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  • Data visualization checklist

    Stephanie Evergreen (Evergreen Data) and Ann K.
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  • Choosing 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.
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  • Presenting 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.
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  • Knight lab - storytelling tools

    This suite of tools is useful for creating highly interactive, beautiful representations of data.
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  • VUE

    The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application developed to support teaching, learning and research.
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  • Scapple

    Scapple is an easy-to-use tool for getting ideas down as quickly as possible and making connections between them.
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  • Lucidchart

    A cloud-based flow chart maker with a number of usual features, including integration with programs like Visio. Cost: Free, but account required From the website:
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  • TOCO

    Theory of change Online (TOCO) is web-based software (no download required) that you can use to design, edit and store your theory of change.
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  • Dylomo

    Dylomo is a free, web-based tool that can be used to create interactive, online logic models.
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  • Logframer

    Logframer is a free project design and management application based on the logical framework approach (LFA / Logframe).
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  • Big 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.
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  • Discussion 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.
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  • Week 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.
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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 tabl
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  • Miradi

    Miradi is designed to provide project teams with the essential features that they need to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their conservation projects, in other words, to practice good adaptive management.
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  • Theory of change software

    There are a number of options when it comes to using software to help create a logic model.
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  • Evaluation reporting: A guide to help ensure use of evaluation findings

    This guide addresses the issue of ensuring that evaluation findings are used by stakeholders.
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  • From 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.
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  • Theory maker

    This free and open-sourced web-based tool was made by Steve Powell as a quick and simple way of creating a theory of change. The information provided was supplied by Steve Powell.
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