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What is the best online mapping software you’d recommend to a colleague? It’s a question I get asked a lot by data journalists, governments and nonprofits alike, and have sometimes struggled to [...]

If you’re a nonprofit who works with Tableau, we’d like to recommend investing a small amount of your time learning to use Tableau Web Data Connectors. (As always, this is not a paid endorsement [...]

Now that you’ve made it through your data literacy education with Datassist, and have seen how essential data is to making decisions, you’re ready for tools to refine your approach and to start [...]

This week I’m attending the three-day Canadian Visual Analytics School (CANVAS).  CANVAS 2015 is the fourth annual summer school on data and visual analytics, and scientific visualization. [...]

At Datassist, our goal is to provide real world answers to unique data-based questions, and to turn data into pictures and stories people talk about. We maintain that poor research and [...]