TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can your nonprofit even measure its return on investments (ROI)? Putting together an ROI report can be time consuming, but can also lead to great data and help you find ways to trim costs without shirking quality. And employees become more motivated when they can visually see the results of their efforts or measure their performance.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 7, 2024

Leveraging your data throughout the entire member journey can impact your association and your members. From successfully converting non-member audiences into members, to your membership engagement strategy, to events and non-dues revenue, data can inform every step along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

What Does the Data Say? What Does the Data Say? Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. Here is a rough narrative to accompany my ‘What does the data say?’

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. Fundraising Tech analytics data donors google analytics nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech' Image courtesy of Google User Content.

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TechImpact

JUNE 12, 2014

Cloud and big data go together like peas and carrots. Cloud computing enables big data, collaboration, more effective communication, and the ability to more effectively track outcomes. Here are 3 ways nonprofits can utilize cloud computing and big data to plan, measure, and deliver more effective and meaningful organizational plans.

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!) Your data security and anonymity are VERY IMPORTANT to us. Read time: 2 minutes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. We believe that the only unbiased, accurate and insightful way to understand how your developers are working, progressing and — last but definitely not least — how they’re feeling, is with data. Alex Circei.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 17, 2024

Parquet vs ORC vs Avro vs Delta Lake Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash The big data world is full of various storage systems, heavily influenced by different file formats. These are key in nearly all data pipelines, allowing for efficient data storage and easier querying and information extraction. So let’s get started!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing automation tools integrate with CRM systems, ensuring that donor data is up to date and synchronized across platforms. Other types of engagement, (clicks, email opens, social follows) can be factored into the scoring system, even if the data comes from a third party source. Which email copy is best? Test both!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Liberating 990 Data by Beth Simone Noveck.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

It was a blast to be with an entire conference full of social good software and data people from around the world. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. Of course we know that the questioner has no data to speak of and today’s answer is probably “nothing.” This is data in service to communities.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data and analytics used to be tools available to a small number of specially-trained people. Now, data is for everyone: anyone can become a data person and experience the joy of exploring data, asking and answering questions, and having the data they need at their fingertips to spark their next great idea.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data and analytics used to be tools available to a small number of specially-trained people. Now, data is for everyone: anyone can become a data person and experience the joy of exploring data, asking and answering questions, and having the data they need at their fingertips to spark their next great idea.

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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. What insights are buried within my archive of personal fitness activity data?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 2, 2024

The primary objective here is to establish a metric that can effectively measure the cleanliness level of a dataset, translating this concept into a concrete optimisation problem. Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? ) or HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

The basic version is free, but you can add on data like Klout scores for a minimal fee. It’s particularly useful for aggregating hashtags from events or trainings. It grabs all your “ bacn “ from social networks and aggregates into a single email. Tags: Engagement Influencers Listening Measurement.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau. Whether this is your first Tableau visualization or your 100th, let this be a chance to practice and grow your viz-building skills using your own personal data!

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This allows the training of models on locally available signals without exposing raw data to servers, increasing user privacy. Since that launch, we have worked to improve the privacy guarantees of this technology by carefully combining secure aggregation (SecAgg) and a distributed version of differential privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2012

This illustrates that the ROI of online engagement should not solely be measured by giving online. Additional findings from the study include. Online engagement improves the retention of traditional offline direct response donors. Adding digital channels does not materially cannibalize revenue from direct mail.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

And, how do these non-traditional digital makers get access to the resources to gather core needs, structure data in ways that serve civil society, and describe and measure impact? Of the five areas of questioning listed below, three were taken from Power to the Public : Design, Data, and Delivery. How is the data aggregated?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Unified data and efficient reporting maximizes impact management. Real-time program data builds donor trust.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau. Whether this is your first Tableau visualization or your 100th, let this be a chance to practice and grow your viz-building skills using your own personal data!

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Music Data Chart Files 98

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The company’s uptick in new user adds in 2020 is likely due at least in part to COVID-19, which saw a general increase in the number of people pursuing outdoor activities including cycling and running, particularly at the beginning of of the pandemic when more aggressive lockdown measures were being put in place.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

As data-loving professionals, our team gets many questions about what an engagement score is, how to assign members points and how to use the data. Strategic objectives – these are often harder to measure. Use data to calculate. We suggest using three years of data for relevancy. Don’t assign scores.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

In a previous blog post written by Kestryl Lowrey (Managing Director, Technology Services) and Stephen Earheart (Director, Campaign Services ), Cloud for Good explored the role of data warehouses in nonprofit technology strategies. Higher Education Data Warehousing Use Cases. Data Warehousing for Recruitment & Admissions.

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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. When people think about data, the concept of data visualization (aka.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

That’s where Medchart comes in, providing access to health information between businesses, complete with informed patient consent, for using said data at scale. Medchart originally started out as more of a DTC play for healthcare data, providing access and portability to digital health information directly to patients. .

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of the first organizations to run tests to measure referral traffic for ActionSprout.com was the David Suzuki Foundation , a Canadian Foundation working to protect the diversity of nature and Canadian’s quality of life, now and for the future. Case Study: ActionSprout and David Suzuki Foundation. Where did these people come from?

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

Privacy-related changes in technology platforms (like browsers and mobile operating systems), regulatory actions, and consumer preferences are forcing the digital marketing industry to rethink how they collect and analyze consumer data to understand how well they’re connecting with their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2007

Jerimiah Owyang points to a social media measurement tool called Blogscope. In the post, he includes a paragraph about why social media measurement is important (for businesses) Why is social media measurement important? With the brands being so decentralized , marketers now know that marketing has shifted off two domains. ???the

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Dataflow Architecture—Derived Data Views and Eventual Consistency A (not-so) brief history of a health & fitness data pipeline: part ii Welcome to part ii of our coming-of-age trilogy on a public health and fitness data pipeline. users, sensor stream New data is first written here. Source of truth (solid line) — e.g.

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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. Sometimes data spans multiple base tables in different, unrelated contexts.

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DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

These and many other questions are now on top of the agenda of every data science team. DataRobot Data Drift and Accuracy Monitoring detects when reality differs from the situation when the training dataset was created and the model trained. Meanwhile, DataRobot can continuously train Challenger models based on more up-to-date data.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And that information can almost always be broken down into its underlying data: the literal and figurative bits and bytes that catalog our lives, the work we do, and the world around us. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable! Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it.

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