Most nonprofits say "we need a dashboard" without realizing that word means wildly different things - from simple BI tools to full platforms with AI features. The real first question isn't about tools at all. It's: What decisions will you make differently once you can see this data? I've watched organizations spend weeks exploring popular solutions, trying to retrofit their needs, only to realize they needed something else entirely. Starting with your use case - not with a tool - saves time, budget, and frustration.

The real question isn’t “What can we automate?”
Nonprofits are being told to adopt AI or fall behind, but the real concern isn’t technology, it’s people. The work of housing, feeding, educating, and caring for communities cannot be reduced to a tool choice. The question that should guide every AI decision is this: If this is wrong, what breaks? Some mistakes are fixable; others erode trust, disrupt services, and cost people their jobs. That line isn’t technical, it’s ethical, and discernment is the strength nonprofits already have.

Most analytics vendors build for enterprise budgets, then wonder why nonprofits struggle with adoption. At Daly Analytics, we take a different approach: open-source tools that solve real problems while demonstrating what's possible when data infrastructure & data science tools are built specifically for mission-driven work.

Join me for my talk: ‘Me, Myself, & Claude’ on AI-Assisted R Development and lessons from my consulting practice at the Inaugural R+AI Conference virtually on November 12, 2025 🎉

Mission-driven organizations deserve the same enterprise-quality interactive dashboards as Fortune 500 companies, but built with strategic and pragmatic architecture that respects their unique constraints and enables long-term sustainability.

From brewery brick reveals to charity bike rides, this month has been all about community connections. I'm sharing updates on my custom brick at a local brewery, CT Challenge fundraising ride, and the exciting conservation analytics project I'm mentoring. Plus, there are still free hex stickers up for grabs!

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the release of AviList— the first unified global bird taxonomy. Today, I'm excited to share that this groundbreaking dataset is now available to R users through the avilistr package on CRAN.

Discover why Excel workbooks become technical debt and when it's time to migrate to professional R Shiny dashboards. Part 1 of our complete migration guide for growing organizations looking to eliminate manual, error-prone processes.

Onboarding to a big Shiny project? {shinyfa} is a new R package that gives developers a quick map of complex Shiny app directories—extracting reactive elements, render functions, and input bindings into a tidy summary. Whether you're consulting, joining a team, or cleaning up legacy code, {shinyfa} helps you navigate faster and smarter.

In this post, we walk through how nonprofits can dramatically expand their social impact by embracing interactive data storytelling. Learn why tools like R Shiny, thoughtful user design, and a little empathy can help your data tell the story it was meant to — and how even small organizations can start today.

At ShinyConf 2025, I had the joy of speaking to an audience of nearly 800 about what it means to design user-centric Shiny apps through thoughtful client conversations, intentional UI/UX strategy, and Gherkin-style user stories. In this post, I’m sharing a few takeaways from that warmly received session, along with free, customizable templates to help you bring a more human-centered approach to your own data products.

I’m excited to share that my open source R packages, {shinyLP} and {ttbbeer}, have officially hit 100,000 combined downloads!

Join Beni and I as we present on The CRAN Cookbook, and share our top tips for R package development with the R Govys Meetup group on January 30, 2025, at 3 PM Eastern.

As 2025 approaches, I’ve been reflecting on my first year as a data science consultant. It’s been an exciting journey filled with growth, challenges, and opportunities.

Jasmine Daly and Beni Altmann are presenting a talk on The CRAN Cookbook: Improving the Skills of R Package Maintainers at the LatinR Conference. This conference features talks and tutorials about the use of R in R&D across various domains to virtual audiences on November 18-22, 2024.

Jasmine Daly is joining the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board to help further their mission by empowering user and developer communities by coordinating training and outreach activities.

We’re committed to helping our clients stay ahead of the curve by adopting the latest tools and technologies. Whether you’re looking to scale up your applications, create custom reports, improve your user experience, or explore AI integrations, we’re here to help in 2025 and beyond.

Incorporating strategic color design into Shiny app development is more than just an aesthetic choice; it’s an essential component of creating a cohesive, functional, and engaging user experience.

At Daly Analytics, we lead all our client projects with a core intention that our work serves a greater purpose to empower others so that they can perform their job regardless of their technical background.

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm part of an experienced project team that was awarded a Special Project Grant from the R Consortium. I will be leading efforts on improving the skillset of R package maintainers through the development of new technical documentation.