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...]
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Does Your Nonprofit Need (free) Help from A Data Scientist?
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...]
Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session
I was honored to be invited to cover this year's Global Philanthropy Forum, a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. The annual conference helps inform, enable and enhance the strategic nature of their work. This year's conference, "The Future We Make" had four themes - strategic philanthropy, modern day slavery, agriculture and nutrition, and education, learning, and employment. I went to cover one session, "Building An Information Infrastructure: … [Read more...]
Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd
Note from Beth: I made a personal goal for myself to get past my dislike of spreadsheets and become more fluent. First I had to "Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet" and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Why get good at Excel? Even if you are using a paid tool measure your results, knowing how to use a spreadsheet well will be invaluable to your measurement program. While writing the "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," and now teaching workshops on … [Read more...]
Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact
Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking … [Read more...]
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