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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

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Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. What better way than in Excel. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

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After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

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I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

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Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

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Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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What You Need to Know About Windows 10 in 2016

Tech Soup

offers a similarly measured approach from a business perspective of whether or not to upgrade. How-To-Geek's How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC is a step-by-step written tutorial on upgrading from a previous version of Windows. Training is another comprehensive video tutorial on how to use the primary new features of Windows 10.

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Is Twitter for Old Folks? And other gems from TWTRCON

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Twitter is all about community - up with the ppl, down with the numbers game :) @ danschawbel RESOURCE: Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube [link]. JonBurg a twitter community is measured by the value delivered to the total of it's members. . @ uberbabyboomer #TWTRCON sez @ shelisrael & I say, Yes!

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