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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? Our goal for the new AARP LTSS Scorecard website was to design a chart anyone could look at and understand immediately how a state was doing.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. Give your audience a real-life comparison to your statistic so they can grasp it immediately.”. For example, the heading of a bar chart can state the specific interpretation that you want your audience to see, making it unnecessary to go into great detail about the data.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function. Here’s some examples.

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Best of Tableau Web: March 2022

Tableau

To mark the five-year publish anniversary of my book, The Big Book of Dashboards , we’re celebrating on Chart Chat ( sign up here ), and I also thought it a good time to look at how members of the Tableau Community are talking about dashboards these days. . Build a Selected vs. Comparison Date Period Filter in Tableau. Bronwen Boyd.

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Best of Tableau Web: March 2022

Tableau

To mark the five-year publish anniversary of my book, The Big Book of Dashboards , we’re celebrating on Chart Chat ( sign up here ), and I also thought it a good time to look at how members of the Tableau Community are talking about dashboards these days. . Build a Selected vs. Comparison Date Period Filter in Tableau. Bronwen Boyd.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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