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Stephanie Evergreen (Evergreen Data) and Ann K.ResourceChoosing visual properties for successful visualizations
This whitepaper, by Noah Iliinsky, IBM Visualisation Expert, covers the various visual properties of data visualisation and how to appropriately apply them to various types of data.ResourcePresenting data effectively: Communicating your findings for maximum impact
This book, authored by Stephanie Evergreen, outlines a step-by-step process for enhancing the presentation of data in reports to increase its effectiveness.ResourceWhat is a Dashboard? Defining dashboards, visual analysis tools and other data presentation media
The Dashboard Insight website contains a number of useful articles, examples and guides on the subject of Organizational Dashboards.ResourceData dashboard as evaluation and research communication tool
This chapter by Veronica Smith aims to provide a sound framework and guidelines for evaluators, researchers, and program staff to design, develop, maintain, and use a data dashboard as an effective communication tool for monitoring progressResourceEvergreen Data
Stephanie Evergreen's website and blog provides ample reading and guidance on data visualization techniques, taking a research-based approach to effective communication of ideas.ResourceHow to Design Effective Dashboards
This one-hour webinar on How to Design Effective Dashboards from Infragistics aims to show viewers how to design dashboards that will help with business decisions.ResourceThe Complete Beginner’s Guide to Dashboard Design
This blog post by Abjhijit Rawool gives guidance on creating dashboards that are based around the users' needs. Though discussed in relation to web applications, the lessons are applicable more broadly.Resource10 Techniques for building a google sheets dashboard
This is a step-by-step guide for creating a dashboard with Google Sheets (a free, online spreadsheet application).ResourceUNEG norms and standards for evaluation (2016)
The updated 2016 UNEG Norms and Standards for Evaluation, a UNEG foundational document, is intended for application for all United Nations’ evaluations.ResourceKnight lab - storytelling tools
This suite of tools is useful for creating highly interactive, beautiful representations of data.ResourceBig data visualization: review of the 20 best tools
This webpage provides a list of useful tools for visualising data sets for those with and without coding skills.ResourceDiscussion Paper: Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation
This discussion paper produced by the United Nations Development Programme discusses various innovations that are occurring in M&E, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.ResourceWeek 30: Presenting data effectively
Last week I was lucky enough to be involved in a series of workshops by Stephanie Evergreen on presenting data effectively.BlogWeek 42: Dot plots, bullet charts, slopegraphs and more. We've updated our visualise data section!
Following up from Stephanie Evergreen's seminar on Presenting data effectivelyBlogThree ways to improve your DataViz
If you’re like me, you think you’ve got a pretty good handle on data visualisation – you know how to make basic customisations to graphs in Excel, you know you should probably think carefully about whether or not to put that large tablBlogRevised site-visit standards: A quality-assurance framework
Michael Quinn Patton provides a revised framework for site-visit standards to distinguish between those that provide minimal quality control and those that might ensure excellence.ResourceAEA statement on cultural competence in evaluation
"This statement of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) affirms the significance of cultural competence in evaluation. It also informs the public of AEA’s expectations concerning cultural competence in the conduct of evaluation."ResourceData dashboard
Stephen Few defines a dashboard as: "A data dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, with the data consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the informaMethodEvaluation standards for Latin America and the Caribbean
The evaluation standards for Latin America and the Caribbean were developed by a working group of the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization (ReLAC), with support from DEval’s evaluation capacityResourceDiretrizes de Avaliação para a América Latina e o Caribe
Uma iniciativa da Rede de Monitoramento, Avaliação e Sistematização da América Latina e Caribe (ReLAC), em colaboração com DEval- FOCELAC+.ResourceEstándares de Evaluación para América Latina y el Caribe
Una iniciativa de la Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización de América Latina y el Caribe (ReLAC), con el apoyo de DEval- FOCELAC+.ResourceEvaluation standards for Aotearoa New Zealand
ANZEA (Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association) has worked in partnership with SuPERU to develop a set of Aotearoa-specific Evaluation Standards that set out the expectations of the evaluation process, practices and products.ResourceHow well do we evaluate evaluation?
Part of our commitment to better evaluation is making sure that evaluation itself is evaluated better. Like any intervention, evaluations can be evaluated in different ways.BlogEvaluation reporting: A guide to help ensure use of evaluation findings
This guide addresses the issue of ensuring that evaluation findings are used by stakeholders.ResourceJoint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE) program evaluation standards in practice
This resource provides a practical guide for evaluators to apply the Program Evaluation Standards developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE)ResourceFrom narrative text to causal maps: QuIP analysis and visualisation
This paper focuses on analysing raw data to produce useful visual summaries, describing in detail the processes involved in a QuIP analysis.Resource