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My name is Angie Ficek and I am a Program Evaluator at Professional Data Analysts, Inc. (PDA), a small firm in Minneapolis, MN that specializes in public health evaluation. It wasn’t too long ago that I was reviewing a co-worker’s report and came across a bunch of tables of descriptive statistics like the one below. …

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My name is Angie Ficek and I am a Program Evaluator at Professional Data Analysts, Inc. (PDA), a small firm in Minneapolis, MN that specializes in public health evaluation. Every once in a while I include timelines in my reports and/or presentations. I know there are many tools out there to create timelines, including Office …

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Hi! We are Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and Creative Advisor of this blog and Joseph Barnes (Senior Partner at ImpactReady). Today we are going to talk about the work ImpactReady is sponsoring to develop new ideas for using creativity and Dataviz to celebrate the International Year of Evaluation. Like many evaluators, we have been …

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Hi! I’m Mandi Singleton, Research Assistant at Carson Research Consulting (CRC) in Baltimore, Maryland. Last October I attended Eval 2014 and gave a poster presentation on the process, results and implications of translating data findings into an infographic. My main focus when designing the poster was graphical content. I wanted to impress upon viewers the …

DVR TIG Week: Mandi Singleton on Six Steps for Creating an Attractive, Engaging, and Informative Poster Read More »

Hi! I’m Dave Shellard, the program evaluation manager at a professional association based in Washington, DC and Data Visualization and Reporting TIG (DVR TIG) Program Chair. As a founding member of the DVR TIG I’ve been a long advocate of incorporating meaningful and intentional data viz into communicating evaluation results. Like many of us, I’m …

DVR TIG Week: Dave Shellard on Keeping Your Data Out of the Public Domain by Using Free Downloadable Templates for Data Visualization and Reporting Read More »

Greetings! My name is Sarah Mason and I am a Ph.D. student in the Evaluation & Applied Research Methods program at Claremont Graduate University. My research focuses on the effectiveness of data visualization techniques, and my goal is to make sure that the communication strategies evaluators use have as much empirical support as the programs …

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Hello! I am Jill Lipski Cain with the Improve Group. This blog post promotes the use of a style guide to make a report both purposeful and aesthetically-pleasing. I think of a style guide as a thoughtful plan that considers best practices in data visualization, delivery tone, and highlighting the important information. I’ll be using …

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Hey there! I’m Johanna Morariu, a Director of Innovation Network and the Co-Chair of the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG. The DVRTIG works to improve the quality of communications through better data visualization and improved approaches to reporting evaluation findings. What is Visual Reporting? Dataviz, data placemats, infographics, slide reports, and more! Visual reporting differs …

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