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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Excel provides all sorts of default chart types to choose from, but the truth is, keep it as simple as possible.

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3 Signs Your Organization Needs a Nonprofit Accounting System

sgEngage

Your Chart of Accounts/Class List Becomes Unwieldy Nonprofit accounting, and fund accounting in general, is all about tracking, managing, segmenting, and reporting on individual funds. If all you had to worry about were a single program or revenue stream, it would be relatively easy to manage your nonprofit accounting in a for-profit system.

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Why Data SHOULD Drive Your Strategy

Association Analytics

But even in the comparatively geological timescale that the association industry works in compared to the corporate world, focusing on whats next is vital to the future health of any non-profit. Their reasoning? Thats hard – if not impossible – when all thats fed to them is anecdote and qualitative judgement.

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Lovely Charts

Wild Apricot

If you’re looking for a way to jazz up your organization’s reports, newsletters, web pages and other publications, what about a chart? Not just the usual boxes and arrows with plain-Jane text labels, but something more of an eye-catching illustration: a lovely chart! read more ).

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How to Write a Case for Support for Your Non-Profit (Part II)

The Fundraising Authority

In Part I of this article , we talked about the importance of your non-profit case for support (also called a “case statement”). We also looked at which non-profits need written case statements and how they are used. The post How to Write a Case for Support for Your Non-Profit (Part II) first appeared on The Fundraising Authority.

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VCs are racing to pay more to get smaller pieces of less profitable companies

TechCrunch

As is common from the bank’s publications, it’s a dense riff of charts and notes, ranging from economic data and trade figures to venture capital statistics. SVB data shows a useful 2020 versus 2021 differential, with an aggregate chart tracking the same data over a longer time period on the right: Image Credits: SVB.

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Apple grabbed 75 percent of global handset operating profit in Q2 2021 on just 13 percent of shipment share

TechSpot

Counterpoint Research in its latest market report has charted manufacturers’ progress in shipments, revenue and profit since the first quarter of 2019. Since that time, major players have jockeyed for position in terms of shipment share. In all but one quarter, Samsung finished on top, but the battle for second.

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