Understanding your data is the key to almost any kind of fundraising. While we
talked about VC fundraising in a previous post
[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-tool-raise-vc-round-justin-zhen/], we want
to explore some other forms of fundraising. In this post we’ll talk about
charitable fundraising. We will use KgBase to create a graph of donors,
projects, and donations in order to understand which donors are right for
certain projects.
We begin by importing our donor list, their donations,
“Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or
something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is
acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or
learning.” - Wikipedia
“Knowledge” is a human-centric term as intelligent beings are inherently capable
of understanding and interpreting facts and the relationship between them. The
accumulation of this knowledge gained over time makes us able to establish new
inferences and relat
We live in an age of data. Companies of all sizes are generating more data than
ever, and figuring out how to mine it for valuable business insights has become
big business. But even advanced data analytics tools only reveal some of those
insights, and few are capable of representing that data visually in a way anyone
can understand.
Collecting the data is the easy part, but gaining a real understanding of how
these various data sets are connected is trickier. Being able to make those
connect