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6 Tips For Creating Better Charts With Your Nonprofit’s Data

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Beth’s blog shares Ann Emry’s tips for creating charts with your nonprofit’s data. Charts can turn plain text into a visually, expressive piece of information, which is great for persuading donors to donate or showing your supporters your organization’s impact. Chart diversity. Visual communication.

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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. What better way than in Excel. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart.

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Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But being a nonprofit data is not just about being an Excel ninja, it is also about visualizing data and being a chart master. When Ann told me she has lots of secrets and time saving tips for charts and offered to write this guest post, I was thrilled. Charts can be one of your strongest communication tools. Secret #10.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Best of Tableau Web: August 2021

Tableau

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. Rosario and Donna provided detailed tutorials on the real-world data storytelling challenges we face as analysts.

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Best of the Tableau Web: February 2021

Tableau

Luke Stanke, Circular Bar Charts: Why you should make them but never share them. Luke Stanke’s post, “ Circular Bar Charts: Why you should make them but never share them ,” explains the challenge. Pierre Hansquine, Bar Charts: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Jeffrey Shaffer, Data + Science : Four Quadrant Charts in Tableau.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts.

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