Analytics in Action

Analytics for a Better World empowers mission-driven organisations worldwide with the capabilities of data science. We are here to help you achieve greater impact on your goals. We have observed that non-profits that prioritise data-driven innovations are four times more likely to achieve their goals, and investments in data systems yield an ROI of US$32.

We can…

• Accelerate your digital transformation. We kickstart your data strategy or advance it through our workshops and implementation services using applied data technology, from analytics to AI and optimisation.
• Perform data maturity quick scans to find out where your organisation is on the roadmap.
• Co-create and develop impact cases that directly add to the impact of your mission.
• Grow your analytics capabilities through our Accelerator, workshops for teams and our community events.
• Give you access to open-source and practical tools.
• Connect you to our global community of students, researchers and experts from the business world for useful insights and expert knowledge.
• Provide you with measurable results for your public and stakeholder reporting and boost positive PR.

We have already achieved meaningful, measurable impact through advanced analytics and the dedicated efforts of our team and community:

• The Ocean Cleanup: By implementing an optimised routing strategy, plastic collection increased by over 60% compared to the previous approach, significantly accelerating ocean cleanup efforts. As noted by the CEO, this solution could halve the timeline (from 10 to 5 years) and reduce costs from $7.5 billion to $4 billion.

• UN World Food Programme: Our optimisation efforts led to more than $150 million in savings—enough to feed two million food-insecure people for a full year. In Iraq alone, operational costs were reduced by 12% without compromising the nutritional value.

• Optimising Dike Heights: Our data-driven strategy for flood defence planning enabled approximately €7.8 billion in cost savings, while significantly improving protection in critical areas.

• WHO – COVID-19 Testing in Nepal: Simulations showed that better coordination of sample transfers could reduce delayed samples from 21.4% to 0%. Additionally, optimally placing 20 more labs could increase population coverage from 61.4% to 71.4%, especially benefiting underserved, lower-income areas.

• Amref – Mobile Health Clinics: By prioritising regions with limited healthcare access and high vaccination needs, we optimised clinic routing to improve reach and minimise operational costs.

Read more about our collaborative approach

These days, non-profits and social enterprises are solving complex problems in a system thinking approach. This means some of them need to pursue quality research to increase their understanding, improve their operations and programs, and advance their public policy and public awareness initiatives.

Through a network of PhD and Master students spread across Amsterdam Business School, MIT and other academic partners, we collaborate with non-profits in research specifically in using non-traditional data sources such as Satellite Imagery, Citizen-Generated Data, Texts and Images.

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Why reinvent the wheel every time?

We believe that there are already a lot of tools available out there, which with minimum customizations and understanding can already be used by non-profits to augment their capabilities. Sadly, these tools and the complementary use case implementations could be scattered across multiple platforms and repositories. Our goal is to curate these into a single searchable platform which is easy for non-profits to navigate, access, implement and scale within their organization. We offer you a curated list of tools that can be used by non-profits in implementing their Data and Digital Use Cases.

Visit the Repository