New at marketsforgood.org:
Jake Porway, founder and executive director of DataKind, uses his piece, The Trials and Tribulations of Data Visualization for Good, to explain that "data visualization without rigorous analysis is at best just rhetoric and, at worst, incredibly harmful." Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D. examines the new social calculus and how Crisis Text Line provides a textbook example of using data for good in regards to the new social calculus. Lauren Shaughnessy, director of measurement and learning at Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, shares examples and ideas based on her experience working with data in the nonprofit sector.