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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns. An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images.

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

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Then we used a random number generator to select which of those records would be pulled into our nonprofit mission statement studies’ sample. . The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the statistical software R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements.

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Bursting at the seams: Candid’s largest nonprofit compensation report yet  

Candid

Candid’s team also added 21 new metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) to the report this year to allow for greater geographic comparisons. This allowed us to produce the most complete analysis of fiscal year 2021 and illuminate the continued impact that 2020 had on the sector.

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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. Note: This is an excerpt from our free e-book, The Noble Arsonist.

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Using Data to Make Annual Giving Work for You

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Tip: Using the Giving Analysis for Appeals report in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a great first step to analyzing your historical data. When over-segmentation occurs, it often leads to small sample sizes within each segment, which makes it harder to get statistically significant results and draw reliable conclusions.

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Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Publishes Account of Landmark Guatemalan Human Rights Case

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guzmán’s article, entitled Speaking Stats to Justice: Expert Testimony in a Guatemalan Human Rights Trial Based on Statistical Sampling , appears in the most recent issue of CHANCE, a quarterly journal published by the American Statistical Association. His family never stopped looking for him.

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Key takeaways from Candid’s 2021 Nonprofit Compensation Report

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It is the only large-scale analysis of its kind based entirely on data reported to the IRS and continues to be the most comprehensive nonprofit compensation study available. . The full report looks at compensation on the state and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level broken out by budget size. . View a sample report . [1]

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