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May 8, 2024
The Nonprofit Case for Data Warehouses
In the digital age, data is the lifeblood of every organization, including nonprofits. Yet, many find themselves grappling with dispersed data sources stored across various systems, hindering their ability to harness insights effectively. This is where the concept of a data warehouse steps in...
What is a Data Warehouse and is it the right option for your organization?
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April 18, 2024
Sustaining Data Governance: The Crucial Role of Tools and Technology
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March 15, 2024
Tools and Technology in the Execute and Build Phase
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February 16, 2024
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May 4, 2020
Data Cleaning in Excel 101, Part 3: How to Combine Columns in Excel
Having the right data in the right columns to meet specific requirements for your analysis plays a major role in the data cleaning process. In Parts 2, 3, and 4 of our Data Cleaning in Excel series, well show you how to solve common issues by utilizing both standard and Excels powerful Flash Fill shortcut. Part 2 focuses on splitting data from one cell to multiple cells. Here, in Part 3, well cover the opposite: combining data from multiple columns into one column.
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April 28, 2020
What's Better, Faster, and Cheaper than a New Data System?
We need a new data system. The stuff of dreams and nightmares. Whether you arent storing the right data in your system, or you cant get what you want out of it, you either have considered a new data system, or you were in the process of implementing one. So you got everyone on board, figured out what you needed out of a data system, did an inventory of your current systems, lined up the funding, and then coronavirus.
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April 21, 2020
Data Cleaning in Excel 101, Part 2: How to Split Columns in Excel.
Having the right data in the right columns to meet specific requirements for your analysis plays a major role in the data cleaning process. Over the next 3 parts in our Data Cleaning in Excel series, well show you how to solve common issues by utilizing both standard and Excels powerful Flash Fill shortcut. Part 2 focuses on splitting data from one cell to multiple cells. Part 3 covers the opposite: combining data from multiple columns into one column.
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April 14, 2020
Data Cleaning in Excel 101, Part 1: How to Delete Empty Rows in Excel!
At Inciter, we use many tools to clean data. Google Sheets and Excel are widely available and powerful tools for basic data cleaning of small to medium data sets. In this series, we will describe different methods for cleaning data that have common problems such as blank rows, duplicates, multiple values in one column, data split into too many columns, leading zeroes, numbers that dont act like numbers, basic data recoding, and comparing two versions of a spreadsheet.
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April 14, 2020
Four Ways to Further Your Data Analysis Right Now
At the risk of adding more peer pressure to be productive right now, I wanted to propose to those of you responsible for the data maturity of your organization (this includes CTOs, CIOs, database managers, data analysts, and other data nerds) that there ARE things you can do right now, in the middle of all this, that will make your organization stronger when its all over. You might be feeling like you cant possibly move forward with anything data-related, because of the uncertainty ahead.
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March 24, 2020
How to Feel Better. Just a Little.
Ive always been fascinated with neuroscience and how our brains work. Mine, especially. So last year, because I apparently cant stop going back to school, I got a certificate in brain-based coaching from the Neuroleadership Institute. What I learned there about how our brains work got me thinking about how they are responding to the current situation with COVID-19. I thought it might be helpful to share some reasons why you may be feeling the way you are (aside from the obvious) and present just a few things you could do to help your brain calm down, and to help you and everyone around you feel a bit better while getting through this pandemic.
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February 19, 2020
When Is Building a Form the Wrong Answer?
One of our core values here at Inciter is Get it Done. When our clients email us, we email them back. When they have a problem, whether its a messy data set or help thinking through their data strategy, we show up. So when a client that is using our data system asked me the other day to build a form for them, my first thought was, Youve got it!.
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February 3, 2020
Data Maturity Part II: How Grown Up Are You?
Data Maturity Stages In Part I of this blog series, I introduced the concept of data maturity, its importance to organizations, and steps for becoming data mature. Today, well tackle the ways in which organizations can be thought of as existing in different stages of data maturity and how you may move through them. Particularly relative to reporting, knowing where you are on the data maturity scale will help you identify the right approach and the right tools to move forward.
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January 9, 2020
Data Maturity Part I
I was introduced to the term data maturity by Karen Graham, Maddie Grant, and Jenn Taylor at their 2019 GoodTech Fest presentation. (If you dont know about GoodTech Fest, check out my blog post on it here and consider going in 2020! Its a great, reality-based conference about measuring what matters in the nonprofit sector.) Ive been thinking a lot about this idea of data maturity, and how we can help organizations build capacity to provide data for themselves and to funders.
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Most nonprofits spend days putting together reports for board meetings and funders. The Inciter team brings together data from many sources to create easy and effortless reports. Our clients go from spending days on their reports, to just minutes.