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DVR TIG Week: Taking the first step: creating a data visualization culture in our organization by Manon Billaud, Meredith Pinto, Emily Moore, Anika Hannan, and Whitney Rémy

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / May 11, 2022

Hi there! It’s Manon, Meredith, Emily, Anika and Whitney, and we are a group of Public Health Analysts, Evaluators, and Epidemiologists at RTI International – an independent, nonprofit research institute. We are passionate about creating engaging evaluation products, so we banded together as champions of data viz to improve how our organization shares project findings. …

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DVR TIG Week: A web-based interactive dashboard to improve access to and use of data in decision making by John Manda

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / May 11, 2022

Greetings fellow evaluators. I am excited to share my experiences and lessons learned in our effort to improve access to and use of data in decision making through the development and use of a web-based interactive dashboard.  My name is John Manda, and I am the Learning and Dissemination Advisor on the United States Agency …

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DVR TIG Week: Using a Geographical Map Chart in Evaluation by David Fetterman

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 3, 2022

Hi. I am David Fetterman, President of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consultation firm. I am a past-president of the American Evaluation Association and a co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. In addition, I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University as an administrator and faculty member. I am also the …

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DVR TIG Week: Digestive Aids for Large Numbers by Amelia Kohm

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 3, 2022

Hello! I’m Amelia Kohm of Data Viz for Nonprofits (DVN). DVN helps organizations to quickly grasp their data, improve their work, and show their impact and offers up weekly 60-Second Data Tips to those in the nonprofit world. Today, I’m here to talk about BANs (Big A** Numbers) and aids for digesting them. BANs are …

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DVR TIG Week: Weaving Together Narrative Through Journey Mapping by Marsha Williamson, Manon Matchett, and Mindelyn Anderson

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 3, 2022

Greetings, I am Marsha Williamson, patient navigation member of Black Women Thriving East of the River (BWTEoR), a five-year breast cancer survivor, and I am a native to Washington, DC and have resided East of the River in Ward 7 for over 20 years. Hello, I am Manon Matchett, Co-Lead, BWTEoR and a 25-year plus …

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ACM TIG Week: Evaluation, risk, and our collective power by Jeremy Foutz

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / May 5, 2022

My name is Jeremy Foutz, and I’m an ethnomusicologist, evaluator, and principal at STEAM  Workgroup, working with cultural and informal learning organizations. I’m writing this from the position of a cis white man who, although coming from a family that survived on welfare programs, had/has significant levels of privilege. This week of posts from the …

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ACM TIG Week: Audience Impact by Jennifer Novak-Leonard

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / April 29, 2022

This post was original released on AEA365 in 2012, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG. Hi everyone – My name is Jennifer Novak-Leonard, and I’m a Senior Consultant with WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and …

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ACM TIG Week: Evaluating our Impact: Priorities and Instruments by Kari Ross Nelson

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / May 11, 2022

My name is Kari Ross Nelson. I am the Research and Evaluation Associate at Thanksgiving Point Institute and an independent consultant to museums and other informal learning organizations in the greater Salt Lake City area. My team at Thanksgiving Point is the research partner on an IMLS-funded project, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI). This …

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ACM TIG Week: Building Staff Evaluative Thinking (and a Pyramid) with a Guest Needs Hierarchy by Lauren Holley

2 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Museums / April 29, 2022

Hello! I’m Lauren Holley, the Audience and Evaluation Specialist at Space Center Houston. I work with our full organization; as our first in-house evaluator, I am shaping colleagues’ perspectives of evaluation and embedding accountability, iterative improvement, and focus on outcomes into our offerings. Our greatest and broadest offering is our general visitor experience. With consistent …

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ACM TIG Week: Collaborating with Practitioners to Create Relevant Instruments to Measure Library Staff Capacity for Informal Learning Activities by Patricia Montaño, Megan Littrell, Anne Gold, Claire Ratcliffe Adams, & Brooks Mitchell

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / May 5, 2022

We are Patricia Montaño, Megan Littrell, and Anne Gold from CIRES Education & Outreach at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Claire Ratcliffe Adams and Brooks Mitchell from the National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. We collaborate on the We are Water project to design informal Science, …

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