best practices for data visualization
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Data visualization is a hot topic, but how can you put it to its best use? What are some the creative and effective ways organizations use data visualizations, both internally and externally?TRANSCRIPT
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Putting Visualizations to Work
Jake GarciaGeographerThe Foundation CenterNew York, NY
NTEN WebinarJanuary 24, 2013
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The Foundation Center
Leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide
• Information on more than 106,000 global foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities
• Database of 4.1 million grants
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The Foundation Center
Aim to enhance grantmaker and nonprofit effectiveness through shared information and understanding
• Research reports and advisories on giving trends• Mapping tools• Custom, issue-based portals
- Economic crisis, U.S. education, funding after the Haiti earthquake
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Aggregated dataU.S. foundation assets increased across the board in 1997.
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Aggregated dataU.S. foundation assets decreased across the board in 2008
This is kinda compelling – but did it inform anyone, or help anybody make a decision?
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John Snow’s cholera map, London, 1854
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% change in stock prices,May 21 – June 14, 2012
APPLES&P 500
yahoo.finance.com
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Results for philanthropy
Fundraising
Building awareness
Advocacy
Internal decision-making
Enabling collaborations
Analysis
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Question
Fundraising
Building awareness
Advocacy
Internal decision-making
Enabling collaborations
Analysis
What do you, or would you, use visualizations for?
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It all starts with Open Data
In regard to U.S.-based philanthropy, our datasets originate from tax forms that foundations submit to the U.S. government.
The government, in turn, makes the completed forms available to the public.
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…but the data requires curation
Data extractionOccasionally requires optical character recognition (OCR)
Data coding • Internal subject taxonomy includes 1,100 codes.• Recipient type• Population codes• Location of recipients as well as location of projects
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This curation might require ~60,000 hours of labor* each year.
The Foundation Center employs over 120 people, around 30 of whom are exclusively dedicated to the gathering, cleaning, coding, entry, and analysis of data.
* this is a very rough estimate, based on a 2,000-hour work-year and assumes no fluctuation in job tasks and staffing levels
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Ideally, we’d have granular indicator data…(NYC census blocks, 2010)
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Demographic Analysis
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Demographic Analysis
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Internal decision-making, collaborations, analysis
Jake GarciaGeographerThe Foundation CenterNew York, NY
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2,809 foundation grants,$477.2 million(80% for Disaster Relief)
338 WB project locations,$326 million
(35% for Transportation)
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FC and World Bank dataNo Ag/Forestry project funding in Angola, 2001 to 2007
2003 2005 2007
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Foundation funding around the world
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Case studies
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Case studies
Q: Can we show the impact of all foundation-funded activity related to water, sanitation, and hygiene?
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Collaboration
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Collaboration
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Collaboration, decision-making
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Collaboration, decision-making
FC and OECD dataViewing funding details: Kenya
Grant records
OECD funding
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Financial benchmarking, decision-making
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Exploratory data analysis
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Exploratory data analysis
Which data set has a more completelisting of Chinese cities?
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Exploratory data analysis
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The meaning and message of the data is important, not just how awesome the visualization looks. *
-- is it accurate?
-- did it help sustain the author’s argument?
-- did it help you (or anyone else) make a decision?
* Although, it really helps if it looks awesome, too.
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Conclusions
In the process of attempting to assess the overall impact of foundation funding (still one of our long-term goals), we’ve begun to make progress in related areas:
•Helping create a more complete picture of philanthropic projects around the world. Mapping helps identify gaps and overlap in funding.
•Helping non-profits find foundations that might be interested in their work
•Enabling collaboration between donor institutions
•Inspiring better data standards, particularly the submission of better geographic and outcomes-related data from foundations, and participation in the IATI standard
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…back to John Snow
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Thanks! Questions?
Jake GarciaGeographerThe Foundation CenterNew York, NY