Data Orchard
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We are an award-winning social enterprise with a mission to enable every nonprofit organisation to use data effectively to achieve their goals.
Joined January 2015
As a values driven social enterprise we care about our impact, the ethical and environmental implications of our tools, and who benefits in profits and power. RIP X account🪦👻, find us over on 🦋: Bluesky https://t.co/WTl3lWrx2x LinkedIn
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"Expert Insight: How women are shaping the future of responsible AI" - an interesting article about women in tech and data, particularly in ethical use of AI
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"First aid for figures" - HelenaJamborWrites collated a host of resources to help with #dataviz : 1. Choosing a chart 2. Text 3. Layouts 4. Colors https://t.co/v2qQ0XCLK3
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"Mapping time: The surprising overlaps of history’s most influential minds" - This is fun and sometimes surprising! https://t.co/ydfsNu21DE
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This article is based on the findings that individuals are using GenAI a lot at work and finding it useful but those benefits are not being seen at an organisational level. @emollick suggests some tactics to combat this. https://t.co/UDmfpSXUer
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"Coal has now died in its birthplace: the UK closes its last coal power station" - @_HannahRitchie looks at the history of coal power (and its "relatively quick" transition) in charts https://t.co/Gw3B1lImDd
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"Inspiring the Next Generation Through Playground Data | National Statistical" - this is a nice project, getting children interested in and collecting data https://t.co/gxzgweUei1
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"Local. Left behind. Prey to populist politics? What the data tells us about the 2024 UK rioters" - The Guardian uses data to try and understand the rioters https://t.co/pWM9xOWwiV
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Our latest newsletter is out! Check it out for: 🍏 An intro to our newest team member - Heidi 🍏 Information on all our upcoming events - courses, webinars and workshops 🍏 A writeup of our Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop on statistics https://t.co/fWIdlfIx3f
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andresvourakis/data-scientist-handbook: This is a repo with links to everything you'd ever want to learn about data science - this could be a handy resource for anyone wanting to learn more data science https://t.co/lFCqQSbqAO
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PythonistR: A Match Made in Data Heaven - a nice tutorial on how you can use BOTH Python and R in your workflows https://t.co/NXJQTqMRSF
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On theme from our last Nonprofit Datafolk Club, this article goes deep into dashboard design - 'Mastering Dashboard Design: From Good to Unmissable Data Visualizations' https://t.co/hkofCtC20S
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The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It) - a piece about the privilege needed to escape AI systems https://t.co/U5W1UwLox2
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"How to Vectorize Plots from R in PowerPoint" - this may be useful for anyone straddling the worlds of R and Microsoft https://t.co/i9KKCK2XPr
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The Pudding got AI to write a data-driven, visual story - to see if they are replaceable https://t.co/mkevF36rzq
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Are Gen Zs and millennials happy with their pay? - This research is based on a survey of 1,000 people by market research firm Kantar (looks to be US based). It appears that the older people surveyed were less comfortable discussing their salaries.. https://t.co/xwv08AAB1v
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The UK government announced a new project that will "will bring teachers and tech companies together to develop and use trustworthy AI tools that can help mark homework and save teachers time" - it will be interesting to see what comes out of this https://t.co/AAYOvKmtlE
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If getting to grips with the data needs of one organisation is a challenge, then how about doing so for a whole city-region? Read about our work with @10GMpartners, a fantastic organisation supporting the needs of the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester
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Three cohorts of progressive leaders from a wide range of organisations have now completed our Data for Nonprofit Leaders course. We've been looking at their feedback to see how they found it... 💭💡
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