My name is Dr. Michelle Chandrasekhar and I serve as Board Secretary for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). My work experience includes higher education and state government, and recently with local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies. Working in different venues reminded me that our evaluation reports share several key elements across disciplines, audiences, and …
Greetings fellow evaluators! We are Veena Pankaj, Kat Athanasiades, Deborah Grodzicki, and Johanna Morariu from Innovation Network. Communicating evaluation data effectively is important—it can enhance your stakeholders’ understanding of evaluative information and promote its use. Dataviz is an excellent way to communicate evaluation results in an engaging way! Today’s post provides a step-by-step guide to …
Hello my fellow evaluators. This is Chris Lysy, world renowned evaluation cartoonist and owner of the recently formed independent evaluation & design consultancy Freshspectrum LLC. It’s happening. The business world is starting to turn on big data. There is a somewhat new-ish trend in coherent arguments on the perils of big data …
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Hi! I’m Katherine Shea. Global Forest Watch (GFW) is one of many groups aiming to improve accountability through transparency by providing open data — in this case geospatial environmental data identifying deforestation in near-real time. Our goal is to reduce deforestation. Demonstrating that we’ve had an impact, through credible, visible data, is a unique challenge. …
Hello! I’m Tony Fujs, Data Scientist at the World Bank. As many fellow data nerds, I love to visualize the data I have in my hands, but I also like to spend time visualizing data that I don’t have: Missing data. Why would I do that? Because bad handling of missing data can seriously bias …
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Hello from Vancouver, BC, Canada. My name is Janina Mobach. I work as the internal evaluator for the University of British Columbia Learning Exchange. Part of the university located off-campus in Vancouver’s inner city, our aim is to bring people together to exchange learning that leads to social change. Applying visualization concepts into my work …
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Ann K. Emery and Denise Roosendaal here. We teamed up to produce a slide document about AEA’s vision for what the association could look like by 2020. Here’s a sneak peek of the fuller document, which will be released later this year. Slide documents, or slidedocs, are slideshow-document hybrids. They’re designed inside presentation software like …
We are Lauren Baba and Carol Cahill with the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE), part of Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) in Seattle. Our team of consultants works with a various stakeholders to evaluate community health initiatives, clinic-community linkages, and health improvement coalitions. We are always brainstorming new ways to make evaluation reports …
Hello! We are Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang, from the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. We presented together at Eval2012 would like to share some practical tips on literature searches in the context of evaluation. 2016 Update: Monica Hargraves is now Associate Director for Evaluation Partnerships at the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation; Miranda Fang is now Manager, …
I am Jonathan Jones, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Advisor at CAMRIS International. I am also co-chair of AEA’s International and Cross Cultural TIG. As an evaluator, have you ever gotten feedback from someone that changed the way you write evaluation reports? Someone* gave me this great feedback several years ago on a draft evaluation …
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