InfoWorld

MARCH 11, 2024

In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the monthly billing, deliver some reports, maybe answer some ad hoc queries. Databases were important, but they weren’t in constant demand. Databases are often tasked with powering business operations and hyperscale online services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Customers who are using Muck Rack’s database include Google, International Rescue Committee, Pfizer, Golin, Zapier and Duolingo, it said. Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch. Elser and Scott Feldman of SGE will be joining the board.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

There’s plenty of vendors in the managed database services market — and plenty that are well-financed. Take a look at SingleStore , which last October raised $30 million to bring its database tech to new customers. Tobie Morgan Hitchcock believes that there’s room for at least one more player, though.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

I’ve also been compiling a list of every donor database I come across at https://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1661. Provide strong reporting and analytic tools. Software alone seldom gets the job done. I’m currently working with clients that are considering Blackbaud and Convio’s database products (among others).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

A lot of the focus in recruitment these days has been on better technology to connect people to job opportunities at new organizations, but that also leaves a wide opening to focus on one of the other big funnels for finding work: internal transfers. “Look for new jobs outside the company, or try to look internally.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs. All that, and we aren’t touching on the implications of accounting, systems integrations, data warehousing, ad hoc databases, and search. Well, for starters, every system, software or technology mentioned has its own database. There’s a lot.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 3, 2019

But your job doesn’t stop there. If you really want to get the most out of socials, interpreting your analytics and using them to your advantage is key. . Where are my analytics located? On Facebook , your analytics tab is actually named “Insights.” Congratulations! Which information matters most? Post times.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 3, 2023

From Enormous Data back to Big Data Say you are tasked with building an analytics application that must process around 1 billion events (1,000,000,000) a day. The scope here is based on the speed in which a process must complete which in turn limits the complexity of the job as a factor of time. The reason for this is cost.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

The site I co-founded, DesignCrowd.com, grew from a garage office to a thriving marketplace with 148,000 designers, and businesses who have created $12 million worth of jobs, in just a few years by applying these ideas. The ability to drive user demand for your product through data analytics and testing to improve its conversion rate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Related to this are companies like Airtable, which attempt to make building relational databases and interrogating them as easy as creating a spreadsheet. The idea is to let Airtable do the database grunt work, combined with Softr’s relatively flexible but template-driven approach to website and web app creation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Generative AI continues to fuel growth at online learning platforms like Coursera , which has doubled down on micro-credentials and now offers more than 80 professional certificates with AI courses that are intended to prepare job candidates for entry-level roles without a college degree.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

What happens if you’re heading into 2024 with big goals and ambitions and a database filled with duplicates? Data should be a planned project Cleaning up data can feel like a daunting job. Data should be everybody’s job When you’re making it a point to plan your data clean up, make sure to pull everyone in on the project.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Tricia Marsherall is the Founder & President of Marsherall Partners, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in nonprofit donor database management & operations support and virtual & traditional fundraising events. Analytics can be an extremely powerful tool for generating reports. What Caused Your Data Nightmare to Begin With?

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 2, 2024

For example, if one of your goals is to make your organization’s join process better, your action plan might have these steps: Look at Google Analytics to see what kind of traffic the join page gets and where people abandon. Meet with your membership database and marketing team to map the member join process and map the journey.

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Tableau

AUGUST 23, 2021

As more businesses accelerate digital transformation initiatives, leaders are gaining a better understanding of the value of data, and want to scale analytics across their organization. Linked tasks in Tableau Prep Conductor allow you to schedule multiple flow jobs to run one after another on Tableau Server. August 24, 2021 - 2:19am.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

NewVantage Partners’ 2022 poll of chief data and analytics officers found that less than half (47.4%) believed that they’re competing on data and analytics. With Omni, we’re filling the gap between instant-gratification analytics and the reliability and governance of mature enterprise BI.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Fetcher filters jobseekers into prebuilt email workflows, offering analytics including progress toward diversity goals at the individual, team, position, and company levels. The Fetcher candidate directory. ’ This model allows for what feels like a 24/7 sourcer to work in the background for each client.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

The first thing to understand about membership database software is that the name itself is pretty misleading. It’s actually a combination of two different functions: The database itself that holds information on your members and the platform that allows you to do things with that information.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Connectors enable Tableau to access additional databases and applications. Formerly called Dashboard Starters, Accelerators include pre-built dashboards that help you dive straight into problem solving and create robust visualizations in minutes—even if you don’t consider yourself an analytics expert.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

It’s too easy to think you’re doing a good job with fundamental strategies just because you know what they are. Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. If someone told you there was sure money behind 10 different doors, would you think you’d done an effective job by only looking behind five or six of them?

