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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Step 6: Annotate.

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How Nonprofits Can Tell Powerful Stories Through Data Visualization 

Allegiance Group

Designing Charts and Color to Communicate Quickly How do you simplify a text- and data-heavy scorecard while still accurately and quickly conveying the complex information policy-makers seek? AARPs data set presented an interesting information design challenge: the numbers and percentages for the various metrics didnt use a consistent scale.

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Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists to Make Sense of Your Data

sgEngage

Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting. Charts make it easy to make sense of a lot of data by creating context. The “What is This Report Telling Me?”

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Dashboard Design Principles

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This requires some discipline to think long and hard about what data is most useful to gain an understanding. A nonprofit recently shared their social media metrics spreadsheet with me and it was 150 rows of data that require constant scrolling. Step B: Identify the comparison. Step C: Select the right chart. (5)

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How to Prepare Donor Data Reports for Your Board Members

Bloomerang

However, most board members aren’t familiar with various fundraising metrics and won’t be able to draw effective conclusions when they’re presented with data without an explanation of what the data shows. . The last thing you want to do is waste their time and bog their donor reports down with unnecessary metrics. .

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How does Valve’s Steam Deck compare to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5?

The Verge

The most obvious comparison for the Steam Deck is, of course, Nintendo’s Switch — particularly the upcoming OLED model — which offers a similar handheld configuration, screen size, and design. The PS5 and Xbox Series X win out in virtually every metric. Image: Valve. Both devices feature 720p touchscreen displays, too. (The

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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

Candid

The chart below compares the proportion of nonprofits by subject area overall (in blue) with that of the subset of nonprofits sharing demographic data (in orange). In the chart below, we compared sharing rates by different staffing levels and demographic categories, including race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status.