Evergreen Data: How to Effectively Present Quotes

When it comes to qualitative data, we have far fewer dataviz tools at our disposal. Another time, promise, we’ll get into word clouds and what Stuart Henderson thinks of them. Today, let’s tackle a more common method of displaying qualitati…

freshspectrum: Cartooning Tom Murphy, 7 illustrations on development

Outside of my 9 to 5, the topic I get asked about the most is social media.  So much so that I’ve started designing and writing a companion blog to this one just to cover the topic.  If you’re interested I’ll have more info about in the next few weeks. My first piece of advice [...]

intelligent measurement: Surveys for communicators

Increasingly communicators need the ability to evaluate their activities – being able to design and set-up online surveys is a key tool for communicators for soliciting feedback and interacting with audiences.  Here are the slides from a practical workshop that I conducted last Friday for the Geneva Communicators Network and covers surveys for communicators from […]

Evergreen Data: Evaluation Swag

Conference season has begun (does it ever really end?) and I’m thinking again about the swag. You know, those freebies given away by vendors or fellow evaluators. I am personally not usually excited about the heaps of easily breakable plastic cra…

Visual Brains: What is Evaluation (infographic)

When I started my master in Program and Policies Evalua [...]

freshspectrum: Randomized Controlled Trials, 5 illustration collaboration with Jen Hamilton

You know what’s great about collaborating with experts? After each post I know a little bit more about the evaluation world. How about you? Have any of my cartoons helped you learn something new? I hope so. About the Illustrations This week’s collaboration is with friend and colleague Jen Hamilton. Jen’s leading a three day [...]

Evergreen Data: Your Brain on Slideshows

Here’s what happens to audience brains when presenters speak while showing text-heavy slides. Their working memory gets overloaded. Working memory is that part of the cognition system where we contemplate information, wrangle with it, try to dige…

Evaluating Effectiveness: SocialMetrics: SumAll

As I have written before, tracking the impact social media has on your company is essential.  Social Media can help engage new clients/participants as well as maintain contact with your existing clients/participants.  However, because social media does not run on a 9-5 schedule it is important to find systems that will have you covered 24/7 …

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freshspectrum: Illustrating Causation, 5 cartoons in collaboration with Jane Davidson

Jane Davidson will be talking causation as part of the BetterEvaluation/AEA coffeebreak webinar series.   If you read this prior to Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 4:00 – 4:20 PM EDT, you can sign up for the free live webinar.  If you get to this after the date, you can go here for an Open to [...]

Visual Brains: A Very Incomplete (yet) Catalogue of Evaluation’s Methodologies

My master in Evaluation is coming to an end, and I&#821 [...]