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    How Development Seed Mapped a Non-Profit's Donors, Recipients

    If you maintain a database of the work your organization does, then you need to be able to learn from that information and communicate about your data effectively. Data visualizations do this quickly and efficiently. Development Seed, which helps organizations use data to explain complex issues and make better decisions, recently worked with A Wider Circle, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit that collects furniture and household goods and distributes them to families transitioning out of shelters or otherwise in need, to map its operations. A Wider Circle uses a database to monitor its work, tracking how many beds, dressers, desks, tables,...

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    I guess that combining the fixed rules for audio, video, image and text will be significant, as are the "open" intuitive based rules that the user contributes.

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