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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. I don’t know how to feel when I see “data storytelling”. Being an illustrator, data analyst and designer, I have been asked a time or two to teach a workshop on data storytelling. And I know what the requester is looking for when […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. You already know that images are important. Without visuals there is no way we would be able to process the vast amount of information that we are now exposed to on a daily basis.  An image is a trail marker, a waypoint.  It’s […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. I am writing in response to Chris’ Evaluation as Protest blog. I appreciate the blog’s call to action and hope the examples of concrete actions shared will inspire evaluators to imagine something different and to take action. While reading the blog, I noticed […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Doing something is a good start. But it’s not enough. As evaluators we deal with all sorts of programs and activities that were launched out of a need to do something. Programs that keep on doing something, or something else, or something ineffective, […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. No new cartoons or lengthy blog post this week. Instead I launched a course. It only has one module now, but I have plans for more. And did I mention it was free? Register Here What you will learn Not everything that is […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. This post was originally written by Andrea Guerrero- Guajardo as a direct response to Michael Quinn Patton’s blog post “Rules for Privileged Straight White Males.” It was published to Google Docs on June 6, 2020 as a personal blog post and shared on EvalTalk […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Ahmaud Arbery. Sean Reed. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. When does this racial terror end? For the past three months, our communities have been inundated with painful stories and images of Black people targeted, harassed, arrested, and killed by police and racist vigilantes. […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Post originally published as a collection of 13 evaluation cartoons on March 25, 2014. Updated with way more context on May 27, 2020. When you search “What is Evaluation?” on Google, you get the kinds of responses you might expect. The Wikipedia page…if […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. So I decided to create what I hope will eventually become an ultimate list of evaluation blogs. Not just a boring bullet point list, but one that gives you a sense of the human being on the other side of the internet. This […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Social media is not a monologue. It’s a collection of voices seen (or unseen) based almost entirely on who you do or do not follow. But the world we see is based, as it always has been, on the people that surround us. […]