Empowering the Public Sector with Data Science

Nonprofit Trends Across the U.S.

Here at Civis, we’re curious, and we like numbers. Sometimes, just for fun, we’ll pull publicly available data and see what interesting macro trends we can find. At the end of 2018, we were looking at IRS 990 data (public information on nonprofit performance) and thought “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to share our findings with more people?” So we brought in our friends at Fast Company, shared the numbers, and let them take it from there.

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Building a Data Science Team: Putting the Right Pieces Together

For all the talk of automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the data science world today, curious and motivated people are still the most important component of a successful team. But building a team full of these bright people is much easier said than done. In this on-demand session, we’ll take a look at the composition of a best-in-class data science team, and help you understand how to build out the function in your organization.

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Fully Utilize Data to Give IIJA Funding Applications a Boost

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocates billions of dollars for state and local governments as they strive to close the digital divide. Though each state is promised at least $100 million, additional money will be distributed based on a complicated series of calculations and other information that applicants submit. Including all possible helpful data can give agencies a boost as they seek to unlock IIJA funding.

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Illustration of unvaccinated individual being glared at in a crowd

Memo to vaccine advocates: Stop trying to scare the unvaccinated. It doesn’t work.

The team at Civis has conducted a series of studies over the past year to gauge how members of the public respond to different types of messages encouraging them to…

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Building Data Science & Analytics Capabilities in the Public Sector

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