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New Event: Empowering Non-Profits with AI Hackathon
How might AI support grantwriting for small non-profits? We'll be planning a tool to support Girls on the Run expand its capacity....
director0907
Jan 17, 20241 min read
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Book Review: Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
Making Numbers Count is a book that addresses an important topic, communicating numbers in ways that the average person can understand.
Doug Caldwell
Sep 19, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Data Visualization Handbook,by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén
Data Visualization Handbook (2019), by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén, two Finnish academic authors, is a refreshing and welcome addition
Doug Caldwell
May 14, 20237 min read
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Book Review: Storytelling with You: Plan, Create, and Deliver a Stellar Presentation, by Cole Nussba
Knaflic deconstructs presentations into three easy-to-remember phases: Plan, Create, and Deliver. She covers the complete presentation proce
Doug Caldwell
Jan 20, 20236 min read
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Book Review: How to Lie with Maps, by Mark Monmonier
Not only is it easy to lie with maps. It’s essential. To portray meaningful relationships for a complex, three-dimensional world on a...
Doug Caldwell
Nov 4, 20225 min read
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Virtual GIS workshops
The UVA Scholars’ Lab is offering a series of workshops this spring with a focus on ArcGIS Online (AGOL). These weekly workshops will run...
abigail3162
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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Book Review: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo
Instead of just looking at charts, as if they were mere illustrations, we must learn to read them and interpret them correctly. Alberto...
Doug Caldwell
Jan 24, 20225 min read
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Book Review: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff
If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows...
Doug Caldwell
Nov 24, 20214 min read
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Book Review: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford
Good statistics are like a telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or an X-ray for a radiologist. If we are...
Doug Caldwell
Sep 13, 20214 min read
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Welcoming Our Work-Study Team Member: Julia Eskew
We are pleased to welcome Julia Eskew to the team as our Program Assistant. Julia is a 4th year Global Studies major at UVA with a...
Abigail Cox
Sep 1, 20211 min read
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Welcoming Susan Farmer as Programs Coordinator
We are pleased to welcome Susan Farmer as CCI's Programs Coordinator! Susan has worked in academia, government, and the nonprofit sectors...
Abigail Cox
Aug 19, 20211 min read
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What the Charlottesville Action Network Map means to CCI
The Center for Civic Innovation was founded on the idea that collaboration within the community leads to success with tackling complex...
Donavon Lea
Aug 16, 20212 min read
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Housing Data Project
We recently released a final report, prepared by Allen Lang and Frances Astorian, from a Housing Data Project analyzing the change in...
Abigail Cox
Aug 12, 20212 min read
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Seeking Fellowship Coaches
Our 2021 fellowship cohort will begin working together next month, and we’re seeking coaches to amplify the success of the program. The...
Abigail Cox
Jul 26, 20211 min read
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Join our team! Now hiring a Program Coordinator
Apply to fill the role of Program Coordinator by 7/31/21
Abigail Cox
Jul 15, 20212 min read
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Morning, Noon and Night: Persistent Brainstorming Leads to Greater Creative Performance
Whether you’re a prospective fellow or an employee at an innovative company, developing solutions to complex problems is essential
Graham Twente
Jun 21, 20212 min read
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Book Review: Visualizing with Text, by Richard Brath
Visualizing with Text (2020), by Richard Brath (Partner at Uncharted Software, Inc.) is an intriguing addition to the data visualization...
Doug Caldwell
Jun 10, 20215 min read
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Welcoming CCI's Interns
We’re excited to introduce three interns who have begun working with us. We welcome Donavon Lea, Graham Twente, and Selena Pham as they join
Abigail Cox
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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Mentor Teams: Amplifying the Impact of Your Civic Project
Applications for our 2021 Civic Innovation Fellowship, running from August through December, are now open. To intentionally foster civic...
Abigail Cox
Apr 26, 20211 min read
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Book Review: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the...
Doug Caldwell
Apr 20, 20215 min read
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