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.  I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets, but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data.  What better way than in Excel.    I got into a wonderful conversation with Stephanie Evergreen, another nonprofit datanerd who loves spreadsheets who offered to write up this guest … [Read more...]

[slideshare id=20052210&doc=making-datavis-survival-guide-130426191415-phpapp01] As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I'm facilitating a peer learning group based on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. This part of the measurement process is most the fun because it covers visualization, pattern recognition, and reflection.    I wanted to take a deeper dive into resources out … [Read more...]

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats.  It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists,  working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world.   They are displayed here using new data visualization tool called Google Fusion Tables technology.  I discovered while browsing through the gallery wondering if any of this … [Read more...]

[slideshare id=19958007&doc=rwjf-sm-re-meeting-beth-kanter-slides-130425083953-phpapp01] Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called "Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations."     The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as … [Read more...]

In the sequel movie  Crocodile Dundee 2, there is a great line when Mick Dundee visits the US and two guys try to rob him at knife point.    He pulls out his outback knife, which is three times larger and says,  "Now, that's a knife!"     When Alison Carlman, unmarketing manager for Global Giving, shared her social media measurement spreadsheet during a peer learning session I'm facilitating for Packard Foundation grantees based on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,"  I couldn't  help but … [Read more...]