Hi Everyone, my name is Najat Elgeberi and I work as an assistant professor for program evaluation at the University of Nevada Reno-Extension. In my career I used to do a lot of consultancy work in the field of evaluation. I had to analyze data, create visuals and write reports. The most challenging part was …
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Hello everyone! This is Shelly Engelman and Tom Withee. While we’ve shared many examples in the past on building interactive data dashboards in Excel, we’re thrilled to introduce you to a powerful tool for visualizing data: interactive QUALITATIVE dashboards. While many of us are familiar with visualizing quantitative data, open-ended survey responses often get overlooked …
Hi. I am David Fetterman. I am the president of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation firm. I am also the past-president of the American Evaluation Association and a co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG (with Liliana Rodríguez). I am the recipient of the Myrdal Award for Practice, the Lazarsfeld Award for …
Hi! My name is Gwen Davis, and I am a Senior Data Communications Specialist at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). We regularly conduct program evaluations and nationally representative surveys to gather the most up-to-date data on local health departments in the United States. As researchers and evaluators, we often share …
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Hi, I’m Gretchen Biesecker, Principal Consultant with Bee’s Knees Consulting LLC in Somerville, MA. Most of my work focuses on evaluation capacity-building with nonprofits. I’ve been fascinated by data physicalization—collecting, visualizing, engaging with data using tactile and physical forms. In 2019, I participated in a survey with strings at a Points of Light conference and …
DVR TIG Week: Let’s Get Physical (with Data and in the Garden) by Gretchen Biesecker Read More »
We are excited to share some useful tips for creating visually appealing findings reports for federal clients. Allow us to introduce the team—Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday are based in ICF’s Public Health Solutions portfolio. In late 2022, the team supported the creation of several reports to disseminate key …
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. Rad Resources Have you played around with charts in Canva? It’s a great, free online design tool. …
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Hello! My name is Christy King. I am the Internal Evaluator for Pennsylvania’s State GEAR UP grant. Since I began working on the grant almost 8 years ago, one of my endeavors has been to provide data visualizations that are useful to a variety of roles. One aspect of this endeavor is being open to …
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Hello AEA365 community! I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla. I work as a Data Research Analyst in the Division of Student Affairs at Binghamton University. If you have ever had the privilege of performing text analytics with open-source PDF files, then you understand the innate challenges – they are not standardized for easy extraction. In fact, a simple copy/paste can lead to more tedious manual steps in order to maintain structural integrity.
Hello! We are Morgan Buras-Finlay and Caitlyn Bukaty. I, Caitlyn, have served as a leader of the AEA Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations (DUP) TIG for many years and work as a research associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. I, Morgan, am an evaluator and researcher, and also identify as hard of …
