Are nonprofits slow movers when it comes to technology? By many counts, they’ve made better use of social media than any sector – but it’s certainly true that nonprofits tend to be time-crunched and cash-strapped. That means that mission comes first. Other pursuits, like cracking the 500 page instruction manual on the latest visualization software, [...]

Check out the Nonprofit Data Scorecard here.
The spark that drove our hunt for up-to-date nonprofit data was a desire to tell the story of that community’s ride through the economic recession. In the journalism world, the craft of storytelling is starting to meet the rapidly growing world of data flow – but the effectiveness of [...]

Remember Google’s Fusion Tables? Well, here’s its complement.
While Fusion Tables is a useful and flexible platform for viewing, manipulating, and sharing data in table form, it’s a little limited in its visualization capabilities (see an earlier post on Fusion, here). With charts, graphs, and just two species of map (location and intensity), the options for [...]