data visualization

EEE Week: Brigitte Scott on Data Visualization for Extension Evaluation

My name is Brigitte Scott and I am the Evaluation and Research Specialist for the Military Families Learning Network (MFLN), which engages military family service professionals in high-quality, research-based professional development. The MFLN is part of the Department of Defense (DoD) – U.S. Department of Agriculture / National Institute for Food and Agriculture Partnership for …

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Best of aea365 week: Amy Germuth on Reporting Findings

My name is Amy A. Germuth,  and I am Founder and President of EvalWorks, LLC in Durham, NC and blog at EvalThoughts.com. Over the last year I have worked improving my reporting of findings to better meet my client’s needs and have a few great resources to help you do the same. Rad Resource: “Unlearning Some of …

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Jayne Corso on Using Pinterest for Inspiration

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso.  I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Pinterest is a wonderful tool for creating shopping lists and finding great DYI projects, but did you also know that it is a useful resource for finding interesting data visuals and info graphics? After all, Pinterest is a …

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William Faulkner and João Martinho on Visual Communication with a Poster: A Quick, Dirty, and Biased Case Study

Hello, we are William Faulkner (i2i Institute) and João Martinho (PlanPP), writing here on our own poster design process, which apparently worked well enough to impress some of the judges at AEA 2014. We were guided by a simple principle: understand what the target audience considers relevant and where this overlaps with that which we …

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John Murphy on Ode to the Annotation

Greetings, fellow evaluation enthusiasts! My name is John Murphy and I am an Evaluation Associate on the Education Research and Measurement team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. We provide evaluative support to various forms of learning and career development, ranging from clinical orientation to leadership and management training. One of our clients does extensive …

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Jayne Corso on Using HootSuite to Monitor Evaluation Trends and Conversations on Social Media

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I work with Dan McDonnell as a Community Manager for AEA. As a frequent social media user, and one of the voices behind @aeaweb, I am always searching for new tools that can organize my social media feeds and help me stay up-to-date on the latest conversations, topics, …

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APC TIG Week: Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj on Small Picture, Big Picture: Using the Framework for Public Policy Advocacy in a Large-Scale Advocacy Campaign

Hello evaluation world! We are Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj from Innovation Network. This might sound familiar: you are given hundreds of pages of grant documents to make sense of. You are left wondering, “Where do I start?” We were recently tasked with guiding evaluation for a funder’s national advocacy campaign, and had to make …

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SW TIG Week: Alicia McCoy on How to Engage Social Workers in Evaluation

Hello, my name is Alicia McCoy and I am the Research and Evaluation Manager at Family Life in Melbourne, Australia.  Family Life is a nonprofit community organization that supports families, children and young people.  A big part of my job is ensuring our practitioners (both social workers and other human service professionals) value and participate …

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Sheila B Robinson on the Olympics – Visualized!

Happy Winter Olympics! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. While evaluation is on my mind  daily, this weekend, like those of many citizens of the world, my thoughts have turned to sports. No doubt that the Olympics, like any sporting event, interests statisticians but it also generates mounds of fodder …

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Evaluation 2013 Conference Week: Sheila B. Robinson on How to Win a Copy of Presenting Data Effectively

I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, and a huge Stephanie Evergreen fan. Rad Resource: I’m thrilled to report that SAGE Publications just released Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact. The book is already a success, as it is sold out on Amazon (at the time of this writing), and …

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