How to find and visualize your Amazon order history data (Tutorial ...
May 15, 2017 · Cross-posted from Samhir Vasdev’s Medium channel. This tutorial accompanies the Amazon episode of our new series about liberating and visualizing our personal data. Check it out below: A snapshot of my Amazon order history reveals my heavier spending on Fridays. Full infographic here. I’m hooked on Amazon. And I’m sure I’m not alone. So this week, […]
What is Intrapreneurship? | TechChange | The Institute for …
Sep 30, 2013 · Learn more about intrapreneurship.. Join us with Ashoka Changemakers and other past, current, and aspiring intrapreneurs across the world that are sharing and learning the tools and techniques to innovate within their organizations for social change in T C108: Social Intrapreneurship – Innovation Within Institutions.The course begins February 24 – …
What You Need To Know About Knowledge Management
Jun 16, 2015 · Knowledge Management may sound intimidating, but you’d be surprised at how many of us are already following it’s principles every day at our organizations. Knowledge Management (KM) is about connecting different sectors and ideas by making sure that the right people, processes, and technology are in place to support knowledge exchange. Why …
online learning | TechChange | The Institute for Technology and …
Putting Learning into Practice Through Play. We use this game as a capstone learning activity in our digital health course, created and hosted by TechChange and supported by USAID, PATH/Digital Square, the WHO and others. Digital Health: Planning National Systems is an online course that teaches policy makers and practitioners the knowledge ...
Why Data Visualization Is Important - TechChange
May 19, 2015 · Data visualization turns numbers and letters into aesthetically pleasing visuals, making it easy to recognize patterns and find exceptions. We understand and retain information better when we can visualize our data. With our decreasing attention span (8 minutes), and because we are constantly exposed to information, it is crucial that we convey ...
Why Pedagogy Needs Diversity - TechChange
Sep 2, 2015 · Why Pedagogy Needs Diversity. Education is a powerful tool for diversity. From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, which tells narratives marginalized from most American history curricula, to using teach-ins as a form of education as activism, education plays an important role in building empathy and understanding that ...
Why Your Audience Matters in Data Visualization - TechChange
May 21, 2015 · Data visualization requires more than design skills. You need both technical and critical thinking skills to create the best visuals for your audience. It is important to match your visualization to your viewer’s information needs. You should always be asking yourself: “What are they looking for?” 1. Understand your audience before designing your visualization The […]
Conferences | TechChange | The Institute for Technology and …
They can be in-person, online and – increasingly – both. The TechChange team can support you from start to finish, no matter what format you’ve chosen for your event. From large hybrid conferences in Costa Rica to virtual summits that span every continent, and in-person gatherings in DC, the team of event professionals at TechChange has ...
6 Ways Technology is Helping to Fight Ebola - TechChange
Oct 8, 2014 · As Ebola continues to ravage Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, people from all around the world are working together to stop the disease. In addition to the life saving work of medical staff, logisticians and community organizers, information and communication technology (ICT) is also playing a vital part in supporting their work. Below are six examples showing how ICT is already making a ...
Why MOOCs Won’t Replace Educators in the Classroom
Aug 14, 2014 · Credit: Dead Poet’s Society (1989). But what comes next could also be an improvement. In the same way that the Google Classroom project opened to the public this week to help teachers manage student learning in and out of the classroom, so too can educators apply new tools to the needs of online students. As standards improve with the roll out of the Experience API, student data can even be ...