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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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Interview With Nikki Roda: Re-Orienting The “Deep Dive” on Data Visualization

User Experience professional, Nikki Roda, brings a perspective built for our times, fueled by her varied experience and a data…

Placing Data Visualization In A Larger Frame

Imagine driving behind a paving machine [left], watching the road being laid, then following shortly behind on still-warm asphalt.  At…

Three Visualization Tips That Will Make Your Audience Thank You

To speak of “information infrastructure” is also to speak of the many habits that make up good practice. In that…

A Trip To The Woodshed (Or, “The Nitty Gritty of Data Visualization”)

There are no pictures or visualizations here. Well, just the one here to the left – of a woodshed. I…

Markets For Good Interview: Dino Citraro, Periscopic

Markets for Good caught up with Dino Citraro, Head of Strategic Design and Operations at Periscopic. We wanted to explore…

“Ask The Experts” with Greta Knutzen: Data Visualization in the Social Sector

We present, in this first of a series of video interviews a tour of some of the sharpest work going…

Getting Started: A 3-Step Approach To Data Visualization

Lauren-Glenn Davitian, recipient of the NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award: “As nonprofit organizations increase their focus on results and measurements, data…

Data Visualization: On Making It Plain

“…the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or…

Jody Madala On Healthcare and Data Silos

Healthcare data is a perennial topic of interest, if only for the polemics that accompany healthcare policy. Surrounding the discussion…

Minnesota: A Case Study In Large-Scale Data Collection and Impact

Each year the Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCF) describes state philanthropy trends in its Giving in Minnesota research report. To…