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NME Week: “View From Inside”: A Brief Guidebook to Internal Evaluation by Deborah Good

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 31, 2019

Hi, I’m Deborah Good, Director of Organizational Learning and Research for a nonprofit called Future Focused Education. Our organization works toward individual and system changes, always with an eye toward our city’s most vulnerable young people. We run a paid internship program for high school students, support a network of innovative schools, elevate student voices, …

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NME Week: New Mexico (NM) Evaluators Week by Kathryn Lowerre

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 31, 2019

Greetings! I’m Kathryn Lowerre, communications co-chair at NM Evaluators (www.nmeval.org) and evaluator for the Drug Overdose Prevention Program at the NM Department of Health. Following the lead of fellow affiliates (like our neighbor, AZENet), we’re sponsoring a week of blogs around evaluation in NM. In 2019, NM Evaluators is building from our October 2018 annual …

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About Evaluation Matrixes by Sara Vaca

7 Comments / Uncategorized / February 5, 2019

Hi, I am Sara Vaca (Independent Evaluator and Saturday’s contributor to this blog). One concern evaluators and commissioners share is how to operationalize the evaluation questions.  That is: how to articulate that the link between the evaluation questions (what we want to know or confirm) and the data collection (what we are actually asking and …

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7 Tips To Get Started with Data Visualization by Sara Vaca

5 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 20, 2019

Hi, dear readers! I’m Sara Vaca (independent consultant and Data Visualization lover, Saturday eventual contributor to this blog) and I thought of starting the year by sharing tips about something people sometimes ask me. Leason Learned: Becoming slightly obsessed with something helps. I discovered Dataviz in 2011 while I started on Twitter, during a maternity …

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SNA TIG Week: Going beyond the graph – Tools to increase interest in the results of SNA by Sophia Guevara

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / December 11, 2018

My name is Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. This post will focus on how to present the results of SNA in a way that goes beyond the report.  Oftentimes, evaluation professionals are asked to study a program and/or a network with the results of the study often ending up in a large report.  After an initial …

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SNA TIG Week: Researchers making use of SNA in healthcare, care coordination and fraud investigations by Sophia Guevara

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / December 11, 2018

My name is Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA.  While conducting research for the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal Child Health Bureau challenges, I came up with interesting research that provided information on how Social Network Analysis (SNA) is being used in healthcare.  Here are four papers that I came across in my research that might …

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SNA TIG Week: Is There A Divide Between SNA Data And Traditional Evaluation Data? by Simon Geletta

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / December 11, 2018

My name is Simon Geletta and I’m a professor in the Department of Public Health at Des Moines University.  In most program evaluation programs that rely on quantitative data for evaluation, the focus of data preparation is for statistical analysis – not for social network analysis (SNA). Some scholars have highlighted the differences in the …

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SNA TIG Week: An Introduction to Network Canvas by Gregory Phillips

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / December 19, 2018

Hello! I’m Gregory Phillips and I work with both the EDIT and CONNECT research programs at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Here at EDIT, we use evaluation, data integration, and technical assistance to foster a learning community to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ populations in Chicago and …

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SNA TIG Week: Is It A Small World After All? by Dr. Abhik Roy

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / December 11, 2018

Hello! My name is . I am an assistant professor at West Virginia University and part of the SNA TIG. In this post, I would simply like to discuss how the history of social networks impacted you. Cool Trick: Small Worlds In 1967, Stanley Milgram sent out 160 packages to random people in Omaha, Nebraska. …

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