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.
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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 https://t.co/ARhjFuMaut
"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
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
"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
"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
"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
Our latest newsletter is out! Check it out for:
๐ An intro to our newest team member - Heidi
๐ Information on all our upcoming events - courses, webinars and workshops
๐ A writeup of our Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop on statistics
https://t.co/fWIdlfIx3f
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
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
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
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
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 https://t.co/fz9qE6wLdx
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... ๐ญ๐ก https://t.co/zaNoNSEk5r