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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? Get Tableau now.

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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. Part 4 in our Beyond the Pie Chart series covers mapping. white papers. When to Use Maps.

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Beyond the Pie Chart: What Scatter Plots Can Do for You

Tech Soup

Part 3 in our Beyond the Pie Chart series digs into the wonderful world of scatter plots. These tips from Tableau's Visual Analysis Best Practices and Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? white papers show what a scatter plot can do for you. Free Data Visualization Webinar for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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Nonprofits and Libraries: It's Time to Move Beyond the Pie Chart

Tech Soup

We know nonprofits and libraries gather piles of data, from program outcomes to constituent data to fundraising or advocacy campaign results. That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart. Why Data Visualization Matters for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

NTEN

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. Your white papers and position statements are likely chock full of data-tables and simple graphs that support their theses. Make it portable.

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