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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.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.ResourceReporting on outcomes: Setting performance expectations and telling performance stories
This paper by John Mayne provides a practical guide to telling performance stories and setting expectations about what level of performance was expected.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 tablBlogEvaluations that make a difference: Stories from around the world
What is the value of evaluation and can stories provide a good way of communicating evaluation findings?BlogBetterEvaluation FAQ: How can you get stakeholders to articulate how they think a program or project works?
In our last newsletter we drew attention to our method page onBlogThe most significant change: Using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation - insight guide
This article describes experiments done by Insight using participatory video(PV) for monitoring and evaluation, in particular the combination of Most Significant Change (MSC) ideas with PV.ResourcePress release example: Balancing accountability and improvement
This example of a press release discusses the release of a voluntary statewide survey about patients’ experiences with inpatient care at Massachusetts hospitals.ResourceSupporting good evaluation
This presentation and paper from the Bruner Foundation guides the reader through the evaluation process and provides a step by step process for commissioning an evaluation.ResourceCommunicating and reporting on an evaluation
This module helps private voluntary organization staff facilitate learning among individuals, groups, and organizations by communicating and reporting evaluation processes and findings more effectively.ResourceIncreasing participation in evaluation – Bruner Foundation guide
The "Increasing participation in evaluation" bulletin was developed by Anita Baker with Beth Bruner to help organizations integrate evaluative thinking into their organizational practice.ResourceMultimedia project evaluation rubric
This rubric from Teacherworld.com is designed for the evaluation of multimedia projects and it contains eleven criteria, with four grading options.ResourcePurposes of assessment - Keystone guide
This webpage from Keystone Accountability outlines the six major reasons that social organizations monitor, assess and report their performance and results.ResourceImpact evaluation steering committee: Terms of reference
These Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Impact Evaluation Steering Committee for the Research Into Use (RIU) programme outlines the functions, objectives and outputs of the steering committee.ResourceEvaluation in family support services
This online guide, written by Robyn Parker and published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, aims to prompt family support service providers to think carefully and systematically about evaluaResourceDigital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating communities
This book from the Center for Digital Storytelling outlines the philosophy and practice involved with using digital storytelling in a development context.ResourceEvaluations that make a difference
This collection gathers eight stories from around the world about evaluations that have made a difference to the lives of people.ResourceEvaluation reporting: A guide to help ensure use of evaluation findings
This guide addresses the issue of ensuring that evaluation findings are used by stakeholders.ResourceStorytelling
This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on the use of storytelling as a way of effectively communicating both emotional and factual content to contextualise the ideas or experiences being shared.ResourceUsing sensemaker to understand girls' education in Ethiopia
This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education among pastoralist communities in the Afar region of Ethiopia.ResourceUsing SenseMaker in child-centred research
This paper is one of two documents submitted by Becca Smith related to the use of the SenseMaker approach to evaluate attitudes towards girls’ education in Ethiopia.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