On Think Tanks TV: International Rescue Committee – Sparking Organisational Innovation
Can innovation science support think tanks research? Ravi Gurumuthy from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) thinks so.
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Can innovation science support think tanks research? Ravi Gurumuthy from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) thinks so.
In this episode, we speak with Bethany Marron of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) on malnutrition research in South Sudan.
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In this post, Jeff Knezovich explains how to create interactive dashboards with Tableau Public. It is part of a series of posts on How to develop Data Visualisations for think tanks
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In this how to, we use data that we already collected from Import.io and import it into Google FusionTables in order to create a map of that information. We use an example of mapping...