Hi folks. Susan Kistler normally contributes the Saturday post on aea365, but she’s busy cleaning and updating your awesome proposals. I’m Stephanie Evergreen, AEA’s eLearning Initiatives Director and the lead of a new AEA project initiated by the AEA Board of Directors – the Potent Presentations Initiative. We’ll be identifying and sharing research-based strategies to …
I’m John Nash and I’m an associate professor at the University of Kentucky in the department of educational leadership studies. I’m also co-founder of the OpenEye Group, a consultancy working in Europe and the States to enhance program impact in the social sector. Currently I’m blogging in several places in different capacities. I have a …
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Mary Anne Casey here. I’m a Minnesota-based consultant who helps people plan and evaluate programs. I’ve also done some writing and teaching on qualitative methods, particularly focus groups. Are you on the lookout for ways to make your presentations more memorable and meaningful? Rad Resource: Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Made to Stick, is jam-packed …
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I’m Catherine Rain of Rain and Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., a research and evaluation firm in Rockledge, Florida. Ever look at an evaluation project overflowing with new learning and fantastic results and wonder: What now? What can we do with this valuable information –beyond writing a report or peer-review publishing? How about taking it public …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 ongoing Saturday contributor. This has been a great week, highlighting posts from AEA’s Data Visualization and Reporting Topical Interest Group. The DVR TIG’s willingness to lead the way in exploring reporting alternatives has lead to a change in the …
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Greetings from Boise, the city of trees! We are Rakesh Mohan (director) and Margaret Campbell (administrative coordinator) of Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE). Margaret reviews drafts of our reports from a nonevaluator’s perspective, as well as copyedits and desktop publishes each report. In this post, we share our thoughts on the importance of …
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 …
DVR Week: Stephanie Evergreen on What To Do When You’ve Got It Bad for DVR Read More »
