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Analysis: Pivot tables
I have been playing around with the pivot_table function in the Python package, pandas. The reason for this is because I was using groupby and wanted to see the difference in functionality and how it...
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The Forbes Nonprofit Council shares 5 ways to maximize your data insights
BWF’s 7th annual survey of the fundraising analytics community found that the role of data analytics in fundraising is evolving. Successful shops are investing in more sophisticated tools and...
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Socializing Data: Making Sure the Right Data is in Front of the Right Person
“Data socialization is a term that’s being heard more frequently, and it’s an attempt to tackle the ongoing (and often mission-critical) process of making sure the right data is in front of the right...
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Incorporating Analytics: Make Sure Your Bracket Doesn’t Bust Next Year
Incorporating Analytics: Make Sure Your Bracket Doesn’t Bust Next Year Each March life seems to stop for fans and non-fans to fill out brackets and watch basketball. Starting each Selection Sunday,...
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Data Analytics Implementation Across Industries
Many nonprofit fundraising shops have long since recognized the value and power of their own internal datasets. Good leaders know that evaluating and analyzing our data leads to important insights...
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Python: Deleting Files with a Specific Extension
Very few things in life come close to the satisfaction that I get when closing out a project and deleting old files. I have been working on automating the deletion of some of my files to be more...
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Formatting: Leading Zeros
How many times have you exported data and realized a little too late that the leading zeros in constituent IDs were no longer showing up? I know I have, and much to my chagrin I have had to re-send...
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From “Science Project” to Real Value
Forbes contributor Jason Bloomberg recently wrote about big data themes emerging from the Strata+Hadoop World conference, held at the end of September in New York. The conference bills itself as a...
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Tech Nonprofit Collaborates with Organizations to Maximize Impact
Here is a great read and podcast featuring Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, a nonprofit that connects nonprofits to technologists to solve problems. The article and podcast focuses on data...
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New Tricks Used to Follow Digital Footprint in Browsers
Chances are you know you’re being tracked online. Most of us are at the point where we’re not surprised when an ad for something we searched for on one site appears on the next site we visit. We know...
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