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Why Data SHOULD Drive Your Strategy

Association Analytics

Leaders (Should) Want Metrics When you talk with any executive, often its results they want, not information on how the sausage is made. And if a new CEO comes on, they dont want to have to get the feel of the organization for a few months, thats what a dashboard and a few trend charts are for.

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If a Metric Changes on a Spreadsheet and No One Notices, Does it Show Impact?

Amy Sample Ward

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. Establishing regular meetings or processes for metrics review helps position us to learn from the data we’re collecting and be better positioned to identify opportunities to improve. —– I love data as much as the next person.

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Foundation models for reasoning on charts

Google Research AI blog

It is ubiquitous in our digital life in the form of iconography, infographics, tables, plots, and charts, extending to the real world in street signs, comic books, food labels, etc. In light of these challenges, we propose “ MatCha: Enhancing Visual Language Pretraining with Math Reasoning and Chart Derendering ”.

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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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6 Best Practices for Increasing Engagement with Digital Impact Reports

sgEngage

And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. Infographics, charts, and visuals can also help make complex information more digestible and showcase the difference your organization makes.

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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. That’s where a list format would be more valuable.

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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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