My name is Pam Larson Nippolt and I am a University of Minnesota Extension Youth Development faculty member who works on a team of program evaluators in youth development. I also have consulted with and evaluated programs for over 15 years. I have found a recently-released resource for those of us who evaluate and study …
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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 …
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We are Veronica Smith and Chris Metzner. Veronica is principal of data2insight, an evaluation and research firm with data visualization expertise and Chris Metzner is a freelance graphic designer. Matt Keene and Chris created the popular fuzzy logic model for the Oregon Paint Stewardship Pilot Program. The fuzzy logic model concept (FLM) evolved out of …
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I’m Johanna Morariu, a Director at Innovation Network, an evaluation consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations and foundations. Rad Resources: I want to share two extremely useful network analysis and mapping tools: Gephi and NodeXL. I use NodeXL for collecting, organizing, and analyzing network data and Gephi for attractively presenting sociograms or network maps. …
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Oh, hi. I’m Stephanie Evergreen and I’m in love with data visualization and reporting (DVR). I blog about DVR, I tweet about DVR, and sometimes I even dream about DVR. I was in love with DVR at first sight so I’m here to tell you what you can do when you realize you, too, have …
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Our names are Amy Germuth and Johanna Morariu and we are proud to serve as the Chair and Co-Chair of the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG. Although this TIG started just last year we already have multiple members working to entice the AEA community to better communicate using infographics and data visualizations. We hope you …
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Hello! We are Katrina Brewsaugh, and Stephen Brehm. We are the Data Team at One Hope United, an agency providing a wide range of child and family services in Illinois, Missouri, and Florida. Evaluators are often tasked with measuring how a program is meeting performance measures and making recommendations on whether programs that are not …
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My name is Josey Landrieu, Assistant Professor in Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. One of the things I enjoy the most about my work is the opportunity to collaborate with external partners in research and evaluation projects. Liliana Rodriguez-Campos (2005) defines collaborative evaluation as “an evaluation in which there …
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Hi, we are Jane Powers and Christine Heib from Cornell University. We have been collaborating with a community agency to assess the needs and numbers of homeless youth in the county. In order to study this invisible sector of the youth population, we engaged a group of homeless youth as research partners. They helped develop …
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Hi! Denece Dodson and Lyn Paleo are evaluators at First 5 Contra Costa California, a public foundation that funds programs serving young children. Many evaluators wrestle with ways to encourage clients of health and social programs to complete evaluation forms—especially those who are uncomfortable with or hostile toward pre- or post-tests. An innovative way to …
