Leading Through Data Resources:
Organizations and Initiatives
- DataKind
- Charting Impact
- Data Journalism
- National Center for Charitable Statistics Community Platform
- Code for America
- Kaggle
- Random Hacks of Kindness
- Periscopic
Tools, Examples and Methodologies
- RAND Getting to Outcomes Methodology
- Innovation Network Evaluation Plan Builder
- Tableau Software
- (Data Visualization) Gapminder (Visualization)
- Foundation Center In/Sight (Philanthropy Visualization)
- Visual.ly (Data Visualization / Infographics)
- Wordle (Word Clouds)
- Many Eyes
- Good Magazine Infographics
- ScraperWiki
| Author, Title and Organization | Title of Blog Post | Date |
Laura Callanan
| Want to “Lead Through Data?” First create a learning culture | April 18, 2012 |
Pamela Acosta Marquardt
| The Personal Side of Data | April 11, 2012 |
Dan Siroker
| Simplifying Monstrously Large Data | April 2, 2012 |
David Kroodsma
| Data Journalism | March 27, 2012 |
Jacqueline Quintanilla Aker
| Public Engagement Campaigns Grounded in Data Can Have an Impact | March 26, 2012 |
Sarah Hunter
| Promoting Success: Using Data to Inform Decision Making | March 21, 2012 |
Bernadette Sangalang, Ph.D.
| 5 Tips (and Lots of Tools) to Become an Evaluation-Savvy Nonprofit Leader | March 15, 2012 |
Tom Pollak
| Data that Empowers the Community | March 7, 2012 |
Brian Gallagher
| To Find Better Data, First Turn Outward Toward the Community | March 5, 2012 |
Leslie Payne
| Data Visualization | February 23, 2012 |
Jake Porway, Drew Conway, and Craig Barowsky
| Data for the Greater Good | February 17, 2012 |
Phil Buchanan
| Data Matters: Let’s Look Within To Find Our Exemplars | February 15, 2012 |
Gretchen Van der Veer, Ph.D.
| What it Means to be a "Data-Driven Organization" | February 9, 2012 |
