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DVR TIG Week: Location Location: Data Storytelling with Maps by Andrea Miller

I’m Andrea Miller, a hiker and kayaker often disguised as an Evaluation and Analytics consultant. I work in partnership with community-based organizations, municipalities, and state and federal agencies who are concerned with mental health, public health, and housing/homelessness.  I think a lot about the meaning and significance of place, and the solid ground it can …

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IED UN Week: Marvelous Methods! By Pankaj Verma

My name is Pankaj Verma and I work as an Evaluation Officer in IED. Yesterday’s post was about how we scope our evaluations in IED. Today is all about our methods. In the past, methodology usually fell under two broad approaches: qualitative and quantitative. A third approach, mixed-methods, is often used by researchers and evaluators …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: GIS Mapping Results in R! by Carrie Wiley and Matt Reeder

Hi! Our names are Carrie Wiley and Matt Reeder and we are Senior Research Scientists at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). We would like to share an abbreviated version of our demonstration session presented at the 2016 annual meeting in Atlanta on how to create map data in R. It sounds like a daunting …

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CP TIG Week: Chris Michael Kirk on Mapping Health Disparities

Hello. My name is Chris Michael Kirk and I am the Director of Mission Development at Atlantic Health System in New Jersey where I lead our Center for Population Health Sciences. At the Center, we conduct applied population health research and disseminate and evaluate community health interventions, including our Healthy Communities Initiative designed to reducing …

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NA TIG Week: Lisle Hites Using GIS in Your Needs Assessment

I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG and Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Today’s posting is about the use of data visualization to enhance your needs assessment. Recently, my team worked with a state agency to help them identify potential sites for …

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Large Scale Eval Week: Erin M. Liang, Mark M. Holske, and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Using GIS Maps Based on Census Data as a Proxy for Race/Ethnicity and Other Missing Variables When Using Administrative Data

Hello, Erin M. Liang, Mark M. Holske, and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo here, members of the research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment law (Chapter 224) from the Office of the State Auditor. Using administrative data with a significant number of missing key variables (e.g. race/ethnicity) can be challenging in trying to answer specific evaluation questions. …

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Nichole Stewart on Data Science for Little Data and Big Data in Program Evaluation

Greetings! I’m Nichole Stewart, a doctoral student in UMBC’s Public Policy program in the evaluation and analytical methods track. I currently work as an analyst, data manager, and evaluator across a few different sites including Baltimore Integration Partnership, Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative, and Carson Research Consulting Inc. Lessons Learned: The Growing Role of Data Science …

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Taj Carson on Visualizing Neighborhood-Level Data with Baltimore DataMind

I’m Taj Carson, the President of Carson Research Consulting (CRC) in Baltimore, MD. CRC is a research and evaluation consulting firm and we’ve seen first-hand how neighborhood-level data is increasingly being used for tasks such as identifying community conditions and trends or measuring population-level outcomes in research and evaluation. Recently, I was in a meeting …

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Susan Kistler on Mapping Tools

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor for each Saturday’s aea365 post. This week I’m writing on Thursday and queuing it up for Saturday, anticipating a couple of busy days ahead. I also serve as a houseparent at a small Boarding school on the south coast of Massachusetts, known as “the School by the …

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Tarek Azzam on Free Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

AEA365 began on January 1, 2010. Before we promoted this resource, we reached out to dedicated authors who believed in the project in order to populate the site with starter content. Those who contributed in week 1 wrote for an audience of fewer than 10. One year later we have over 1500 subscribers and are …

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