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ICCE TIG Week: Can big data be used in evaluation? By Claudia Lopes and Shravanti Reddy

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / October 8, 2018 October 5, 2018

Greetings, fellow evaluators. Claudia Lopes, Affiliated Lecturer at University of Cambridge and Shravanti Reddy, Evaluation Specialist UN Women Independent Evaluation Service here to share our learnings from the recently published report ‘Can Big Data be Used in Evaluation?: A UN Women Feasibility Study’. The quick answer… yes, but we still need to learn more and …

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Using Text Analysis to Identify New Areas of Improvement in Evaluation by Sy Islam, Michael Chetta, and Andrzej Kozikowski

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 2, 2018 August 30, 2018

Hi, we are Sy Islam, Michael Chetta, and Andrzej Kozikowski from Talent Metrics, a data driven consulting firm. We’re writing about using text analysis to identify new areas of improvement when conducting an evaluation. Evaluation research often uses surveys or other forms of data collection that limit potential outcomes of the evaluation. When designing a …

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Attending to nuance with Qualitative Comparative Analysis by Maureen Hawes, Arlene Russell and Jason Altman

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / May 14, 2018 May 12, 2018

Hello! We are Maureen Hawes from the University of Minnesota’s Systems Improvement Group, Arlene Russell, independent consultant, and Jason Altman from the TerraLuna Collaborative. We are writing to share our experience with fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). You may have faced questions similar to ones that we grappled with as evaluators, using quantitative analysis …

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NA TIG Week: Creative Ways to Get Useful and Actionable Data for a Small Budget Needs Assessment by Beth Mulligan and Kate Darwent

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / March 21, 2018 March 17, 2018

Hello! We’re Beth Mulligan and Kate Darwent from Corona Insights, a firm that provides research, evaluation, and strategic consulting services for government and nonprofit organizations. We are often contacted by clients who have both very limited resources and a very strong desire to understand and address the needs in their community (whether “their community” is …

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Helping Nonprofits Use Data to Learn by Chari Smith, President, Evaluation into Action by Chari Smith

3 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / December 4, 2017 November 26, 2017

Hi, I’m Chari Smith with Evaluation into Action. I work with a range of nonprofits and foundations in the Northwest area. Evaluation is a learning opportunity. Nonprofits need help to set up their organizations so that they can integrate program evaluation into their daily activities. It is a critical piece to ensure they can do …

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Labor Day Week: Cleaning Up Data: Turning the Dirt by Samantha Theriault

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / September 4, 2017 September 2, 2017

My name is Samantha Theriault, and I am the Research Assistant at Randi Korn & Associates (RK&A), a research, evaluation and intentional planning company that specializes in museums and informal learning. Lesson Learned: As a research assistant, I spend much of my time entering and processing data. Data entry and clean-up is time consuming and …

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