Revisiting geography as a major gift indicator
From time to time on the Prospect-DMM list-serve, and on insightful blogs like CoolData, there is some debate about whether there is much value in geographically aggregated data when it … Continue reading
Introducing: rcrunchbase
In case you were intrigued by the last couple of posts about mining CrunchBase, I wanted to make you aware that the development has progressed quite a bit and you can … Continue reading
The cost of premature aggregation
Here is a common situation: a client calls, asking to know the average giving for the year for any prospect in her unit’s portfolio. As an analyst, I want to … Continue reading
Mining CrunchBase, part II
In part one, we created some basic functions that handle the nuts and bolts of interacting with the CrunchBase API — authorization, sending GET requests, parsing the response data, and … Continue reading
Mining CrunchBase, part I
My colleague asked me this week if we could quickly discover Cal alums listed in CrunchBase. I spent some time clicking around on the site, and reading the documentation for … Continue reading
Some teamwork, a map
My colleague, a prospect researcher, had queried our database to pull a list of several thousand suitable technology related alumni in response to a request from one of her clients. … Continue reading
How do you do documentation?
This post includes a PDF that I couldn’t embed but that I would love for you to take a look at: Capacity Model Among the many things about my job that … Continue reading
Correct link for the SF map
In my previous post I gave an incorrect link for the interactive San Francisco map. The post has since been fixed, the correct link is: http://tarakshah.org/demos/sfmap.html
Making it interactive
(update: 7/31/2013 — I noticed I had the wrong link posted for the San Francisco map. It’s been fixed now, sorry!) This post is a quick but (I think) exciting … Continue reading
Visualizing the campaign
At UC Berkeley we’re coming up on the end of a campaign. A few months ago, I was asked to do some analysis to see if we were on track … Continue reading
