Welcome to aea365! Please take a moment to review our new community guidelines. Learn More.

Search Results for: tableau

DVR TIG Week: Tableau’s Map Functionality for Enhancing Dashboards by Billi Shaner

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 17, 2020

I’m Billi Shaner, Senior M&E Advisor at InformEd International and Co-President of the AEA Local Affiliate in Seattle. At InformEd, we provide evaluation services to international development clients, focusing in the areas of education, health, and livelihoods. For some time, I’ve been intrigued by the potential of Tableau’s platform to encourage our clients to interact …

DVR TIG Week: Tableau’s Map Functionality for Enhancing Dashboards by Billi Shaner Read More »

Craig Wiles on Using Tableau for Data Exploration

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / May 21, 2012

Hi, I’m Craig Wiles, Senior Consultant at Public Sector Consultants in Lansing, Michigan. I provide research and evaluation services for clients in health and human services, education and the environment. I am sharing a tip on how to use Tableau as part of a data exploration process with a group of stakeholders. To begin, I …

Craig Wiles on Using Tableau for Data Exploration Read More »

DVR Week: Julie Lo on Presenting Survey Data Interactively Using Tableau

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 25, 2012

My name is Julie Lo and I’m a research assistant at Public Profit.  We help youth service agencies and educational organizations manage what matters.  I want to share with you a way of presenting survey data through an embedded interactive interface created using the program Tableau Desktop and later shared online using Tableau Public. We process …

DVR Week: Julie Lo on Presenting Survey Data Interactively Using Tableau Read More »

Susan Kistler on Tableau and Users Groups

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 2, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. I’m striving to improve my capacity to use Tableau, a data exploration and visualization tool. I’ve read the manual, watched their video tutorials, will be attending training, and have spent time working with the product on my own. However, …

Susan Kistler on Tableau and Users Groups Read More »

Nina Potter on Tableau for Data Visualization

2 Comments / Mixed Methods Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 27, 2010

My name is Nina Potter and I am currently the Director of Assessment for the College of Education at San Diego State University. I’d like to share a little about a tool we are using for data visualization. One of my responsibilities is to work with program directors and department chairs to evaluate academic programs …

Nina Potter on Tableau for Data Visualization Read More »

Urban Institute Week: Updating the Urban Institute Data Visualization Style Guide and Why You Should Build One Too by Jonathan Schwabish

Leave a Comment / Urban Institute / November 1, 2024

My name is Jonathan Schwabish, and I’m a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, where I help colleagues improve how they visually communicate their work through better data visualizations and presentations. The Urban Institute data visualization team will soon publish an updated data visualization style guide. Though the first official Urban Institute Data Visualization Style …

Urban Institute Week: Updating the Urban Institute Data Visualization Style Guide and Why You Should Build One Too by Jonathan Schwabish Read More »

More Essential Excel Skills Every Evaluator Should Know by Elizabeth DiLuzio

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 26, 2024

Greetings, AEA365 community! My name is Liz DiLuzio. When I’m not curating the blog, I can be found teaching anything from one-day workshops to semester-long courses on tons of topics related to data analysis.

My friends over at GBEN, AEA’s affiliate group in the Boston area, recently reminded me of a post I wrote in 2023 about the top Excel skills every evaluator should know. Upon rereading, I was amazed to see how much my Excel practice has developed in a little over one year. If my student had asked me today what topics I thought she should know, here’s what I would tell her:

Making Data Accessible to All Using Data Warehousing and BI Tools by Taj Carson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 24, 2023

I’m Taj Carson, founder and CEO of Inciter (formerly Carson Research Consulting). In the early days of conducting evaluations, I realized I was inadvertently gatekeeping a valuable asset by collecting and storing data in a way that only I could get to. Over time, I heard from many organizations that they wanted more – more access to their data, and more ?exibility to use their data to construct stories for a wider range of audiences. Although the standard, PDF format reports often take up the bulk of an evaluation budget, I don’t believe they provide the bulk of the value. For instance, clients may wish to explore evaluation data sets to inform programmatic decision-making, re?ect on progress, and share feedback with constituents long after the funder receives their report. Too often the resources spent on study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting did not usefully live on after the reporting stage.

AHE TIG Week: Saving Time through Data Dashboards by Matt Feldmann and Tom Withee

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / October 22, 2023

Hello, we are Matt Feldmann and Tom Withee with Goshen Education Consulting. Matt Feldmann is the principal researcher and firm director at Goshen Education Consulting and manages the information technology for the AHE TIG. Tom Withee is a senior researcher at Goshen Education Consulting and is the chair elect for the STEM TIG. It is our belief that creating interactive data dashboards are not only an effective means for communicating with your clients, but they create huge time savings. For our discussion, we will reference a University Climate Survey data dashboard from our client Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (which can be retrieved from this link). 

Tech TIG Week: Supporting Data Analytics with Google BigQuery by Wai Lam Wong

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 27, 2023

Hi everyone, my name is Wai Lam Wong and I’m an information systems analyst at a community health organization in California. My academic background is in computational social sciences and I’m always looking for ways to leverage technology for social impact. This post is about using Google BigQuery to enable a small nonprofit’s project team …

Tech TIG Week: Supporting Data Analytics with Google BigQuery by Wai Lam Wong Read More »