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Feel the Heat: Great Tools for Mapping Website Interactions

Byte Technology

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to gauge and chart your user’s behaviors while they’re on your WordPress website? Essentially, the tools and programs for creating a heat-map build an “overlay” of your various site’s pages, and areas that attract more activity appear “hotter” than sections that experience low activity.

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Beyond the Pie Chart: Maps

Tech Soup

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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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. Community Map. Why : Why map your community? Content Map.

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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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The Only Time You Should Use a Pie Chart for Your Nonprofit's Data

Tech Soup

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. We finish the series by explaining the only time a pie chart actually is the right choice. When to Use a Pie Chart. As we state in our white paper, Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? Overlay pies on maps.

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Explore funding for U.S. democracy with our free data tool

Candid

The website is a publicly available, interactive resource that showcases how funding flows for U.S. Democracy website is a great resource to help you get started. democracy-related issues from 2011 onward.

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10 Important Features of Tableau

fusionSpan

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. Customization allows you to add new phone layouts, interactive offline previews, and more. Availability of Maps. The map is yet another key aspect of Tableau.

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