April 28, 2015
After a jam-packed schedule at The Skoll World Forum for Social Enterprise just over a week ago, we’re now lucky enough to be heading to Do Good Data 2015. It is the leading conference on data, research, and analytics for social sector professionals, not to mentioned being organized by...
April 27, 2015
As many of you know, we spent much of last week at the Skoll World Forum, enjoying remarkable speeches from the likes of Jeff Skoll, Jaqueline Novogratz, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and many more. Behind the scenes, we were able to conduct a private interview with the team behind The...
April 24, 2015
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable arm of former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is making a major investment in the development of data for cities, according to Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post. Their goal is to invest $42 million to create the What Works Cities Initiative, “aimed...
April 21, 2015
For today’s New Roundup we take a look at a data visualization TED talk, focused on the value of data and the format in which it is presented. Using a myriad of examples, Aaron Koblin demonstrates how data visualization can be used to tell a story. ...
For those of us who were able to attend the Skoll World Forum last week, there is much to be done in the way of reflection: what we learned, the wonderful people we met, and the possibilities of new business. For those unable to attend this year’s Forum, which...
April 17, 2015
This week the team from Markets For Good have been attending the Skoll World Forum, enjoying a host of sessions on best practice, new trends, and exciting innovations across the social enterprise space. One such data innovation that caught out eye comes from the Resilience Exchange, who practice what...
March 19, 2015
As many of you will you know, TED 2015: Truth or Dare is currently taking place in Vancouver, Canada. To mark this event, we thought it appropriate to cycle back through the years to one of our favorite TED talks, ‘The Beauty of Data Visualization‘ by David McCandless. ...
March 13, 2015
Kim Syman, Managing Partner at New Profit, feels it is “fair to say that data is among the most powerful, under-utilized, and incompletely understood forces in social problem solving.” However, in her latest piece in Fast Company she argues that the “complexity and dynamism of social problems and related...
February 27, 2015
The speculation is over! The White House has named DJ Patil its first ever ‘Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy.’ Jessi Hempel of Wired explains some of the reasons why Patil was appointed. Hempel believes that “there is arguably no one better suited to...
February 20, 2015
In PndBlog, Mitch Nauffts takes a look at ‘The Millennial Wheel of Disengagement,’ a new infographic from Virtuali. The infographic highlights the data behind millennials in the American workplace, with key insights and takeaways for the global economy. Nauffts notes “the fact that every day between now and...
