philanthropy.blogspot.com
PHILANTHROPY 2173: May 2015
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The future of good. A FastCompany Magazine "Best Blog". A Huffington Post "Philanthropy Game Changer". The MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. Has a new series on data volunteering. Check out their first post here. Over at the Digital Civil Society Lab. And our outputs on Monday are intended to inform work in the field and get tested and improved in time for a DataKind. Summit in New York City in the Fall. And then Tuesday brings the SSIR Data on Purpose. And Microsoft's Civic Tech team. For 100 year...
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DataLook | Blog
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The Definitive Guide to Do Data Science for Good. By Tobias Pfaff 8 min read. You are a fully-equipped (or aspiring) data scientist and want to use your precious skills for solving problems that really itch the world? Getting started online data science competitions. A good place to start (without even having to leave your couch! Are online data science competitions. These competitions allow you to sharpen your skills and to get familiar with different problem types before you get actually involved.
drewdepriest.com
Data for Social Good: Meet Little Giraffe | Meet Drew DePriest | Business Strategist | Marketing Professor | Engineer | Geek
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Http:/ www.twitter.com/drewdepriest. Http:/ www.linkedin.com/in/drewdepriest. Http:/ www.youtube.com/user/tiffarew. Https:/ plus.google.com/108987285294790343672. Data for Social Good: Meet Little Giraffe. Visualizing Metrics for Divvy Usage, 2015 Edition. Data for Social Good: Meet Little Giraffe. Tableau Foundation selected my viz as a winner! I was invited to present my viz on the main stage at the Do Good Data Conference:. Speaking on stage at Do Good Data 2015, sponsored by the Tableau Foundation.
roxjohnson.com
I made a little zine adventure about building skills for data analysis
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I made a little zine adventure about building skills for data analysis. Apr 25, 2016. Go right to the zine. Print it duplex, flipping on the long side, and then cut the pages in half horizontally. The pages should fold together in the correct order). I attended my first PyCon. I had the opportunity to go to a prototyping workshop ( notes are here. At Geo:Code 2.0. My solution is an interactive resource like an internet quiz that:. My vision is that the tool gives you a place to start and some help to map...
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CRITICAL DATA ANALYSIS
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This site is an avenue for me to share either data analysis techniques I find novel or interesting and/or ideas or thoughts from my undergrad background in continental philosophy and French / German literature. Sometimes I find these two areas of interest to overlap and other times I elect to dedicate a post to just one of my pursuits. I believe that everything is connected, and the 21st century will be about discovering these connections hopefully I can be a part of this. THE MOVE TO R. About researcher...
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APRA-IL - The Numbers Game: Do Good Data Conference 2015
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Neighboring APRA Chapters News. The Numbers Game: Do Good Data Conference 2015. Thu, May 14, 2015 9:58 AM. By Sabine Schuller, Sr. Research Specialist, The Rotary Foundation @s schuller. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Sherlock Holmes story. A Scandal in Bohemia (1891). Even though this quote is from more than 100 years ago, I think the attendees of the recent.
tableaujen.wordpress.com
IT + Tableau is #TableauJen – Page 2
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IT Tableau is #TableauJen. Seattle Tableau User Group. Experienced program manager with passion for marketing great products and supporting amazing teams through training, process adoption, and morale-building events. Interests include providing data to the people through reporting, writing, presenting, social media, and training. Follow me on Twitter. Follow IT Tableau is #TableauJen on WordPress.com. Make Over Monday – Week 30. It is week 30 of the #MakeoverMonday Tableau challenge. July 28, 2016.
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Why Nonprofits Need To Develop Their Own Data Capacity – The Impact Lab
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Why Nonprofits Need To Develop Their Own Data Capacity. 47; Impact Lab Blog Posts. 47; Why Nonprofits Need To Develop Their Own Data Capacity. Why Nonprofits Need To Develop Their Own Data Capacity. Posted August 4, 2015. In Impact Lab Blog Posts. We need more data talent in the nonprofit sector. Data has the power to revolutionize our organizations yet we lack the workforce to launch the revolution. So where should this workforce come from? So we need to develop this talent. We need to find ways of gett...
paintbynumbersblog.blogspot.com
Paint By Numbers: Fighting Ebola with Tableau
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Blog focusing on my experiments with data visualisation using Tableau Software. How To' and Opinions. Thursday, 16 July 2015. Fighting Ebola with Tableau. In October of last year Anya A’Hearn. Sent an email around to the rest of the Tableau Zen Masters to let us know about upcoming projects sponsored by the Tableau Foundation. Which had recently been set up. And a company called Dimagi. Contact tracing works more or less like this: After a patient is diagnosed with Ebola, the people who had been in conta...
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