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Beyond the Pie Chart: Maps

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Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?

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When configured correctly, Tableau dashboards can support your fundraising team members through greater self-service access to reports and data analysis, distributing the understanding of your key metrics across the organization far more efficiently. .

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10 Important Features of Tableau

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The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. Availability of Maps. The map is yet another key aspect of Tableau. As a result, Tableau’s maps are extremely comprehensive and insightful. The Ask Data Tool. Conclusion.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities. For datamaking, visuals like charts, diagrams, or maps are important for more than data collection.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. Create a heat-map to show them where they live, or a series of charts to breakdown their values.

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Putting Your Twitter Followers on the Map, Literally

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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