Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. We finish the series by explaining the only time a pie chart actually is the right choice. When to Use a Pie Chart. As we state in our white paper, Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? Overlay pies on maps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. —– I love data as much as the next person.

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Metrics Impact Change NTEN 158

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. Even if it is just to get up and walk around my desk.

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. What kind of action and interaction already happens, and what actions or interaction are they looking to find? At least if you plan on interacting with them! That’s the sweet spot where you can count on focusing energy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Put as simply as you can, it's analyzing the connections between points in a network: links, follows, interactions, shared keywords, and so on. What is social network analysis?

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Map Network San Francisco Social 57

Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Interactive and dynamic charts will support a new visual vocabulary for your organization, allowing you to analyze data relationships around correlation, distribution, magnitude, rank, deviation, and change over time.

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Blackbaud Report Chart Analytics 94

Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The website is a publicly available, interactive resource that showcases how funding flows for U.S. Democracy website is a great resource to help you get started. democracy-related issues from 2011 onward.

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Fund Data Tools Free 97

Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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Map Philanthropy Data Script 50

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities. Datamaking can ground processes of joint learning that energize grantee relationships.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 103

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely. I’ve talked before about how to map your community and the messages within it.

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Influence Giving Broadcast Empowerment 114

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Tried to create a report and couldn't find a chart or graph that would clearly illustrate your point? Now think about making a chart comparing donation amounts for the past three years. But what about bar charts?

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Chart Library Time Analytics 36

Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Studies show that people spend an average of almost eight and a half hours interacting with digital media per day. Whether you own a pet-care business , bookstore, or flower shop, these five tips will help put your small business on the digital map. Fortunately, getting started doesn’t have to be complicated.

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Map Digital Business Marketing 52

NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Let User's Explore, Discover, and Control Moving beyond info-graphics and simple into interactive tools that let the users take control of the data themselves are another powerful way to reveal your story through data. Again, David uses the simple comparitive size of blocks to put “A billion dollars” into context. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task.

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

To identify your audience and tailor visualizations to their needs, use the following strategies: Identify stakeholders: Determine who will interact with your data visualizations, such as internal team members, constituents, or other stakeholders.

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Data Organization Chart Benchmark 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Check out the Tunisian Prison Map. Tunisian exile Sami Ben Gharbia is the creator of the Tunisian Prison Map -- an idea inspired by a New York Times interactive map charting murder locations. I couldn't attend the Global s Summit this year in person, but did it via IRC ever so briefly. in New York City.

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Mashup Global New York City New York 50

fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. Customization allows you to add new phone layouts, interactive offline previews, and more. Availability of Maps. The map is yet another key aspect of Tableau.

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Chart Map Database Data 52

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They can be presented as PDFs, videos, interactive web pages, online booklets, or in other unique formats. They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Charts, graphs, and prominently-displayed statistics help draw attention to the most important aspects of the postcard.

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Template Rhode Island Report Guide 88

Forum One

JANUARY 10, 2023

We think that data storytelling through maps, infographics, charts, and interactive features will become much more popular in 2023. Agencies with websites on either of those platforms should call Forum One ASAP to ensure your website is secure and supported. Data Storytelling – Government is swimming in data.

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Government Trend Digital Drupal 78

NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Air Force, in part for differentiating between "Trolls" and "Ragers" in their flow chart on how to respond to blog posts.). You don't need to be a Bonnie Tyler fan to appreciate the best flowchart of all time. Second place goes to the U.S. Proof that Roombas work. Add them to your CRM. Hand drawn!)

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). We like that this particular report’s table of contents is interactive, allowing readers to skip ahead to the sections they are most interested in.

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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

With the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Success Pack , they plan to track and manage relationships and interactions with constituents across all regions, allowing them to develop local leadership, build a diverse network of local groups that campaign with impact, and connect partners across the climate movement and social justice movement.

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Organization Massachusetts Org Africa 98

NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The ability to easily see how all your constituents interact with your organization, and with each other, makes for an attractive, ideal vision of what a database should be. Once you’ve defined how complex and related each constituent is, plot your constituent groups on a chart for a look at your overall constituent picture.

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Database Track Org Exercise 70

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Once you select the Channels tab it will bring up a chart showing your organic traffic: Selecting the Landing Page dimension will filter data to show individual page performance. Heat maps, Click Maps, and Session Recorders. Heat maps and click maps are helpful to show what content is most useful to visitors.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I've been accumulating resources about how to make presentations better (more interactive). My process is analog, but I have to start with a mind map of the ideas (sometimes several versions of it), then do a linear outline, and finally sketch out a storyboard with image ideas. to persuade, sell, or inform ??? is very much analog."

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Resource Storyboard Review PowerPoint 50

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Think of it like this: In “Community-driven Social Impact,” the driving is up to the community; but you can act as the vehicle and event the map for those “drivers.” What kind of action and interaction already happens, and what actions or interaction are they looking to find? At least if you plan on interacting with them!

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Case Study Community Impact Studies 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Also, it allows for a more interactive discussion because participants can share their knowledge. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector. Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

You can also use Visio 2013 to make dynamic diagrams and charts for your story. Use Esri’s geographic information system software to create maps that tell your story. SAP Crystal Reports : Make your charts and yearly reports jump off the page when you make them interactive and animated with SAP Crystal Reports.

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Story Digital Adobe Tools 55

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Moving beyond info-graphics and simple into interactive tools that let the users take control of the data themselves are another powerful way to reveal your story through data. Again, David uses the simple comparitive size of blocks to put “A billion dollars” into context. Let User’s Explore, Discover, and Control.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan. Build Relationships and Issues Awareness: You’re interacting with key audiences on the social media channel in order to build awareness for your organization's brand. I particularly like the worksheet.

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Social Media Media Social Evaluation 50

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Moving beyond info-graphics and simple into interactive tools that let the users take control of the data themselves are another powerful way to reveal your story through data. Again, David uses the simple comparitive size of blocks to put “A billion dollars” into context. Let User’s Explore, Discover, and Control.

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Data Story New York City New York 67

Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

But I think I may have found something: Silk is a free-for-nonprofits online tool that helps you create interactive data visualizations of your work, just by uploading a spreadsheet. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames. Too good to be true? What Is Silk?

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Impact Tutorial Chart Map 36

Forum One

MAY 30, 2024

Honest Visual Communication Just like a route map for a climber, visual elements such as imagery, icons, and infographics can be used to communicate complex ideas and information in a clear and honest manner. Scale charts and maps provide that visual representation that helps audiences engage and establish credibility.

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Design Communication Effective Chart 52

Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

But I think I may have found something: Silk is a free-for-nonprofits online tool that helps you create interactive data visualizations of your work, just by uploading a spreadsheet. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames. Too good to be true? What Is Silk?

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Impact Tutorial Map San Francisco 36