Microsoft Research has released SandDance, a free data visualization app that lets you gain insight in your surveys and research projects.

Data is a powerful tool, but only when collected, saved, stored, and utilized properly. Whether that’s donor data being entered into your CRM or ERP system, or properly managing sorting, and and filing important files for easy access. Data is how our nonprofits run in the the 21st century ...

  The amount of data being created each year is staggering. By 2015 the global annual rate of data production exceeded 5.6 zettabytes; that's double the rate of growth in 2012, according to  IDC. Data alone, however, hardly gives executives and board members access to the valuable insights that ...

In this guest blog post, Amadie Hart (http://www.hartstrategicmarketing.com/) takes an in-depth look at the difference between "data visualization" and "infographics", and includes a few good examples of tools to help you create both.

I'm in Maryland this week for the Legal Service Corporations's invitational Summit on Technology and Access to Justice. I'm excited -- it should be a great discussion on the ways that existing and emerging technologies can help legal aid organizations provide more access to information and support.