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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I most like about his approach is that he makes data accessible to those of us who do not have advanced statistical analysis skills. He makes data visualization and working with data fun – and of course offers lots of practical insights. Why this resource? To create change, data must lead to action.

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Empowering Young Voices Globally in the Fight for Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Through a range of projects that combine science and technology, students develop a wealth of skills applicable to their futures — from learning to own and take responsibility for a project from A to Z, to discovering the impact of data analysis and sharing at local and global levels. Charlotte Kirby.

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Sano Genetics, a startup helping with Long Covid research, raises £2.5M in seed funding

TechCrunch

Founded in 2017 by Charlotte Guzzo, Patrick Short and William Jones after they met at Cambridge University while studying genomics as postgrads, Sano Genetics has built what it describes as a “private-by-design” tech platform to help patients take part in medical research and clinical trials.

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How to Spot Misleading Charts, a Checklist

Tableau

an “essential question for great data analysis and data visualizations.” Is the interpretation appropriate for the data analysis shown? Sometimes an appropriate chart and analysis can be misinterpreted. Consider the possibility of bias in the analysis and presentation of the data.

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Davos Codes: Connecting Students’ Passion for Their Planet with Technology

Saleforce Nonprofit

Through a range of projects that combine science and technology, such as monitoring air and water quality and local wildlife, students develop a wealth of skills applicable to their futures—from learning to own and take responsibility for an entire project to discovering the impact of data analysis and sharing at local and global levels. “In

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Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets

Google Research AI blog

We further provide a new lower bound on the additive error (of order n 2 ) for any private algorithm (irrespective of its running time) and provide an exponential-time algorithm that matches this lower bound. For more information on the Graph Mining team (part of Algorithm and Optimization ) visit our pages.

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