Tableau Software : Pearl Jam’s Home Shows partners with Seattle community to tackle homelessness with data

This past week, the band announced the results of this initiative and published an interactive visualization on Tableau Public that tells the story of how their community has come together.

The viz shows a couple of different engagement metrics, including an overview of the $10.8m funds raised. Some donors chose to contribute to the Home Shows Fund grant pool, while others like Nordstrom and the Raikes Foundation made pledges alongside the band and its fans. That group includes the Tableau Foundation, which made a $50,000 contribution to the fund, along with $1m grant in software and services to help local nonprofits leverage data to make a difference for those in need.

The viz also explores the recipient organizations of the full funding pool, allowing viewers to filter along four different types of homelessness interventions:

• Diversion
• Housing
• Outreach, engagement, and support
• Systems change/ system capacity building

More than $1.3 million will be distributed by The Home Shows to nonprofits selected by Pearl Jam with guidance from a 19-member Advisory Group of service providers, issue experts and funders. Those funds will be targeted to two areas: Diversion, a strategy used to get people back into housing faster, and Youth Homelessness to help young people avoid becoming homeless in the first place.

Additionally, the vizzes take a look at the excitement on Twitter through the #thehomeshows hashtag. Fans can find themselves in the constellation of more than 12,500 tweets that reached as many as 132 million people with news about the Home Shows campaign.