3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? Because data is boring. Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Top 10 Secrets of Excel Data Nerds. My Nonprofit Needs a Data Nerd and How to Find Them! That’s why I’m sharing the tips, tricks, and insider advice to transform you into a data nerd.

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Tableau

AUGUST 20, 2021

As always with Iron Viz, I get the most joy from the small but important design flourishes, the little tweaks that advance the data storytelling, and the sometimes-hidden steps that elevate the data analysis. Don’t be afraid of “boring” bar charts. although sometimes elaborate charts impress in other ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But it is also a quiet time of year and a good time to catch up on reading. Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement.

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Tableau

AUGUST 6, 2024

Spencer Czapiewski August 6, 2024 - 6:34pm Kyle Massey VP Lead Software Engineer Kyle Massey, a two-time Tableau DataDev Ambassador and co-leader of the DataPride Tableau User Group, shares his experience with VizQL Data Service. What is VizQL Data Service? Why should you be excited about VizQL Data Service?

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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. At the end of the year, you’ll have twelve new data points about your audience.

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Tableau

AUGUST 20, 2021

As always with Iron Viz, I get the most joy from the small but important design flourishes, the little tweaks that advance the data storytelling, and the sometimes-hidden steps that elevate the data analysis. Don’t be afraid of “boring” bar charts. although sometimes elaborate charts impress in other ways.

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Data Chart Lesson Communication 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Colten Woo November 15, 2023 - 5:12pm Daniel Platt Senior Product Manager, Tableau The quest for timely, accurate, and actionable insights is perennial in the ever-evolving data analytics landscape. Business users and data analysts alike grapple with the challenge of translating vast swathes of data into meaningful narratives.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2021

The successes of responding to the pandemic as one data community illustrate the necessity and strength of this kind of collaboration.” - Rabah Kamal. Campion, members of the Tableau Advisory Board, what they felt were the biggest data lessons they’ve learned since the beginning of the pandemic. March 10, 2021.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Shortly after the benchmarks were shared on the livestream, OpenAI product engineer Rex Asabor posted an "updated" chart with o3 beating Grok 3 Reasoning in math and science benchmarks. Flash Thinking have gone viral for looking like the most advanced reasoning model. But OpenAI said, "Not so fast."

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Demographic data sharing varies by nonprofit subject category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. The skills are out there.

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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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Tableau

AUGUST 14, 2024

Data Skills Program Manager, Tableau We’ve all been there: You’re talking with a friend, watching the news, or sitting in a meeting and the conversation turns to data. At Tableau, we believe that everyone needs some level of data literacy, and the best place to start is with the basics.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today, Candid released our latest research manual, Analyzing Candid’s demographic data. nonprofits currently share some demographic data about their staff and board with Candid. In fact, about 1,000 nonprofits are now adding demographic data to their Candid profiles every month. Over 62,000 U.S. For example, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

You don’t have to be the world’s best artist to create a respectable infographic to help you make sense of your data, but it does take a little consideration and small amount of inspiration. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. I started with working on getting enough sleep each night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Basically, connections can describe anything you want to gather data about to make decisions to improve your network or reach your goals. Source: Monitor Institute.

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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

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In February 2010, The Economist published a report called “ Data, data everywhere.” Little did we know then just how simple the data landscape actually was. That is, comparatively speaking, when you consider the data realities we’re facing as we look to 2022. What does that mean for our data world now?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Data analysis and data communication are fundamental to the way people and businesses understand concepts, make decisions, and create solutions. Anyone who communicates with data needs to be mindful of the impact of the stories they tell. What it means to approach data with an equitable lens. Key recommendations.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. Working with data is a necessity for most jobs, and analytical skills can be a huge differentiator for success across all kinds of work—whether corporate, nonprofit, or academic. Without closing the data skills gap, these challenges would continue into their professional lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Data analysis and data communication are fundamental to the way people and businesses understand concepts, make decisions, and create solutions. . Anyone who communicates with data needs to be mindful of the impact of the stories they tell. How the concept of empathy relates to data, research, and visualizations. .

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The four key questions are: What data to collect?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Atlassian platform is chock full of data about how a company operates and communicates. Atlassian launched a machine learning layer, which relies on data on the platform with the addition of Atlassian Smarts last fall. Before being acquired, Chartio has generated its share of data, reporting that 280,000 users have created 10.5

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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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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

The increasing pressure on your nonprofit not just to do good work, but to prove your impact – coupled with the increasing use of databases and online services – has led to exponential growth in data within the nonprofit sector. I'd like to offer four areas we need to address to make the most of our data and increase our impact.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Bringing AI models from research to the PC requires curation of model variants, adaptation to manage all of the input and output data, and quantization to optimize resource usage. With these tools, users can create personalized AI assistants and integrate their own documents and data, helping automate tasks and enhance productivity.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. There are many sites that allow you to upload data, as well as download other data, for free. The site hosts a wealth of data searchable by agency, category, topic, or geographically.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Too often, health data is locked in massive datasets that are opaque to all but epidemiologists and statisticians.

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Tableau

APRIL 6, 2021

In the April release of Tableau Prep, you can now invoke the power of Salesforce Einstein Discovery to bulk score your data directly in your flow. With this integration, you can apply predictive machine learning models built in Einstein Discovery to your flow data, then generate predicted outcomes directly in your flow. April 7, 2021.

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