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Conference Circuit: National Black Nurses Association

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Following preconference sessions on Monday, NBNA 2017 will officially start on Tuesday morning with an opening plenary called “Building a Culture of Health.” NBNA will host a book drive to benefit the local charity Spread the Word Nevada, which provides books to at-risk students. Also on the meeting agenda: Book smarts.

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No Girl Left Behind: Girl Scouts Expand Presence at CES

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Girls from the Girl Scouts of Northern California and Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada demonstrated the new website at this year’s CES. By 2017, GSUSA hopes to evolve to a fully integrated e- and m-commerce Digital Cookie platform, according to Sheila Narayanan, chief digital girl experience executive. “In Digital Cookie 2.0

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Report: The Story Machine Learning Tells About Nonprofits

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The firm used topic modeling, a type of machine learning, to analyze 2017 tax filings from 353,000 nonprofits secured from the IRS and managed using Amazon Web Services. Recently, the data analytics firm Civis teamed with the magazine Fast Company to dive into data about nonprofits in 15 different topic areas.

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