Data Orchard

As a values driven social enterprise we care about our impact, the ethical and environmental implications of our tools, and who benefits in profits and power. RIP X account🪦👻, find us over on 🦋: Bluesky bsky.app/profile/dataor… LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/data-o…

"Expert Insight: How women are shaping the future of responsible AI" - an interesting article about women in tech and data, particularly in ethical use of AI buff.ly/4fHy525

"First aid for figures" - HelenaJamborWrites collated a host of resources to help with #dataviz : 1. Choosing a chart 2. Text 3. Layouts 4. Colors buff.ly/3AwqzIq

"Mapping time: The surprising overlaps of history’s most influential minds" - This is fun and sometimes surprising! buff.ly/3TZTCL3

This article is based on the findings that individuals are using GenAI a lot at work and finding it useful but those benefits are not being seen at an organisational level. @emollick suggests some tactics to combat this. buff.ly/3Yj0SUZ

"Coal has now died in its birthplace: the UK closes its last coal power station" - @_HannahRitchie looks at the history of coal power (and its "relatively quick" transition) in charts buff.ly/4gNok3M

"Inspiring the Next Generation Through Playground Data | National Statistical" - this is a nice project, getting children interested in and collecting data buff.ly/3Y40dGO

"Local. Left behind. Prey to populist politics? What the data tells us about the 2024 UK rioters" - The Guardian uses data to try and understand the rioters buff.ly/3Uf2w7J

Our latest newsletter is out! Check it out for: 🍏 An intro to our newest team member - Heidi 🍏 Information on all our upcoming events - courses, webinars and workshops 🍏 A writeup of our Nonprofit Datafolk Club workshop on statistics buff.ly/3XHcdMQ

andresvourakis/data-scientist-handbook: This is a repo with links to everything you'd ever want to learn about data science - this could be a handy resource for anyone wanting to learn more data science buff.ly/4eMs18f

PythonistR: A Match Made in Data Heaven - a nice tutorial on how you can use BOTH Python and R in your workflows buff.ly/3MLvuYH

On theme from our last Nonprofit Datafolk Club, this article goes deep into dashboard design - 'Mastering Dashboard Design: From Good to Unmissable Data Visualizations' buff.ly/3XAVCvj

How Are Hit Songs Rediscovered Decades Later? A Statistical Analysis buff.ly/4daSUS3

The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It) - a piece about the privilege needed to escape AI systems buff.ly/46WfA6M

"How to Vectorize Plots from R in PowerPoint" - this may be useful for anyone straddling the worlds of R and Microsoft buff.ly/4eaQxzj

The Pudding got AI to write a data-driven, visual story - to see if they are replaceable buff.ly/3MrIe6q

Are Gen Zs and millennials happy with their pay? - This research is based on a survey of 1,000 people by market research firm Kantar (looks to be US based). It appears that the older people surveyed were less comfortable discussing their salaries.. buff.ly/3Z7wmOs

The UK government announced a new project that will "will bring teachers and tech companies together to develop and use trustworthy AI tools that can help mark homework and save teachers time" - it will be interesting to see what comes out of this buff.ly/476CPeo

If getting to grips with the data needs of one organisation is a challenge, then how about doing so for a whole city-region? Read about our work with @10GMpartners, a fantastic organisation supporting the needs of the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester buff.ly/4d9PizN

Three cohorts of progressive leaders from a wide range of organisations have now completed our Data for Nonprofit Leaders course. We've been looking at their feedback to see how they found it... 💭💡 buff.ly/4bUXNOi