DVR TIG Week: Tony Fujs on Dataviz with the Grammar of Graphics: R you Ready?

Hello! I’m Tony Fujs, Director of Evaluation at the Latin American Youth Center, a DC based non-profit organization. Today, I want to share my experience using R and ggplot2 for data visualization. Ggplot2 is a great tool from the R toolbox (a package, in R lingo). It relies on the powerful Grammar of Graphics framework, …

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DVR TIG Week: Rakesh Mohan, Lance McCleve, Tony Grange, Bryon Welch, and Margaret Campbell on Sankey Diagrams: A Cool Tool for Explaining the Complex Flow of Resources in Large Organizations

We are Rakesh Mohan, Lance McCleve, Tony Grange, Bryon Welch, and Margaret Campbell of the Office of Performance Evaluations, an independent agency of the Idaho State Legislature. Last year, the Legislature asked us to explain how funds move through the Department of Health and Welfare—the agency with the state’s largest budget. Legislators, including budget committee …

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DVR TIG Week: Ann K. Emery on Dataviz2: Visualization and Reporting about the DVR TIG

Welcome! I’m Ann Emery, Co-Chair of the Data Visualization and Reporting Topical Interest Group (“DVR TIG”). It seems only fitting to tell you more about the DVR TIG through, well, data visualization and reporting! Some highlights: AEA has 48 topical interest groups. They specialize in everything from quantitative methods to advocacy evaluation to data visualization. …

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DVR TIG Week: Johanna Morariu on the DVR Logic Model & Introducing the DVR Week

Hey there! I’m Johanna Morariu, a Director of Innovation Network and the Co-Chair of the DVRTIG. DVR is the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG, and we work within the AEA community and through our evaluation work to improve the quality of communications through better data visualization and improved approaches to reporting evaluation findings. You could …

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Best of aea365: Sheila B Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist!

Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I originally composed this post in May of 2013, but feel it deserves another go as I’m feverishly queuing up some fabulous sponsored weeks for summer. Keep up with aea365 through weekly Headlines and Resources, the new and improved AEA website, and AEA newsletters. I work …

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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López on Creating “Enabling Environments” for Monitoring & Evaluation

We are Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López from the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America, proud members of the CLEAR Initiative. Would you recognize an “enabling environment” if you “saw” it?  The enabling environment concept is very popular among professionals in evaluation. But what does it mean?   How you create and cultivate this kind of …

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CLEAR Week: Boubacar Aw on Evaluation Capacity Building in Francophone Africa: Development of teaching materials through training of trainers (TOT)

I am Boubacar Aw, Coordinator of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) for Francophone Africa hosted at Centre Africain d’Etudes Superieures en Gestion (CESAG) in Senegal, Dakar. I am writing today to offer practical tips on how to develop teaching materials through a Training of Trainers (ToT) model. These tips are …

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CLEAR Week: Gemma Stevenson on Building M&E Skills and Knowledge: Lessons from Pakistan

Hello – My name is Gemma Stevenson. I am Associate Director for the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) where we run rigorous research projects and deliver evaluation trainings as part of CLEAR South Asia. So what have we learnt over the last three years delivering trainings on M&E to the Pakistani government and …

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CLEAR Week: Tim Clynick on Beyond Rhetoric: Africa’s National Evaluation Movement

Tim Clynick, Acting Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results in Anglophone Africa, (University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ghana Institute of Public Administration and the Kenya School of Government) Greetings from CLEAR Anglophone Africa! We are often asked where our programme – now in its third year – is having the …

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CLEAR Week: Diva Dhar and Urmy Shukla on Designing Courses for M&E Capacity Building: Lessons from South Asia

We are Diva Dhar (Program Director) and Urmy Shukla (Capacity Building Manager) at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, based at J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. We work to strengthen M&E skills in South Asia, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. As part of our work, …

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