I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. After over three years, this is my last day as your ongoing Saturday author. I’ll be moving to once a month for at least the near future. The other Saturdays will be filled by Sheila Robinson, our intrepid aea365 curator, …
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Hello! My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights in sunny Los Angeles. I was thinking about all of the amazing resources and tools that help us create wonderful (and, more importantly, effective) graphs, charts, and data visualizations. I realized that somewhere along the line that old standby classic, the table, became the red-headed …
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Hi, I’m Sara Vaca and I am completing my Master in Evaluation in Madrid and you can learn more about me on my blog, Visual Brains or follow me on twitter at @VisualBrains. Inspired by this post, I thought about comics, and wondered, have you ever thought of using them in evaluation? Hot Tips: Comics …
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Hi, my name is Jennifer Bain, and I am an Evaluation Consultant. This post contains a couple of basic tips regarding data visualization I picked up and how to easily apply these tips to your Excel charts without spending a lot of time formatting individual charts. Lessons Learned: Formatting Visually Appealing Charts Since I work …
Hi, I am Miranda Yates, Director of Program Evaluation and Planning (PEP) at Good Shepherd Services (GSS), a youth and family development, multi-service agency in New York City. My PEP colleagues, Barbara Alcantara, Nora Casey, and Cathleen Mitchell, and I have developed a visually engaging report template that keeps staff focused on the key outputs …
Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. A few years ago, I discovered Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes video. I’d never seen anyone share data in a way that simply made so much sense. Since then, I’ve been hooked on dataviz. Thankfully, I’m not alone! As the demand for …
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Greetings fellow evaluators! My name is Johanna Morariu and I’m a Director of Innovation Network, a nonprofit consulting firm that builds the evaluation capacity of nonprofit organizations and foundations. I’m also the co-chair of the Data Visualization & Reporting (DVR) Topical Interest Group (TIG) along with Amy Germuth, Stuart Henderson, and David Shellard and the …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Today, we’re talking about VOPEs and a unique opportunity for global impact. Lesson Learned – VOPEs: What’s a VOPE? A VOPE is a Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation (VOPE). According to the freely downloadable Evaluation …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Rad Resource – American Evaluation Association’s LinkedIn Group: AEA’s LinkedIn group is open to members and nonmembers alike from around the world and currently welcomes over 11,000 colleagues to the community exchange. Lessons Learned – What is LinkedIn: At …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, I saw the new Star Trek movie (yes, my inner geek shines through once again). Part of its premise was that a team had been asleep for years, only to awake and wreak …
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