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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Hello. I am Barbara Klugman, strategy and evaluation practitioner based in Cape Town, South Africa. Under the guidance of the inestimable Ann Emery’s “Report Redesign” course, I had a go at making the contents page of a previous evaluation report meaningful. Here are […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Wake up without an alarm…  Exercise, eat breakfast with the family, work on energizing projects for a few hours…  … and then call it a day.  Take the kids to gymnastics. Volunteer at field day. Take off the entire summer for bucket list […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. In May 2023, I led a 45-minute session at Good Tech Fest about using pivot tables to analyze a dataset from start to finish. The conference recording wasn’t perfect — I got kicked out of the conference session midway, and again towards the […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Did you know… that I teach six different classes? All of these classes fall under the broad data communications umbrella. One class focuses on data analysis (cleaning and tabulating our raw datasets to get them ready for graphs). Two classes focus on core […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Visualizing data in charts, graphs, dashboards, and infographics is one of the most powerful strategies for getting your numbers out of your spreadsheets and into real-world conversations. But it can be overwhelming to get started with data visualization. Does data visualization leave you […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Last month, I participated in Stefanie Posavec’s Dataviz Drawing Class. I LOVED the class! Wondering whether the class is right for you? What’s inside this review: Class logistics Why I signed up About the instructor What we learned Who this class is best […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Are you drowning in the deep end of Excel? First, dip a toe in. And then another. You’ll be swimming confidently before you know it. 4 Levels of Excel Vizardry I’ve taught data visualization in Excel a dozen different ways over the years. […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Remember those “Excel for Dummies” books? I’d go to the public library, grab a dog-eared book off the shelf, and flip through the grayscale images trying to match the author’s screenshots to my own computer. They were always using a different version of […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. After enrolling in Depict Data Studio’s Great Graphs in Excel course and watching many of the videos, I was excited to apply what I had learned. My first chance came in the form of a front-end evaluation project for a children’s museum planning […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Bored of the basics? Want to take your graphs to the next level? Wondering what’s possible in Microsoft Excel? From A to Z, here are some of the amazing data visualizations that you can make inside of good ol’ Excel. Area Bars Bar’c […]