Hi, my name is Deven Wisner, the Manager of Human Capital & Business Analytics at Global Registration Services, Inc. By night, I am an independent evaluator and blogger — more on that here! Word Clouds. Let’s talk about them. Specifically, when are they appropriate to use? And more importantly, when shouldn’t they be used. If you’re like …
DVR TIG Week: Word Clouds: More Cloudy Than Clear? By Deven Wisner Read More »
My name is Elissa Schloesser with Visual Voice, I am a freelance graphic designer specializing in infographics, data visualization and reporting. I enjoy making complex information more understandable and engaging. I have partnered with several evaluators to help visually communicate evaluation methods and findings. Below are a few techniques I use to make logic models, …
DVR TIG Week: Designing Digestible Diagrams by Elissa Schloesser Read More »
Hello good people! My name is Robert Perez and I am a research assistant at Hamai Consulting and data analyst at Youth Policy Institute. I am responsible for cleaning and analyzing data from various sources and designing engaging ways to communicate findings using reports, dashboards, and infographics. I spend some time at the beginning of …
DVR TIG Week: Automating Your Project Management Tools: The Gantt Chart by Robert Perez Read More »
Hello! I’m Julie Lamping, a research analyst at Harper College in Illinois. A lot of what I do is extracting data that is needed, formatting it into tables or charts, and providing a basic analysis to be used during decision making at the College. No matter the project, everything gets thrown into Excel at some …
DVR TIG Week: You Should Pivot in Excel More by Julia Lamping Read More »
Greetings from Minneapolis, Minnesota! I am Angie Ficek, a Program Evaluator at Professional Data Analysts (PDA), an independent consulting firm specializing in evaluating public health programs. We wanted to share three data viz related features in Office 2016 that are easy and helpful for spiffing up evaluation reports and presentations. Cool Tricks: 1. Icons: Icons are …
DVR TIG Week: Some Hidden (or Not So Hidden) Data Viz Gems in Office 2016 by Angie Ficek Read More »
Hi! I’m Kate Diaz, Senior Manager for Corporate Measurement, TechnoServe. When working with data visualizations, it can sometimes be difficult to craft the message that drives home the key insight for your audience. That was an issue we faced as we began to plan for our 2016 Impact Report, which uses data visualizations to help …
I’m Giovanni Dazzo, co-chair of the Democracy & Governance TIG and an evaluator with the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). I’m going to share how we collaborated with our grantees to develop a set of common measures—around policy advocacy, training and service delivery outcomes—that would be meaningful to them, …
Good day, I’m Bernadette Wright, program evaluator with Meaningful Evidence, LLC. Conducting interviews as part of a program evaluation is a great way better understand the specific situation from stakeholders’ perspectives. Online, interactive maps are a useful technique for presenting findings from that qualitative data to inform action for organization leaders who are working to …
Using KUMU for Visualizing Interview Data by Bernadette Wright Read More »
Hi! I’m Sarah Dunifon, Research and Evaluation Associate at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). In my role, I create many reports and I’m always looking for efficient tools for data visualization. I’ve found a few different programs to display location data, which I’d like to share with the wider AEA community. Rad Resources: Google Fusion …
Tools for Mapping Location Data by Sarah Dunifon Read More »
Greetings! I am Kendra Lewis, Evaluation Coordinator for the California 4-H Youth Development Program at University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources. Today I am going to share my experience with a “data party” as a way to engage stakeholders in evaluation data. We recently held a one-day workshop with 4-H camp staff (youth and …
Have a Party to Share Evaluation Results! by Kendra Lewis Read More »
