How nonprofits can harness actionable insights from donor data — Charitable giving is at an all-time high. According to a report from the Independent Sector last fall, Americans donated $471B in 2020 (a 3.8% increase from 2019). With 75% of millennials and 66% of Gen Z sending some form of financial aid or donating to a nonprofit since the start…

How a logistic regression model can optimize the Dunder Mifflin sales team — Episode 1: Setting the Stage “Business is a doggy dog world. And I am a shark, who eats doggy dogs.” -Michael Scott Lessons of business and life seem to emanate from the walls of a mid-sized paper-supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Juggling office romances, navigating mergers, and wondering what Creed actually does every day are…

Using clustering algorithms to segment Steven Spielberg films — Scene 1: Setting the Stage for Cinematic Clustering “Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve directed.” – Steven Spielberg With a career spanning nearly six decades; filmmaker Steven Spielberg burst onto the scene with Jaws, making 1975 the “summer of the shark” according to Time Magazine. Since then, he’s built a legacy…

A Breakdown of the Tour de France Using Foundational Data Analysis — Stage 1: Introduction Every summer, the world’s top cyclists gather in France for a grueling race across the country. And in just a few days, the 2021 Tour de France will begin in the tiny port city of Brest and end, as it always does, in Paris a few weeks later. Given the…