This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. For a long time, I prioritized program participants, because I thought, without participants there would be no program. Now, drawing on the voices of staff (as well as my personal experiences being on staff) I see the need for more balanced considerations in […]
How to Make Great Graphs in Excel: 4 Levels of Excel Vizardry
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. […]
Information design is not data visualization.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Referring to data visualization as information design is like referring to survey design as evaluation. Yes, evaluators tend to design surveys. But there is way more to being an evaluator than designing a survey. Learning how to be an information designer requires more […]
Take of Tour of the “Excel How-To’s” Templates
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 […]
Ask Nicole: What is a Public Health Social Worker?
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. There are two things I know for sure about social work and public health: One: Social work and public health are naturally complimentary fields, perfect partners in improving community health and wellbeing. […]
New Tip Sheet: Tips for Conducting Interviews
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Eval Academy just released a new Tip Sheet, “Tips for Conducting Interviews” Who’s it for? If you will be conducting interviews in your evaluation, then this tip sheet is for you! Whether you’re new to the process or […]
New Infographic: Qualitative Data Saturation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Eval Academy just released a new infographic, “Qualitative Data Saturation” Who’s it for? This infographic is for those who collect or who will be collecting qualitative data and are looking to support the validity of their results. It’s […]
What you need to know about member checking
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Member checking is a technique often used with qualitative methods to help validate findings. It can be used in evaluation to help validate, interpret, and analyze findings from interviews, focus groups, and other forms of qualitative data. While […]
3 Simple Steps that Took My Graph from Good to Great
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 […]
The lost question.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. What was that thing… I believe it was important. It had something to do with something we didn’t know… I remember being really focused on it. But at some point our conversation switched. Then all of a sudden we weren’t talking about it […]