
India’s performance was rated high in the GHG Emissions, Energy Use, and Climate Policy categories, and medium in Renewable Energy. India is already on track to meet its 2030 emissions target (which is compatible with a well-below-2°C scenario), close to achieving its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target of a 40% share for non-fossil fuel installed power capacity by 2030, and on course for a targeted 33–35% reduction in energy intensity by the same year.

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Data Analysis in Excel

Data Analysis is an essential part of Media and Communication Research. Most of the essential statistical tests can be done quite easily with the Data Analysis option on MS Excel. This feature is not available on the default mode of MS Excel but can easily be activated through the ‘Options’ tab. In this video recorded on July 18, 2021, I demonstrate how to use this feature to perform Descriptive Statistics on the ‘Age’ variable of a sample data set.

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USP Polls

Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision.
This post also provides a poll on Artificial Intelligence and Journalism.

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Introduction to Quantitative Analysis

Quantitative analyses of data involve two kinds of statistical tools. Descriptive statistics are designed to help summarize some collection of information. This is contrasted with inferential statistics, which, as the term suggests, are tools to help researchers use sample data to draw conclusions about populations. This process usually involves assessing the probability that samples were

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Communication Studies: Blurring disciplinary boundaries

A landmark study in the last decade identified ‘604 different theories, general scientific paradigms, and schools of thought’ in articles in three stalwart journals in the last fifty years. Six out ten of these theories originated in the field of communication while the other theories were from Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Cybernetics, Arts,

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