Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This years list of biotech companies reflects the evolving impact of AI, a growing interest in cutting-edge research tools for single-cell analysis and spatial proteomics, and clinical advances for novel drug candidates that promise more convenient and effective treatment for conditions impacting millions of Americans.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Posted by Badih Ghazi, Staff Research Scientist, and Nachiappan Valliappan, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research Recently, differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a mathematically robust notion of user privacy for data aggregation and machine learning (ML), with practical deployments including the 2022 US Census and in industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way.

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Social Media Media Social Facebook 131

Whole Whale

MARCH 18, 2025

Digital Information World: Analysis summarizing Imperva data on bot traffic and industry breakdowns ( Digital Information World ) We’ve Been Here Before (Sort Of) Remember when mobile overtook desktop? Enhance Security Against Bad Bots Implement CAPTCHAs, rate limiting, and robust security measures.

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Web Digital Strategy Analytics 52

Tableau

JULY 25, 2024

Spencer Czapiewski July 25, 2024 - 5:54pm Thomas Nhan Director, Product Management, Tableau Lari McEdward Technical Writer, Tableau Expand your data modeling and analysis with Multi-fact Relationships, available with Tableau 2024.2. For example, you might have one base table with Sales data and another base table with Marketing data.

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Relationship Aggregator Analysis Measure 76

M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In addition to helping make the study, you’ll receive an individualized analysis comparing the data you submitted for your organization to other organizations of your size and type. And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making. All-caps bold important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

If we (NPOs) are investing in social media, then we should be measuring it to make sure it drives action – this presentation shows a way for just looking at Twitter using Google Analytics. o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools. o Just gather, analyze, and act based on key performance indicators.

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Data Social Media Measure Analytics 96

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

1) Data Analysis and Reporting Marketing automation platforms give aggregated insights into donor behavior and campaign performance. Open rates , click-through rates , conversion rates , and other metrics measure the effectiveness of your fundraising efforts. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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Marketing Fundraising Nonprofit Social Media 204

DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

To facilitate this decision, DataRobot platform provides Challenger Insights, a deep but intuitive analysis of how well the Challenger performs and how it stacks up against the Champion. DataRobot offers more in-depth analysis in Challenger Insights, including Dual Lift, ROC and Prediction Differences.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In addition to helping make the study, you’ll receive an individualized analysis comparing the data you submitted for your organization to other organizations of your size and type. And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making. All-caps bold important.

Benchmark 98

Benchmark Advocacy Studies Analysis 98

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

What is Training Needs Analysis and how to perform it? GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training Needs Analysis is an inevitable part of all the organizations that want to improve their employees’ skill sets and believe in the cumulative growth of the company. This analysis helps them to do their job more effectively.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

What is Training Needs Analysis and how to perform it? GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training Needs Analysis is an inevitable part of all the organizations that want to improve their employees’ skill sets and believe in the cumulative growth of the company. This analysis helps them to do their job more effectively.

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Analysis Train Training Evaluation 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

What is Training Needs Analysis and how to perform it? Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training Needs Analysis is an inevitable part of all the organizations that want to improve their employees’ skill sets and believe in the cumulative growth of the company.

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Analysis Train Training Evaluation 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? | View | Upload your own.

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Guinea Social Media Measure Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. The big deal is that all of this data is in one dashboard, so I can jump straight to analysis, making my weekly report a whole lot easier to produce. Spredfast is one, but are there others?

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Social Media Tools Media Social 100

sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Measure your outcomes and tell your story. In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors. Augment your reporting with data analysis.

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Effective Tips Grant API 94

Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Tools Data Management Effective 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

DataRobot

JULY 21, 2022

Outline clear metrics to measure success. Reshape and aggregate data as necessary. Rows irrelevant to the analysis (e.g., Data aggregation such as from hourly to daily or from daily to weekly time steps may also be required. dashes and parentheses in telephone numbers) Inconsistent units of measure (e.g.,

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Project Learning Model Aggregator 98

Tableau

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bins Easily group data points to simplify analysis Bins in Tableau group continuous data into discrete intervals, making it easier for you to visualize and analyze data through histograms and other distribution displays. This helps focus the analysis on specific subsets of data, revealing insights and patterns relevant to the chosen criteria.

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Analytics Database Data Analysis 97

Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Users can see top predictors, as well as insights of how to improve their engagement rate, directly in their flow of analysis. Level up your analysis with new analytics enhancements. Simply drag and drop a measure onto a dimension, and Tableau automatically creates a Level of Detail expression with the default aggregation for you.

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Experiment Files Analytics Analysis 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. How are you measuring that? Measurement and Learning. It offers a quasi social network analysis to see how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom.

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Google Nonprofit Time Social Media 99

Towards Data Science

JUNE 6, 2023

Fitbit activity analysis with DuckDB Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash Wearable fitness trackers have become an integral part of our lives, collecting and tracking data about our daily activities, sleep patterns, location, heart rate, and much more. I’ve been using a Fitbit device for 6 years to monitor my health.

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Personal Data Files Analysis 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In an analysis accompanying the new report, they point out data showing that some companies see their enterprise value increase much faster than the competition. Measuring up. Nowhere is this more apparent, the authors claim, than when you look at public B2B SaaS companies. “Investors have forgotten all about the Rule of 40.”

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Change Benchmark Metrics Chart 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Collective Intelligence: refers to the idea that the social web enables us to not only aggregate individual actions, but also run sophisticated algorithms on them and extract meaning from them.

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Social Media ROI Media Social 50

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In a recent analysis , we looked at the characteristics of the December cohort, which totaled $4.2 The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. billion to 384 nonprofits. Grant size distribution.

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Grant Structure Analysis Aggregator 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. From these questions, you need to pick the three most critical metrics to measure success goals.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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Measure Track Lecture Government 36

Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Quantitative variables can be measured numerically. Qualitative variables can’t be measured numerically. Data with the same units of measure are best shown using the same scale on a single axis. an “essential question for great data analysis and data visualizations.” Image from How Charts Lie by Alberto Cairo.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 17, 2024

Instead of using the %timeit Python function, which runs multiple times and can be heavy on resources for big data tasks, we'll just measure it once. Next up, we’ll run an aggregation query on our Parquet data. Next, we’ll test how ORC handles an aggregation query. So, don’t sweat it if your time is different.

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Files Data Practice Guide 97

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Pave , a San Francisco-based startup that recently graduated from YC Combinator is aiming to end the pay and equity gap with a software tool it developed to make it easier to track, measure, and communicate how and what they pay their employees. Other platforms have tried to do measure pay across roles, such as Glassdoor and Angellist.

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San Francisco Raise Benchmark Wyoming 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? Take your pick!

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Social Media Nptech Ning Social 91

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Integration Data Nonprofit Causes 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email.

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Social Media Fun Experiment Media 105

Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. Measures can be aggregated. When you download your Spotify data, the time measure they use is milliseconds, written as ms. The “Hours played” column and measure will replace any measures related to milliseconds or “msPlayed” in the instructions.

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Music Data Chart Files 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.

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Washington Facebook Metrics Donor 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. They’ve had to do this conversion because there has been no comprehensive set of open data about the nonprofit sector available to them or the many others who would take advantage of it.

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Impact Data Nonprofit Government 106