Hi, I’m David Keyes. I started R for the Rest of Us this year to help evaluators (and others) embrace the incredibly powerful piece of software that is R. This awkwardly named tool has the power to completely transform the way we work. There are many reasons to learn R. Here are a few of …
Why You Should Consider Learning R By David Keyes Read More »
I’m Jennifer Dolatshahi, an evaluator at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In addition to my evaluation activities, I also teach internal workshops on beginner and intermediate R. No matter how many other programs cross my desk, R remains one of my favorite tools for data manipulation, analysis, visualization, reporting, etc. …
My name is Pankaj Verma and I work as an Evaluation Officer in IED. Yesterday’s post was about how we scope our evaluations in IED. Today is all about our methods. In the past, methodology usually fell under two broad approaches: qualitative and quantitative. A third approach, mixed-methods, is often used by researchers and evaluators …
IED UN Week: Marvelous Methods! By Pankaj Verma Read More »
Hello! I’m Deven Wisner, Consultant for Empact Solutions and Wisner Analytics, LLC. I’m also the Communications Chair for the Arizona Evaluation Network. As we think about fundamentals in evaluation, we can’t forget data visualization and reporting (DVR). In fact, if you ask me, that’s where the FUN in fundamental comes in! Realizing that capacity and …
AZENet Week: Revisiting Dataviz & Reporting Fundamentals by Deven Wisner Read More »
Hello! My name is Rhonda Williams, and I am a Research and Evaluation Analyst for Region 10 Education Service Center. I provide internal program evaluations in addition to external research and evaluation services for our partner school districts. I was inspired by Ann K. Emery’s, A Two-Hour Turnaround: How to Transform a Text-Heavy Report into …
SEA Affiliate Week: “Jazzing Up” Evaluation Reports by Rhonda Williams Read More »
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 …
7 Tips To Get Started with Data Visualization by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi! We are; Ouen Hunter (student at the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation, IDPE), Emma Perk (The Evaluation Center), and Michael Harnar (Assistant Professor at the IDPE) from Western Michigan University. Recently, we used Photovoice in our evaluation of an Upward Bound program and wanted to share how we reported our findings using the cost-free version …
Evaluation Reporting with Adobe Spark by Ouen Hunter and Emma Perk Read More »
My name is Veronica S. Smith. I am founder and principal of data2insight–a consultancy with the imperative to help people use data to create high performing teams and solve the complex problems of our age. I coined the term ‘dashboarding’ in a chapter of a 2013 New Directions for Evaluation volume on data visualization. Dashboarding …
Hello! Robert Blagg, Todd Franke, and Jonathan Litt, of UCLA’s Agile Visual Analytics Lab (AVAL) here to share some lessons learned, hot tips, and rad resources related to speaking truth to powerful stakeholders through data visualization. Our successful engagement of powerful stakeholders around data visualization, designing utilization-focused visuals, and ensuring use and sustainability of data …
Hello! I’m Fiona Remnant, founder of a small UK social enterprise set up to continue developing and applying QuIP – a new qualitative social impact assessment tool, from research conducted in the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath. The problem? The QuIP team have been experimenting with a form of ‘goal-free’ evaluation …
DVR TIG Week: TIG Data Visualization by Fiona Remnant Read More »
