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Report: The Story Machine Learning Tells About Nonprofits

Associations Now

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. Youth character development groups were often very common in major cities, while New York City had a strong focus on cultural organizations.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.6.17

Reid All About it

However, “association IT decision makers believed that few members would fall into this category and instead thought the largest portion of members would fall into the ‘hesitator’ category” – “optimistic about technology in the abstract but somewhat scared to actually use new technology and therefore unlikely to be early adopters.”.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.6.17

Reid All About it

However, “association IT decision makers believed that few members would fall into this category and instead thought the largest portion of members would fall into the ‘hesitator’ category” – “optimistic about technology in the abstract but somewhat scared to actually use new technology and therefore unlikely to be early adopters.”.