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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Dr. Patrick Ball, who has led our Human Rights Program since 2003, now heads HRDAG as its Executive Director and Dr. The process took us longer than we anticipated, but that is due in large part to the great things we’ve been able to achieve from the collaboration between the technology and the analytical sides of our work.

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JUNE 19, 2014

I was in tears writing the words above, which is pretty rare as a die-hard analytic geek engineer. Perhaps we both wondered if there would be a next time. Happy birthday, Calypso. We already miss you. And Calypso was aware of that.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

and I’ll switch from my statistician hat to my non-profit hat for that one – the human rights team is looking forward to supplying some of our own data and recruiting analytical assistance. The next Data Dive will be held here in San Francisco on Nov. 4-6 (tomorrow!),

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

We've just put Google Analytics on the site, and are playing with it. Miradi (the new name of what we used to call the e-Adaptive Management software) has been in beta test for a while and we've gotten great feedback from all over the world from environmental practitioners. So, feel free to visit and check it out.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

On February 1st, two people on the team spun out to become an independent nonprofit—the Human Rights Data Analysis Group —to focus on the statistical and analytical side of our human rights work. Our flagship Martus software project marks its tenth anniversary of bringing strong crypto to human rights activists.

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MAY 10, 2006

It's rare to find writings that immediately speak to your experiences, but from a more thoughtful and analytical viewpoint. Quite often, we bumble about trying to find the best way to make things happen. It often explains why certain initiatives failed and others succeeded. I had that kind of "aha!"

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APRIL 20, 2007

Actually, I felt like I had been listening pretty closely, and was hoping for a more analytical or reasoned response. I got up and asked the question about the middle ground where most of the audience was playing: not traditional business or charity, but social mission ventures with lots of earned income.

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