{"id":20328,"date":"2024-02-02T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takenoquarter.com\/?p=20328"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:33:20","slug":"introducing-data-commons-a-new-way-for-nonprofits-to-use-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takenoquarter.com\/introducing-data-commons-a-new-way-for-nonprofits-to-use-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Data Commons, a New Way for Nonprofits to Use Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Access to reliable, usable data can transform the way you do your work. It can inform how you allocate your resources, help you track and report your impact to your community, and provide essential data to incorporate into funding applications.<\/p>\n

A great deal of important data is publicly available, but from a complex maze of unconnected sources, each requiring significant effort to understand and use. In addition, studies have shown that data scientists spend up to 80 percent of their time on basic data cleaning, merging, and management tasks. If you’re like many of the small nonprofits that we serve, you probably don’t have the time or expertise for this level of effort.<\/p>\n

To address this challenge, Google has launched the Public Data Commons<\/a>. This project brings together and connects data from a variety of government and non-governmental organizations. The goal is to make this public data accessible and useful to people who are working to improve the world in areas such as health, economic development, and climate change.<\/p>\n

Through a natural language interface, nontechnical users can pose queries such as these: <\/p>\n