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Tableau

AUGUST 23, 2021

As more businesses accelerate digital transformation initiatives, leaders are gaining a better understanding of the value of data, and want to scale analytics across their organization. Linked tasks in Tableau Prep Conductor allow you to schedule multiple flow jobs to run one after another on Tableau Server. August 24, 2021 - 2:19am.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But managing your organization’s data—particularly your donor data—will make the rest of your job so much easier. Establishing rules around who is responsible for entering donor information (Example: Does everyone know how to use your donor database correctly, or should they submit new information to a database manager?)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The service, which was founded in 2020, integrates with over 100 data sources , covering all the standard B2B SaaS tools from Airtable to Shopify and Zendesk, as well as database services like Google’s BigQuery. And that in turn led him to also found a second company that focused on B2B data analytics. Image Credits: y42.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 7, 2025

One question that puzzled me, though, was how tools like the Debezium CDC connectors can read changes from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Change Data Capture (CDC) is a powerful and efficient tool for transmitting data changes from relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Sure, transactional logs might be the answerbut why?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability, organizations are often fighting a losing battle if they try to run analytics or any observability process in a centralized way. “Our special sauce is in this distributed mesh network of agents,” Unlu said.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Refers to data sets so large and complex that traditional database tools are not able to manage or process the data. Data brokers rely upon big data warehouses to store, manage and transfer data sets that they sell to customers such as nonprofit organizations looking to append their donor databases.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Meroxa , a startup that makes it easier for businesses to build the data pipelines to power both their analytics and operational workflows, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Drive Capital. million seed round now brings total funding in the company to $19.2 Image Credits: Meroxa.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Then you begin researching database objects and find a couple of views, but there are some inconsistencies between them so you do not know which one to use. Accessing Operational Data I used to connect to views in transactional databases or APIs offered by operational systems to request the raw data. Does it sound familiar?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In my early career, my generation was faced with a job market and wages that did not keep pace with inflation, a situation that has precipitously worsened for the newest crop of workers. We manage the databases, gift processing, donor acknowledgment, and serve the analytics back to our fundraisers.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Connectors enable Tableau to access additional databases and applications. Formerly called Dashboard Starters, Accelerators include pre-built dashboards that help you dive straight into problem solving and create robust visualizations in minutes—even if you don’t consider yourself an analytics expert.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nonprofit pros and analytics teams know that collecting data is the easy part. Drawing on their deep experience in healthcare fundraising and consulting, analytics experts Liza Turcotte and Julian Heidelberg break down how to make data work for your cause, including: Focusing on best practices throughout the donor cycle.

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Allegiance Group

JULY 3, 2024

Many professionals tout its powerful and unmatched efficiency, and just as many are afraid it’s coming for their jobs. Yet today, they’re stronger than ever, thanks to predictive analytics and natural language processors (NLPs). It’s precisely why you can’t just sit back and expect AI to do your job for you.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This involves getting data from an API and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. In the second phase, we’ll develop an application that uses a language model to interact with this database. The second article, which will come later, will delve into creating agents using tools like LangChain to communicate with external databases.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

My first job as a product designer was at a small but energetic fintech startup whose engineers also dabbled in pulling data. So far, I’ve managed to maintain my obnoxious statistical probing habit without making any mortal enemies in my 20s. As it turns out, that habit comes with its perks when working in product.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Analytics offered by numerous email marketing tools now allow you to track how many recipients opened your emails, see what they clicked on, and understand which aspects of your messaging users respond to, thus bringing you a wealth of information on what your users are interested in and helping you improve your messaging for greater impact. “As

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How to build a modern, scalable data platform to power your analytics and data science projects (updated) Table of Contents: What’s changed? Simply cobbling together data pipelines and cron jobs across various applications no longer works, so there are new considerations when discussing data platforms at scale.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 14, 2025

Even as people move residences and change jobs, they tend to hold on to their cell phone numbers, as reflected in the decreased use of landlines. Even if you dont have SMS messaging in place, you can start by proactively building a database of mobile numbers so it’s ready when you do. Make opting in or out easy.

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