Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Efficient geospatial manipulations for OSM map data Photo by Tabea Schimpf on Unsplash If you’ve worked with OSM data before, you know it’s not the easiest to extract. In fact, if you wanted, you could download the entirety of Open Street Maps data into one file, known as Planet (around 1000 Gb of data)! ?‍?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. A core concept in systems mapping is “purpose”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Explore how the strategic integration of SWOT analysis, audience mapping, SMART communication targets, channel identification, content strategy, execution and evaluation, and high-level communications planning can shape a successful digital transformation. With ChatGPT’s analytical prowess, the process can be augmented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. You can also build a consensus among your colleagues about who exactly your target audience is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing Every Stage of ‘The Donor’s Journey’ It’s tempting to think of marketing as a broad-minded approach that’s focused on building awareness with the largest audience possible. In these cases, marketing automation can help you slowly build a relationship in a way that’s appropriate and not too fast.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

AI research lab DeepMind has created the most comprehensive map of human proteins to date using artificial intelligence. Proteins are long, complex molecules that perform numerous tasks in the body, from building tissue to fighting disease. anyone can use it for anything”. Image: DeepMind. Image: DeepMind. “We

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Content Mapping. >>

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service. ” Ocean floor mapping robotics startup Bedrock announces an $8M raise. “This is a big data problem — how would you design the systems to support that solution?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Enjoy multiple enhancements to bring your geospatial analysis to the next level, including multiple marks layers support for maps , Redshift spatial support, and more. Explore next-level analysis with two new predictive functions models. You can now add unlimited marks layers from a single data source to your map visualizations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Spatial analysis platform Carto has raised a $61 million Series C round. Carto lets you display that data on interactive maps so that you can more easily compare, optimize, balance and take decisions. You can move around a map, select and unselect layers and see the real numbers. Insight Partners is leading today’s round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

APRIL 22, 2025

By integrating human-derived brain organoids with AI-driven analysis, were building a platform that better reflects the complexity of human neurobiology and improves the likelihood of clinical success. The company is a member of NVIDIA Inception , a global network of cutting-edge startups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. Build Relationships and Issues Awareness: You’re interacting with key audiences on the social media channel in order to build awareness for your organization's brand. Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. Identify Objectives.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 22, 2020

release comes fully-loaded with tons of great features, including several key updates to boost your geospatial analysis. In particular, the new multiple marks layers feature lets you add an unlimited number of layers to the map. Drag and drop map layers—yes, it’s just that easy. The Tableau 2020.4 Getting started is easy!

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

With NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries for data science, developers can significantly accelerate data processing and machine learning tasks, enabling faster exploratory data analysis, feature engineering and model development with zero code changes. This makes AI more accessible and powerful than ever.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool , an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in their careers as architects. Example of cove.tool software for optimizing building design. Now the company is $5.7 Image Credit: cove.tool.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Links are great for SEO , and this is great info for building better relationships with sites that like what you do, or even keeping an eye on competing sites. Paste a passage into the app and you’ll get an analysis that highlights overly dense passages, unnecessary adverbs and more. Next: LinkedIn and Website Analysis Tools.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs , Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale up to today’s data challenges. Neptyne joins a raft of startups on a mission to transform the traditional spreadsheet.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Want to build a powerful movement online? Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. How do you find a developer to build an app?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Staff members were at the core of the map. They reorganized the map into clusters. Observations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems. Open Source philanthropy data open data big data maps Social Progress Index' on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Marc's talk was fantastically insightful and full of ways that community managers can use social network analysis to gain greater insights into and grow their communities. What is social network analysis?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

That’s likely why it took us 450 years after being “discovered” to grab a map of the world, turn it on its head and put Latin America in the center of things (thanks to the Uruguayan artist and thinker, Joaquin Torres-Garcia ). So, what companies should we build? Entrepreneur Latin America Analysis and Opinion'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software. Radio Bilingue.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Whether driving engagement with fans, or helping athletes reach their potential, Team USA is all-in with analytics—building a digital HQ with Tableau and Salesforce Customer 360. The International Competitive Analysis team was the first group to reap the benefits, using Tableau to analyze and visualize complex competition results data.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2024

The list is long and includes roles like information technology, evaluation, grants analysis, learning and change, systems management, and more. The most useful tip for addressing alignment is to actually enter the tech conversation with a discussion of the desired analysis.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Whether driving engagement with fans, or helping athletes reach their potential, Team USA is all-in with analytics—building a digital HQ with Tableau and Salesforce Customer 360. The International Competitive Analysis team was the first group to reap the benefits, using Tableau to analyze and visualize complex competition results data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Immunai’s approach to developing new insights around the human immune system uses a ‘multi-omic’ approach – essentially layering analysis of different types of biological data, including a cell’s genome, microbiome, epigenome (a genome’s chemical instruction set) and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Building a solid core, participants can use social media tools to easily connect NGOS with new people who have knowledge, resources, and ideas to share to help with the project goals. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection?

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

She begins with the basic assumption: When we apply a network mindset to our work, we affirm that value is created through our interactions, relationships build social capital, and that relationships are capital. Social network analysis can reveal knowledge flows and roles. Network analysis provides a new measurement tool.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They’re walking along untraveled roads without a map. In success theater, entrepreneurs will build a business model around their unknown and highly unpredictable idea to make it seem like a high ROI project. Build self-organized teams. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Deep Vision , a new AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions, is coming out of stealth today. Because of its strength in real-time video analysis, the company is aiming its chip at solutions around smart retail, including cashier-less stores, smart cities and Industry 4.0/robotics.

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Tableau

MAY 27, 2021

Since our initial launch of Ask Data, we’ve been hard at work building out new natural language capabilities. Finding the data you need for your analysis has never been easier. Better workflow, better analysis, better decisions. Area spatial calculation + Map layer control. In Tableau 2021.2,

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