Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt Nonprofit Fundraising

Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt Nonprofit FundraisingThe premise of this post: humans want to make better and faster decisions. AI offers a way, but I don’t believe that marketing automation should replace an empathetic human, nor that there should be marketing “traps”. Unlike a typical blog post, I list some of my ideas and some existing […]

How to Create Automated Analysis Using R?

Have you found yourself repeating the same analysis for different groups in your data? And have you wondered about a better way of doing so in R? I have this problem often. RMarkdown, knitr, and RStudio make generating such automated reports very easy. You need two things: A parent file for data prep, loading libraries […]

Do know Shake Shack’s locations outside of the US? You’d be surprised

Madison Shake I had heard that the lines to get some food at Shake Shack are long. So when I saw a new location opening in downtown LA, I wondered how many locations does it have and how fast are they spreading across the US. The answers surprised me. Using R and previous code, I […]

A man went to buy waffles. He got pies instead. A Study of Waffle Chart vs. Dot Plot vs. Pie Charts

Parts-to-Whole Charts Creating good charts is difficult. Parts-to-whole charts are even more difficult to create, not technically, but to generate a higher level of efficacy. The most common parts-to-whole chart, in which you show different proportions of a measure, is a pie chart. So much so that a hotel advertised its meeting rooms with this […]

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Good

Artificial Intelligence can learn and tell jokes:Credit: Janelle Shane, http://aiweirdness.com/And in its free time, AI helps businesses increase revenue and customers.Applications of AI and machine learning in the for-profit world are our signals to what’s about to happen in the non-profit world. If you haven’t seen the current applications in the business world, I recommend […]