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What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias

The Verge

The program generating these images is an algorithm called PULSE , which uses a technique known as upscaling to process visual data. Here is my wife @shan_ness pic.twitter.com/EehsSHW6se — Robert Osazuwa Ness (@osazuwa) June 20, 2020. First, we need to know a little a bit about the technology being used here.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Is your organization leveraging this content asset further by using it as a continuous learning tool or marrying it to better understand your quantitative data?

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The importance of professional development in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

I was able to develop dynamic, innovative, and knowledgeable courses using e-learning tools such as Articulate, Camtasia, Microsoft Office, and worked with graphic artist to develop custom interactive multimedia instruction (IMI). Looking for nonprofit professional development opportunities?

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool. This can be put practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. Think of Professional Learning As A Gift To Yourself. It is harder to convince people who aren’t already social media users to use it in their personal lives.

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Meet the 14 companies launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

TechCrunch

Very Real Help is using some of the same techniques as gaming and other entertainment-based platforms to give users a space to manage mental health issues and connect with a community. Users can log on as anonymous avatars using their phones, computers or VR headsets to attend group sessions and learn tools for coping.

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Can Stories Be Data?

NTEN

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Outgrowing RFM Segmentation? How Machine Learning Can Help

Top Nonprofits

At Dataro , we specialize in machine learning tools for nonprofits, so we’re big believers in this technology’s ability to completely change how organizations think about and use their data. Machine learning systems analyze sets of data to identify complex patterns and “learn” how that data can be expected to perform in the future.