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Data Visualization and Reporting

Susan Kistler on Making Us Laugh to Win a Great Book from SAGE Publications

19 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / November 26, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. At the annual conference earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Data Visualization and Reporting group’s innovative business meeting. They filled the meeting with short Ignite presentations interspersed with fun activities (well at least to evaluators!). Lesson Learned: …

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Susan Kistler on Tips and Tools for Presentations From Ignite AEA

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / November 12, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I post each Saturday to aea365. Earlier this month, the AEA Data Visualization and Reporting TIG hosted Ignite the Night at AEA’s annual conference – a fast paced and fun series of presentations where each presenter gets five minutes and 20 …

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John Nash on the Ignite Event and Slide Clinic at the AEA Conference

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / October 20, 2011

I’m John Nash and I’m the program co-chair, with Stuart Henderson, for the American Evaluation Association’s new Topical Interest Group, Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR TIG). I’m here to tell you about some innovative events taking place in Anaheim during the 2011 AEA Conference. Hot Tip: Ignite Yourself at the Conference You don’t need matches …

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Corey Newhouse on Using Video in Evaluation

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / October 19, 2011

My name is Corey Newhouse and I’m the Founder and Principal of Public Profit. We help youth service and educational organizations measure and manage what matters. I’m a self-taught user of video in evaluation, and am writing to share some of my lessons learned. We have incorporated video into our evaluation studies for the last …

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Jeff Wasbes on Causal Loop Diagrams

5 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Systems in Evaluation / October 16, 2011

I am Jeff Wasbes, a Senior Researcher and Project manager with Research Works, Inc., an independent evaluation consulting firm. A simple and functionally useful tool for diagramming systems is the Causal Loop Diagram (CLD). CLDs have been applied in nearly every conceivable discipline because by just using some very basic elements, one can describe the …

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Penny Black on Comparing Prezi and PowerPoint

11 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Uncategorized / September 11, 2011

My name is Penny Black and I am a Public Health Program Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute.  As an evaluator, I am often called upon to present or facilitate discussions of evaluation results. Rad Resource – Prezi: For years, the presentation tool standard has been Microsoft PowerPoint. I have recently begun …

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Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer on NWEA’s Data Gallery and Standardized Educational Testing

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Government Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / September 1, 2011

My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …

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Sharon Smith-Halstead on Storytelling in Evaluation

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Qualitative Methods / August 3, 2011

My name is Sharon Smith-Halstead and I would like to share tools for storytelling for evaluators. Lesson Learned: There is an art to telling stories. Whether you are narrating the story of your grandmother’s journey to America, of your child’s first words, or of the way a program succeeded or failed, there is an art …

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Susan Kistler on How to Win a Copy of Visualize This

75 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 27, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and contributor of each Saturday’s post to aea365. Back on day 2 of aea365, in January of 2010, I recommended FlowingData as part of a post about favorite resources for data visualization inspiration. Rad Resource: This month, FlowingData’s curator, Nathan Yau, published Visualize This: …

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