This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. It has always been clear to me: Monitoring and Evaluation depends to a large extent on how development or government programmes are planned and designed. That is why good M&E is strongly linked with good planning and design. In a way, programme design is a natural […]
How Muay Thai Helped Me Re-Think Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I’ve been training in Muay Thai (kickboxing) for a few years. I am always learning something new and being pushed outside of my comfort zone … and I love it. However, I am and have always been a perfectionist. It’s something I’ve struggled […]
10+ Tips from an International Dataviz Speaker
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. I was on a podcast–finally! My friend Jon Schwabish of PolicyViz has asked me to be on his podcast at least ten billion times and I finally agreed. Maybe I was afraid he’d grill me–he did. Maybe I was afraid he’d ask something […]
The Evaluation Mindset: Charting a Course
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Describing how a process works is valuable for two reasons. It forces you to make sure you know how it works. Then it forces you to take the reader through the same sequence of ideas and deductions that made the process clear to […]
‘how do you like to be held accountable?’
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash Do yourself a favour and check out this post from Mariah Brothe Gantz, “The Realm of Possibility in Evaluation”. (And once you’ve clicked through and read it in its entirety, also click through and read all the […]
The Age of Data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. Data, information and knowledge Professional Monitoring and Evaluation is based on hard facts: data, information, knowledge and understanding. Let us take a closer look at these concepts: WHAT IS DATA? As you will know, data is a collection of objective facts, such as numbers, words, […]
Three Ways Intentional Practice Can Support Self-Care
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. In recent years, self-care has emerged as a compelling idea among museum practitioners. The sentiment is that, like so many in the not-for-profit world, museum workers are deeply passionate about the work they do and too often, they are overworked and feel underappreciated […]
How to Enter Cleaner Data AND Automate the Entire Analysis and Visualization Process
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. This is a brand new bonus module for current and past students in my data analysis course, Simple Spreadsheets: From Spreadsheet Stress to Superstardom with Microsoft Excel. The once-a-year registration period is open this week only! Register by Friday, February 28, 2020–or wait ’til next year. […]
The Evaluation Mindset: Actions and Consequences
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. When I started getting into data visualization design, human centered design, and user experience design I had this hope that a better understanding of design methodologies would ultimately help me to become a better evaluator. But I had the causal direction flipped. What […]
Our toolbox for primary data collection
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at winderl.net. To collect primary data (data that we need to collect first ourselves), we can rely on a rather sophisticated tool box– largely from social sciences – that has been developed over decades. There are tools for quantitative and qualitative data collection. Here is a list of some of the […]