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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Data gives us context. How do I care for my data? That’s okay! Data Can Sustain and Support.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Map the data. I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.”

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# The data on these maps shows the number of responses as well as the direction of response, where orange = “data&# and blue = “friends&#.

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Zoetica Salon February Theme: Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are wondering about the chart, it came a cool free tool called “ Export.ly “ It will analyze your Twitter audience, Facebook page, and even your email box by grabbing the data and dumping it into a spreadsheet. My LinkedIn Network Map – a set on Flickr. I used it analyze the Facebook page.

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7 Social Media Toolsets for 2016 by @jeremycaplan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. Viz : Create simple charts and graphs. Before we dig into the content, let me point out why this so brilliant.

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Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

Forum One

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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