Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. And contrary to popular belief, visualizing data is not intuitive; it must be learned and practiced like any other skill to become proficient. What skills or concepts do you think are most important to cover for students using health and healthcare data? Sue Kraemer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I can’t possibly read everything, but I am using content curation skills to pick out the best stuff to give more attention to. 3.) Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Tableau

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rosario Gauna and Donna Coles both wrote tutorials on the heels of the challenge, detailing how they approached the main requirements: donut charts, bar charts, divergent bar charts, and heatmaps. Process descriptions like this are extremely informative as we develop our own skills.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

After all, what better way to test your skills than explaining a technique to others? Charting "Top N and Others" via Table Calculations in Tableau. Drawing Line Charts without Axis Offset in Tableau. Spaghetti Charts Suggested Alternative: A Trellis Chart. Ten Tips & Techniques: Round 5. Nir Smilga.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

After all, what better way to test your skills than explaining a technique to others? Charting "Top N and Others" via Table Calculations in Tableau. Drawing Line Charts without Axis Offset in Tableau. Spaghetti Charts Suggested Alternative: A Trellis Chart. Ten Tips & Techniques: Round 5. Nir Smilga.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

AIs Emergence and Homogenization In that talk, Liang coined two terms to describe foundation models: Emergence refers to AI features still being discovered, such as the many nascent skills in foundation models. See chart below.) But like transformers, the new technique soon caught fire. The field continues to move fast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

One of the ways to reduce handle this stress, is to flex your emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. What is your favorite journaling technique? Do you keep a journal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill. We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

One of the topics the peer learning group took a deep dive into was selecting the right chart and techniques offered by nonprofit data nerds Stephanie Evergreen (who write a guest post on how to create great graphs ) and Anne Emery’s tips on how to avoid boring bar charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’ll find them talking about topics like Data Culture, Business Intelligence, Data Skills, and more. Being a Tableau Ambassador allows me to help others learn Tableau and empower them with analytics and data visualization skills. Now she makes maps and all the other charts and graphs in Tableau (on a Mac, naturally!)

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Tableau

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rosario Gauna and Donna Coles both wrote tutorials on the heels of the challenge, detailing how they approached the main requirements: donut charts, bar charts, divergent bar charts, and heatmaps. Process descriptions like this are extremely informative as we develop our own skills.

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Web Chart Tutorial Survey 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Offer Training in Conflict Management To Social Media Professionals: The book describes techniques for conflict management and how to respond in various situations, but organizing a training for staff that includes role play and simulations to practice these skills is also important.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This shift in working with data—from a job for the few to a skill for everyone—is actively redefining how the world thinks about analytics.”. We also shared more about Tableau Business Science , a new category of analytics that makes sophisticated data science techniques more accessible for business people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

Truly effective leaders are also distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. Self-Management Skills. Inside Out.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I've charted those – so I know when they occur). Have any techniques to add to this list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This shift in working with data—from a job for the few to a skill for everyone—is actively redefining how the world thinks about analytics.”. We also shared more about Tableau Business Science , a new category of analytics that makes sophisticated data science techniques more accessible for business people.

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

I want to shout out to all the Community members providing content and blogs to the Tableau Community in multiple languages and making data skills more accessible across the world. Ten Table Tips & Techniques - Round 4. Calculate the AREA of your polygons in Tableau and then create charts to compare the sizes. Nir Smilga.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. Do you have a preferred method?

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

I want to shout out to all the Community members providing content and blogs to the Tableau Community in multiple languages and making data skills more accessible across the world. Ten Table Tips & Techniques - Round 4. Calculate the AREA of your polygons in Tableau and then create charts to compare the sizes. Nir Smilga.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We designed a highly interactive workshop based on Jo Wolfe’s “ NGO Digital Maturity Matrix ,” an assessment tool that enables nonprofits to codify mindsets and skill sets required for moving along the path of digital transformation. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I had a chance to listen in on other trainings, which included some techniques for creating a recruitment culture - where chapters can reach out to new members and draw them in - face-to-face networking. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. I feel really inspired!

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with data enthusiasts while also reinforcing foundational data visualization skills, Back to Viz Basics (B2VB)—a Tableau Community Project—is the perfect place to start. Participants learn, practice, and apply their data skills across a variety of topics, products, and causes.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with data enthusiasts while also reinforcing foundational data visualization skills, Back to Viz Basics (B2VB)—a Tableau Community Project—is the perfect place to start. Participants learn, practice, and apply their data skills across a variety of topics, products, and causes.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with data enthusiasts while also reinforcing foundational data visualization skills, Back to Viz Basics (B2VB)—a Tableau Community Project—is the perfect place to start. Participants learn, practice, and apply their data skills across a variety of topics, products, and causes.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Since Tableau's first release in 2004, all visualizations created inside Worksheets have been rendered using VizQL , a breakthrough technology that allows you to create a chart with a simple drag-and-drop. Shipping sankey chart by Tristan Guillevin. Say hello to complex charts, as easy as drag and drop. What are Viz Extensions?

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Tableau

AUGUST 14, 2024

Data Skills Program Manager, Tableau We’ve all been there: You’re talking with a friend, watching the news, or sitting in a meeting and the conversation turns to data. If I was trying to figure out what was causing a problem, I’d use the 5 whys technique developed by Toyota Motors founder Sakichi Toyoda.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Collage of Tableau Public visualizations ( The Tableau Chart Catalog by Kevin Flerlage, The Tableau Chart Builder by Jeff Plattner, and It Started With A Viz | VOTD by Autumn Battani) and the Tableau Public homepage. Create custom maps, charts, and graphs in clicks. Taha Ebrahimi. Director, Tableau Public. Ateken Abla.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Collage of Tableau Public visualizations ( The Tableau Chart Catalog by Kevin Flerlage, The Tableau Chart Builder by Jeff Plattner, and It Started With A Viz | VOTD by Autumn Battani) and the Tableau Public homepage. Create custom maps, charts, and graphs in clicks. Taha Ebrahimi. Director, Tableau Public. Ateken Abla.

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