How to sell capacity investments to nonprofits

August 27, 2009

As a wonky new Austinite I was delighted to discover the blog Keep Austin Wonky, and even more pleased to read this post about nonprofit capacity building. The author Julio Gonzalez Altamirano cites this entry from another cool Austin blog, Social Velocity, where the author Nell Edgington writes “I met with a nonprofit Development Director [...]

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Four ways that writing Head First has blown my mind

August 19, 2009

If you’re at all familiar with Head First books, you probably know that they’re written differently from most books that aspire to help you learn a new skill. Brett McLaughlin, Brian Sawyer, and Andrew Stellman have all recently weighed in on what exactly makes Head First writing different. As I wrote Head First Data Analysis over the [...]

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Here comes Head First Data Analysis

July 14, 2009

Data analysis is hot: every day we read about people doing complex and illuminating things with their data. It’s an exciting, dynamic time to be a professional analyst, and even people with backgrounds in statistics, engineering, or computer science have to work hard keep up with the trends in data. But how does someone without [...]

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