Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. Publish the mapping publicly to incentivize adoption by product providers and grantmakers who may have custom solutions.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. And with this work, I invite discussions about this history, my analysis, and the implications for the future of analytics.

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Forum One

JUNE 26, 2024

Mapping this research to huge data sets and creating validated algorithms makes it possible to “score” language in a consistent manner. Analysis with a psycholinguistic lens can reveal if those attributes are supported or undermined by the language used on the page. Why use psycholinguistics?

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

Data visualization uses graphs, maps, and other graphics to communicate complex information more effectively. We knew the value of the website wasnt providing the number, but providing the interpretation, in the analysis, of that number. The competition for eyeballs is fierce, but data visualization offers a way to stand out.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

For comparison purposes, the prices listed in this article are for one line of service per month before taxes and fees. Check Verizon’s coverage map to see what’s available in your area. The company doesn’t provide any coverage maps for it, and it says only that it is deployed in “select innovation zones” in parts of certain cities.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 31, 2023

Here is a runtime comparison of the two methods over 100 runs of the intersection operation (note: because the default intersection function is slow, I only selected around 100 geometries from the original dataset): ? Geospatial data is bucketed into these hexagons, which serve as the company’s main unit of analysis.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Donation Tracking & Optimization Volunteer Management Mission Impact Content Campaign Performance Stakeholder Journey Analysis Technical Performance Community Building Geographic Impact Board Reporting Email Campaign Performance Regional Geographic Analysis Seasonal Performance Analysis Donation Tracking & Optimization Track donation funnel (..)

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. . This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

The next step is for these apps to add greater purpose by encouraging more meaningful checkins and offering corresponding badges and stamps, thus mapping the cause universe. The Green Map app is another that facilitates discovery and connects us to local green environments. No more paper and a much better experience.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 27, 2023

Here’s a comparison between reading the data without and with thepyarrow backend, using the Hacker News dataset, which is around 650 MB (License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ): [link] As you can see, using the new backend makes reading the data nearly 35x faster. So, long story short, PyArrow takes care of our previous memory constraints of versions 1.X

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

If you’re mapping a continent, 30-meter resolution is overkill, but if you’re checking the margins of a lake for harmful chemicals or a field for dehydration, you want to get as exact as you can. So Pixxel is building “a generalized platform with built-in models and analysis,” said Ahmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. It looks like a mapping tool in the works that will let you visualize your Twitter network by retweets from Dan Zarrella. (hatip stacymonk ) He collected over 84,000 retweets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

In this analysis , Coldeway published a head-to-head comparison of top generative AI tools — asking them to create everything from a phishing email to code. Despite the overactive news scene, thanks to ChatGPT plug-ins, Google’s entrance and Canva’s magic, the best piece I read all week came from our own Devin Coldeway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While comparisons to companies like Dataminr are fair, Benigson said, Signal AI differs from these as it provides more context both in the kinds of queries that can be asked by users, and in the responses that are given.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Today, the Foundation Center , GuideStar , the Urban Institute , Johns Hopkins’ Center for Civil Society Studies , and Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy spend millions each year on converting the IRS images of the Form 990 into clean data that a computer can ingest and use to perform analysis and develop visualizations.

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Google Research AI blog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arik, Research Scientists, Google Research, Cloud AI Team Analysis of Electronic Health Records ( EHR ) has a tremendous potential for enhancing patient care, quantitatively measuring performance of clinical practices, and facilitating clinical research. Downstream task performance (AUC) in comparison to alternatives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is NOT a feature comparison but rather a market mapping to educate them on the players. Many use a 2×2 map to show who is in the market based on two attributes where your company sits alone in the top right quadrant. Cohort analysis. Competitive landscape. Sales pipeline. Deeper dive into current customers.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

