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  • Data visualization checklist

    Stephanie Evergreen (Evergreen Data) and Ann K.
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  • Information is Beautiful

    Created by David McCandless, a London-based data journalist and information designer, Information is Beautiful is a team of data viz enthusiasts who create visualisations of complex data, packaging it into beautiful, interesting an
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  • Rule of Thirds Template for Slide Layout

    This blog post by Stephanie Evergreen of Evergreen Data illustrates how to take the classic photography compositional 'rule of thirds' and apply it to the creation of visually powerful slides.
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  • Jason Davies data viz examples

    Jason Davies' website contains a large number of data viz examples, particular around geo data. It also contains some links to to tools, including a word cloud and tree map.
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  • What 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.
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  • Evergreen 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.
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  • Qualitative chart chooser 3.0

    Qualitative Chart Chooser 3.0 is an updated version of Stephanie Evergreen and Jennifer Lyons attempt to organise different ways to show qualitative data.
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  • Coolors

    Coolors is a colour palette generator.
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  • 10 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).
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  • The data visualization design process: A step-by-step guide for beginners

    This online guide by Ann K. Emery walks user through the full process of creating a data visualisation, from understanding your audience, through to sharing your dataviz.
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  • UNEG 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.
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  • UNICEF: Statistics and Monitoring

    In collaboration with a wide range of partners, UNICEF gathers evidence on the situation of children and women around the world.
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  • WISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education

    WISE's website organises a large amount of statistics resources available on the web into one central place.
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  • Excel for evaluation

    This website, created by Ann Emery, provides a series of short videos on using Microsoft Excel to analyze data.
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  • The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)

    This slide show provides an overview of this option and lists the advantages and disadvantages of its use. There are also a number of examples of covariance and linear regression equations. 
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  • Week 13: Producing engaging and accessible evaluation reports

    This week we start the first in an ongoing series of Real-Time Evaluation Queries, where BetterEvaluation members ask for advice and assistance with something they are working on, together we suggest some strategies and useful resources - a
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  • Week 15: Fitting reporting methods to evaluation findings – and audiences

    This week we're sharing some ideas from Rakesh Mohan on ways of making evaluation reports more interesting. 
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  • Week 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 effectively,
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  • Three 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 table int
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  • Editing reports for an audience

    Evaluation reporting is important.
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  • Talking about visuals: A discussion with graphic recorder Katherine Haugh

    Often referred to as 'visual note-taking', graphic recording is a method that merges data collection and reporting to create a visual record of a discussion.
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  • L’évaluation en contexte de développement

    Ce manuel est destiné aux personnes souhaitant s’initier à l’évaluation de programmes, en particulier en contexte de développement et de coopération internationale. À cet égard, tout en déroulant le fil d’une démarche évaluative classique, il présente…
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  • Revised 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.
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  • Digital dividends in natural resource management

    The report sets out research findings on the "digital dividends" of various types of technology on natural resource management in low and middle-income countries.
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  • Ushahidi

    Ushahidi is an open-source mapping and crowdsourcing tool that can be used by organizations to collect, manage and analyse crowdsourced info.
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  • Descriptive and multivariate statistics

    In this chapter from Exploring Crime Analysis Readings on Essential Skills, the key principles of descriptive and multivariate statistics are demonstrated so as to provide practitioners with the basic foundations of research
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  • AEA 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."
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  • Infographics

    An infographic (short for 'information graphic') represents data visually so that the information is able to be quickly and easily understood.
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  • Graphic recording

    Graphic recording is the translation of conversations into images and text on large sheets of paper during meetings and events.
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  • Evaluation 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.
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  • Frequency distribution tables

    This webpage from Statistics Canada demonstrates how to construct four different types of frequency distribution tables. Each example comes with clear instructions and a detailed example of the final product.
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  • How 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. 
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