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10 Reads for Your 2021 List

We made a list of notable books (and a few articles) from 2020 that will inform and inspire you and your organization this year.

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30 Data Visualization Tools

Today we would like to share with you a simple but highly effective list of data visualization tools for your…

A Lesson In Data From Football

Data has invaded sport. You’ve seen it from Moneyball to football (both “footballs”). But, you’ve probably not heard the player’s…

Our Shared Future

‘The idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your…

Skoll World Forum: Not Short On Ambition

Last week marked the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Enterprise, in Oxford, England. A global event that brings together…

Peer Benchmarking For Better Decisions And Higher Performance

CoopMetrics joins the conversation, making a clear case for collaborative data approaches and zeroing in on the value of benchmarking…

We’re Not No.1! We’re Not No.1!

Those of you who follow Markets For Good on Twitter will have been enjoying our updates from The Skoll World…

Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data

‘Big data is suddenly everywhere’ – we all know it, it’s why we read this very site. Be it as…

The Lean Startup Goes To Washington

‘More and more, the government sector is working to improve the quality of information—or evidence—it is using to formulate decisions…

Technology Giants Team Up To Modernise Old-School Databases

In what can only be described as a huge step in storing and analysing data, Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn…

Connecting the Unconnected

If only 1 in 3 people have access to the Internet, as a global social community, what do we need…