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Sheila B. Robinson on Fast, Free, Fun on the Fourth with Word Cloud Generators

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 3, 2015

Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. It’s Independence Day in the US, the anniversary of the day our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain was signed in 1776. As I thought about what topic to tackle for this week’s post, I wondered what insights a word cloud created from the …

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CP TIG Week: Tara Gregory and Bailey Blair on Using Qualitative Data as a Catalyst for Youth Empowerment

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Youth Focused Evaluation / August 26, 2013

We’re Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Bailey Blair, Youth Leadership in Kansas Program Associate, at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR).  CCSR was awarded a grant last year by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide technical assistance and research services to leadership groups for …

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Stacy Carruth on using Wordle to Understand Substance Abuse

4 Comments / Behavioral Health, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 9, 2011

My name is Stacy Carruth and I am a Community Health Specialist at a Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Massachusetts.  Much of the work we do is supporting community coalitions working on substance abuse prevention.  Two communities we work with are funded to reduce fatal and non-fatal opiate overdose, an issue of concern in …

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Susan Kistler on Leaving Wordle for Tagxedo

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 14, 2012

Good Morning! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based …

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Sue Griffey on Wordle

10 Comments / Qualitative Methods / April 29, 2010

I’m Sue Griffey and I direct the Evaluation Center in the Public Health Research group at Social & Scientific Systems. I really like technology and the tools it’s given us – and I am always trying out new things. (I love the EZAnalyze program that Paul Pope blogged about a few days ago.)  So, when …

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Jacquelyn Christensen on Wordle and Survey Anchors

2 Comments / Uncategorized / January 28, 2010

My name is Jacquelyn Christensen and I am an Evaluation Associate at a non-profit mental health agency in Los Angeles, as well as an advanced graduate student in Applied Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. I work closely with my organization to report program outcomes and monitor service quality. When working directly with staff or …

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