By providing a clear view of each data point, Beeswarm charts are handy in detailed exploratory data analysis where individual data values are interesting. These diagrams provide a visual map of interconnections, helping users to understand how data points interact and influence each other. Product Radial Tree by Tristan Guillevin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it using CoverIt Live) to capture everything- I am more interested in the types of posts our Conference Bloggers created that had reflection and analysis (and criticism, we want that too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches. Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and re already using as nonprofits to broaden our reach???Plaxo,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The right metric for this market share analysis is unequivocally revenue — daily active users (DAU) x average revenue per user (ARPU). Facebook, by comparison, announced just weeks ago a paltry $1 billion program over a year and change. Circuit Court of Appeals in FTC v. AbbVie (2020). And Facebook controls over 90%.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When communicating with data, viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers can help us very quickly understand our data, make comparisons, see patterns or trends, and use that information to make better decisions. Topic to investigate: Why Did the authors have a particular motive behind gathering the data and doing the analysis?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Tableau's handy white paper on Visual Analysis Best Practices explains why they're often not the best choice: "We suggest avoiding them for two reasons: 1) The human visual system is not very good at estimating area, and 2) You can only compare slices that are right next to each other. Why You Need to Move Beyond the Pie Chart.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Analysis and synthesis tasks, like crafting new documents or emails from a few sentences of guidance, or partnering with people to jointly write software together. Performance comparison between the PaLM 540B parameter model and the prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 58 tasks from the Big-bench suite. All kinds of tasks.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 21, 2025

Comparison to existing interpretability metrics: Progress on interpretability is heavily dependent on defining notions of simplicity e.g. Apollos recent input-specific weight-component objective, etc.; which do not provide a uniform level of analysis and do not offer systematic insight usable to advance human-led interpretability efforts.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Fundraising How To Create a Donor Journey Map and Cultivate Recurring Giving 11 min read Read Now 3. 7 min read Read Now 2.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While in theory you could organize fundraising campaigns as needs come up and cross your fingers for good results, mapping out your strategy ahead of time is a much better move. As of 2024, 58% of nonprofits have incorporated AI into their communication processes, and 68% use it to assist with data analysis.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. We are changing our analysis and shifting our practices to be fully accountable to racial justice movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Thanking donors individually on Facebook and including the link to the fundraiser triggered donations based on comparison of time posted and donation made, second most effective solicitation was a personal ask via private message. Approximately 85% of the donations were converted from my personal profile on Facebook.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Looking through reviews and comparisons of digital assistants in this period, two things stick out. A comparison of Siri and Samsung’s S Voice in 2012 notes that the latter already “offers a very good approximation” of Apple’s digital assistant, while a head-to-head test in 2014 shows that “ Google Now crushes Siri.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. This session will use a training game as a conversation starter for participants to begin to identify the most important metric mapped with strategy. He gives a great list of what goes into the map. Think Nielsen Ratings ). The Web is changing!

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

4] [5] Even if you happen to find my theses/arguments/analysis wrong/lacking/confused, I'm hopeful you might find [the hypotheses]/[the questions my notes are trying to make progress on] interesting. In particular, I'd like to have a catalogue of comparisons between evolution-made and human-made things meeting some specifications. [72]

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Lower taxes and living costs, in comparison to its English neighbour, are what urged this move originally. What other global cities are being put on the map of innovation? Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Lists' Dublin, Ireland. It’s no wonder Google invested top dollar in its 8,000 sq. meter Tel Aviv offices.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

If you want to use your John Deere tractor with another farming analysis vendor, how easy is that? And the farmer is creating, while they’re running the combine through the field, a dataset that we call a yield map. So we create this three-dimensional map that is the yield across whatever field they happen to be in.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This paper also lays some theoretical groundwork that will be important for later analysis of different reward learning algorithms. For example, IRL relies on policies, whereas RLHF relies on (noisy) comparisons between trajectories, etc. We now just need one more definition: Definition : A reward transformation is a map t : R R.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

STARC Metrics In the paper, we propose a family of pseudometrics on the space of all reward functions, which we refer to as STAndardised Reward Comparison (STARC) metrics. The requirement that c is linear makes our later analysis much simpler, and is not too restrictive in practice. STARC metrics are computed in several steps.

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