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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images. However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Copenhagen Framework Boosts Citizen Participation in Data

The NonProfit Times

Levey The best way for data and statistics to reflect traditionally underrepresented populations is for groups and individuals representing these populations to participate in data gathering, analysis and presentation. Placing an emphasis on citizen-led data processes yields outputs that better reflect populations being analyzed.

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What Tools Are You Using for Listening, Engaging, and Social Media Management?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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10 Donor Data Migration Decisions: Q&A with Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

Check our blog – you will find that we periodically report on the aggregated polling results. In question 1, the response rate for people finding it easier to conduct fundraising campaigns was higher than our observed norm, 29% today vs. 21% all results aggregated. From this group of respondents, we learned a few things.

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Analyzing the history of Tableau innovation

Tableau

In this blog post, I'll describe my analysis of Tableau's history to drive analytics innovation—in particular, I've identified six key innovation vectors through reflecting on the top innovations across Tableau releases. The innovation category radio widget in the top right of the history view describes my analysis.

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25 SMART Social Media Objectives

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical.