Digital technologies have fundamentally transformed the entire health care ecosystem. Surgeon-controlled robots perform surgeries from other cities, Electronic Medical Records store our health histories, and we use the internet to seek information about everything from the side-effects of medications to how our physician is rated by other patients. In the U.S. alone, it's estimated that 35% of adults have gone online to get information about a medical condition, and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps. READ MORE
Affinity Bridge's Mack Hardy presented at Net Tuesday Vancouver's February 2013 event about using maps to visualize data. Mack talked about maps and putting large amounts of data onto web-based maps, how to get more information onto maps, and some other ways we can dynamically visualize data using opensource javascript libraries like http://d3js.org/ and http://raphaeljs.com/READ MORE
As reports are finalized from companies within the nonprofit technology, financial, HR, and job trends segments, much speculation is encircling the sector as analysts and organizations make their predictions for the remainder of the year. With many factors stirring conversations like a recovering economy, the recently passed fiscal cliff, and President Obama's second term, there's much projection about what this year has in store for NPOs. Based on recent research, this is what we can expect to see over the next 11 months. READ MORE
This post was written by Ritu Sharma, co-founder and executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. It was originally posted on TechSoup.org in October, 2012 by Becky Wiegand.
This week features some telling views on the use of big data for development as well as some perspective how how the social sector can better use data for social benefit. Also highlighted are controversial views on the future need for data scientists and Nominet Trust's Data Unity visualisation project is announced. READ MORE
Want to help people find the closest organic produce? Interested in making it easier for people to conserve energy? Can you improve online donations? How about making math more fun for kids? READ MORE
Phil Bost did a great job of summarizing the January NCTech4Good meeting, "Data Mapping with Google and Wordpress," (and promoting NCTech4Good) at http://durhamhoods.com/nctech4good/READ MORE
This week features some telling views on the use of big data for development as well as some perspective how how the social sector can better use data for social benefit. Also highlighted are controversial views on the future need for data scientists and Nominet Trust's Data Unity visualisation project is announced. 
