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Data quality vs. data quantity: let’s end the debate!

3rd Sector Labs

When it comes to nonprofit data, especially donor data, there’s a running debate. Which is more important, data quality or quantity? Put quality first, especially donor data quality. We have discussed the problem of data hoarding in the past. Donor data quality must come first. Why quality first?

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How to Start Your Data Analytics Journey

Association Analytics

The team at Association Analytics often hears questions like, What exactly is data analytics? Analytics are typically more concerned with why your business has performed this way, what will happen in the future, and what actions you can take to influence the results. Collect Your Data Even If Its Not Perfect.

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What megadonors miss about health-focused nonprofits 

Candid

Experienced health-focused nonprofits can shift strategies to attract those megadonors, their dollars, and their influence. Strategic, data-driven storytelling can create lasting emotional connections and visibility beyond traditional philanthropy. That shift starts with increasing the visibility of those organizations.

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Which Team Should Own Data Quality?

Towards Data Science

We examine which team structures are the best suited for efficiently improving data quality. Sure, data quality is everyones’ problem. Some organizations will attempt to diffuse the responsibility widely across data stewards, data owners, data engineering and governance committees, each owning a fraction of the data value chain.

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Advancing Racial Equity Through Data and Transparency

sgEngage

The first iteration tracks disclosure of 22 data points across six specific dimensions of racial equity: (1) Pay Equity, (2) Racial/Ethnic Diversity Data, (3) Education and Training Programs, (4) Response to Mass Incarceration, (5) Community Investments, and (6) Anti-Discrimination Policies.

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New social investment platform Follow taps influencers to mirror their investment strategies

TechCrunch

If you’d like to invest the same way that fintech influencers, including Austin Hankwitz , WOLF Financial , Breyanna Nava and Patrick Meng do, Follow can help you do that. I was watching the way my kids interact with the world, particularly social media and influencers,” Field said. “It

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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