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Data Skills Survey
We want to understand the current data skills among youth, and use the survey as a tool to connect youth to freelance/employment opportunities.
Visualising the geographical network of the first 150 cases of COVID-19 in South Africa
Using SNA to depict the travel hubs of the first 150 cases in South Africa. An example of SNA’s use in improving community tracing.
Choosing the best software to develop dashboards
This blog is a review of three data visualisation software to help me and YOU choose between three dashboard tools: Tableau, Power BI and Google Studio.
Visualising Sustainable Development Goals Data
Author: Tania Mazonde Data visualisation has played a vital role in how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been presented. With the mass of data collated for the SDG indicators, the creative attempts are impressive. Since the adoption of the SDGs in 2015,...
How can Social Network Analysis be used in evaluation?
Social Network Analysis is an innovative approach to measuring and visualizing changes in network-based interventions. It's also quite beautiful! Our MD, Jerusha Govender, presented this introductory webinar as part of the SAMEA webinar series. Check it out:...
Why data communication is a ‘future skill’ that you need to build today
We are currently living in the “fourth industrial revolution”. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), it’s defined as the digital revolution in that there is an interaction of the physical, digital and the biological spheres.[1] Some of the implications of...
MERLTech Take-aways
Check out Jerusha’s Vlog on her top 5 take-aways from MERLTech 2017, including where to find volunteer Data Scientists, and who’s been using Blockchain in M&E.
Data Artistry – the science, art & fun in data viz
When you first look at the image below, what do you see? A duck? A rabbit maybe? Or neither? Source [1] Now ask the person next to you. Was their response different? What you see first could easily differ from what might stand out for someone else. This is because...
Dashboards – Getting Started
In the organizational development space dashboard has become a recent buzz word. Every organization wants one ─ needs one ─ to monitor their key activities, to make decisions and to demonstrate progress. However developing a dashboard, selecting the key elements to monitor, and determining how to visualize them is often a challenging process.
Engaging with the Evidence Experts at the Evidence 2016 Conference
There is a gaping space in evidence informed decision-making (EIDM) in the not-for-profit sector, government and other social development organizations. Many organizations focus on use of data for accountability and do not take a systems thinking approach to learn and...
Thinking outside the data box
Organisational learning is a process of detecting and correcting error and is a component of adaptive capacity and organisational effectiveness (Letts et al, 1999; Arygris, 1977). This process is also known as adaptive coping, which includes the “ability to detect...