This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: This is an accompanying piece to our Data Visualization Applications: Bar Charts tutorial. While the standard bar chart is one of the simplest and most effective data visualizations, we sometimes want alternatives to freshen up our […]
Power Query for Data Preparation in Excel: An Introduction and Walk-Through for Beginners
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Introduction If you’ve ever needed to analyze primary quantitative data yourself, you may know that a lot of the process is not spent on the analysis itself, but on preparing your data for analysis. Data preparation is […]
How to Visualize Confidence Intervals in Presentation Slides
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Do you need to share statistics in presentations? Maybe you’re getting ready for a talk at a conference. Or, maybe you’re sharing updates with coworkers in a staff meeting. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to explain dense graphs one slide at […]
Cartoon Infographic: Inside Big Bird
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Comics can really make great infographics. Today’s inspiration was found in the book, Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal. About the Infographic This is a comic drawn by Caroll Spinney, the performer of Big Bird, as a holiday greeting to his friends. It’s […]
Conflict in Israel & Gaza by the numbers
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. What happened in Israel on October 7, 2023 was an inexcusable terror attack, as is the current hostage situation. What is currently happening in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis, or rather, a continuation/escalation of a humanitarian crisis. Both things can be true. The […]
How to Visualize Small n’s with Icon Arrays
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. I was recently working with an online course student to visualize data for her country’s government officials. These aren’t her real categories or real numbers, but you get the idea. Before: Reading Numbers Her “before” version looked something like this: She had small […]
Halloween Evaluation Comics 2023
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Time for yet another halloween evaluation comic post. Which is your favorite? Let me know in the comments. Scope Creep This one inspired by Kasey Valente. Halloween comic idea- something to do with “scope creep”…. I was writing about scope creep this week and […]
Use Icons to Visualize Data, Not Just Decorate
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Something wonderful — and terrible — has started happening. Researchers, evaluators, and scientists complete my online courses. Or they bring me in for private workshops. And they start applying what they learned. GREAT!!! But it’s a little off. OOPS. This is entirely my […]
The 3 things you need to become a better data designer (not one is about tech).
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Do you want to improve your data visualization design and reporting skills? Stop worrying about technology. The technology part of data visualization design has gotten easier and easier over the 15 years I’ve been designing and teaching design. If you are driven, with […]
Ask Nicole: Partnering with Other Consultants
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. During a recent partnership experience, a consulting organization contacted me to gauge my interest in developing a proposal for a multi-year project for a funder. I’d had a conversation with one of […]