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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

7: Your Taxonomy Isn’t Organized In a Useful Way Challenge : Digital closets are a lot like physical closets. Whatever the case, if your organization doesn’t keep your taxonomy tidy, you’ll spend more time querying and comparing reports than finding the data you need the first time. Focus on what matters to operational outcomes (ex.

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Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies

The Verge

Google is walking back plans to replace third-party cookies with FLoC by instead proposing the Topics API, a new system for interest-based advertising. Google will share more details on that plan and “measurement technical proposals” later this week. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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AI at Candid: Powering technology to support the sector’s lasting success

Candid

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Generating first drafts of grant proposals. Here’s a sneak peek into what awaits.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The data is organized by a revised taxonomy, initially developed in 2013 with support from the Knight Foundation, which now includes five main subjects: Media Content and Platforms (previously known as Media Platforms). It can also save you from jumping down the rabbit of hole of writing a proposal to a funder that is not a good fit.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithmic advances

Google Research AI blog

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs. closures, incidents).

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. The proposed call agenda is here. January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call.

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