Data Visualization
Sounds like something you don’t want to do, right?
Wrong! Seeing data is pretty cool.
The Foundation Center last week launched "Philanthropy In/Sight", a data visualization platform designed for grantmakers or anyone seeking to understand the impact of philanthropy throughout the world.
I’ll let their release describe this impressive tool:
"With this new online tool, users can quickly create customized Google maps to explore giving patterns, emerging trends, and funding relationships globally, nationally, or at the community level. Updated weekly, the Center’s in-depth data on over 97,000 grantmakers and more than 1.6 million grants can be combined with dozens of demographic and socio-economic data overlays, resulting in "mashups" that vividly depict where foundation dollars are having the greatest effect or where funding is needed most …
The maps pinpoint the locations of grantmakers and grant recipients and offer a wide choice of filters and criteria. Users can open the "pins" for details about funders, recipients, and grants; display giving geographically by country, state, county, city, metro area, congressional district, or zip code; and choose from 26 fields of interest and 1,100 specialty areas."
PhilanthropyIn/Sight is available on a subscription basis, but you can take a guided tour here.
Well done Foundation Center … you deserve a raise!
Tom
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