
David Kane
@kanedr
Data Scientist @360Giving & Freelance. Picture is a homemade Dalek. Mostly talk about charities, data and charity data. @[email protected]
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http://dkane.net 22-01-2009 08:55:03
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London #smallbutvital charities (under £1m) - Have you done something with data? Made a decision, planned a service, adapted to a need, told a Local Authority what's happening locally. Me and Superhighways need examples to share with funders. Email [email protected]

Excited to find out that Random Charity has tweeted over 50,000 random UK charities in its sporadic 7-year existence. Roughly 1/4ish of the whole sector.


Last week we (Open Innovations ) started a fantastic project with Joseph Rowntree Foundation to start building the Data Infrastructure for Insight on Poverty across North England - open-innovations.org/blog/2023-05-1… This is for Everyone ✊


Postcodes in Polygon: an #opendata tool from Datadaptive. Draw a shape on a map, get a list of postcodes. datadaptive.com/pip/ (Great Britain only) Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (May 2023).


To start Small Charity Week, read @JonDeanStuff's blog about six things you need to know about small charities. He links to important research on small charity impact, fundraising, brand, fraud, efficiency and data: vssn.org.uk/2023/06/19/6-t… Small Charity Week #smallcharityweek

Want to use grants data more effectively?📊 Join us in-person for Data in a Day, where we'll take you through every stage of data analysis; from planning goals to presenting results. 📅Wed 8 November, find out more and book below threesixtygiving.org/data-in-a-day/ #DataSkills #Grantmakers




Thanks to mySociety we now have a final, complete UK hex file for the new constituencies with all official area codes, electorate data and have published as csv, geojson, gpkg, shp for anyone to use Files: automaticknowledge.org/wpc-hex/ Web map: automaticknowledge.org/betahex/#6/54.…



Interesting & very positive news: Department for Culture, Media and Sport is next year going to pay for a booster sample to the Community Life Survey so that it can produce "meaningful estimates at the local authority Level". Fingers crossed, this includes the questions on #volunteering gov.uk/government/pub…


