This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: Creating clean and consistent charts does not need to be complicated or time-consuming. With some forethought and a style guide, you can draft templates for all your charting needs. Chart templates will alleviate the pains of trying to […]
Designing Powerful Gatherings for Impact
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. There is an art to creating a great gathering. There is also a science of sorts. We create great gatherings by design — meaning we take the principles of great service design and apply them to an event. Whether it is a board […]
Evaluation Christmas Cartoons 2022
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Every holiday season I try to draw a set of Christmas comics. For whatever reason, it was harder this year. SIMON: Do you still pick up the pen? SPIEGELMAN: I pick it up, but it’s a very heavy instrument right now. And I’ve […]
Top 22 Dataviz Resources of 2022
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. 7,700 total participants in my dataviz courses so far. 29 new blog posts: 20 from me, and 9 from guest authors. 6 YouTube videos: 4 on my channel, and 2 made for colleagues’ channels. Just 1 podcast interview this year. 3 months off. What a year. Top […]
De lo individual a lo colectivo
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. Fuente Dicen que se puede desarrollar una cultura de colaboración masiva, simplemente dándo a nuestros departamentos/silos organizacionales, desafíos colectivos que cada grupo/silo no podría resolver por sí mismos. Me contaron un paso simple, con un resultado masivamente poderoso. La forma de romper los silos es […]
No More Writing for Google
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. In today’s post I talk about an upcoming change to how I blog and why writing for Google works, but for me, shouldn’t be the point. It works. But that’s the problem. There is pretty simple logic behind writing for Google. People use […]
Eval Academy’s Top 10 Posts of 2022
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. To celebrate the end of the year, we thought we’d highlight Eval Academy’s top ten posts from 2022. What posts or resources would you like to see in 2023? Comment below, tweet us @EvalAcademy or connect with us on LinkedIn! 10. Differences between […]
How I Took 3 Months Off Work
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. “Are you going to write a blog post about taking 3 months off??” a colleague asked me. “I wasn’t planning on it. I wanted to take off the summer to be with my kids, so I did. I didn’t do anything profound.” “But […]
Alt Text in Canva – finding a workaround
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. How do you add alt text in Canva? Short answer, you don’t (Canva doesn’t have that feature). Long answer, read on for a workaround. As much as I love Canva for creating infographics and micrographics, as a website publishing tool (and a PDF […]
How to Use Gray Dashes Instead of Zeros in Tables
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Ready to fine-tune your tables? Here’s one of my favorite table decluttering tips: Change the black zeros into gray dashes—with formulas and conditional formatting. Before: Zeros in Black Does your table have lots of zeros? Sometimes my tables have huge values—numbers, percentages, or […]