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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? was difficult.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

They built a public API and released a public data set. This partnership meets a community need to apply an intersectional lens to data analysis and enables funders and nonprofits to gain insight into disparities masked by aggregated data. It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies.

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APIs for Nonprofits 101: How to Share Data Between Systems

Tech Soup

APIs to the Rescue. The good news is, there is a widely-available technology available to help bridge the gaps: the Application Programming Interface, or API. An API allows you to interact with and “hook into” any piece of software that makes such an interface available. Using APIs for Political Advocacy.

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Export Your Universal Analytics Data Before It’s Too Late

Forum One

By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Export data using Google Analytics Dev Tools: Query Explorer (API) Google Analytics operates on a query-based framework, allowing users to use Core Reporting APIs to extract data from a Google Analytics view and generate customized results.

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Making meaning of Candid’s free demographic data set 

Candid

As of October 2023 when this analysis was conducted, the total number of all responding organizations was 59,749. Topics include opportunities (and challenges) around longitudinal analysis and joining the demographic data with other commonly used data sets.

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5 Tips for Effective Healthcare Grantmaking

sgEngage

Connect with others though open APIs. Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. Once you have that outlined, see where you can connect your systems through APIs to pull data in and across platforms. Augment your reporting with data analysis.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. Appetite to invest in shared solutions and infrastructure.

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