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August 25, 2016: CFB 2359 Using Modern Visualization Tools to Aid in the Evaluation Process - Ted Corbett
As a requested follow-up from the 2015 AEA conference in Chicago, Ted Corbett will lead a lunch session on the use of modern visualization tools for use in the evaluation process. Organizations of all shapes and sizes struggle with easy ways to turn a growing sea of data into actionable information. This presentation will highlight how the use of data visualization tools, such as Tableau, help a variety of organizations better view data to ask new questions, dive deeper into analyses and help drive policy changes. Ted’s presentation will focus on data used to support homelessness efforts in Seattle area.
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April 28, 2016: CFB 243: Designing a Visual Evaluation Report - Angelina Lopez
Too often evaluation findings presented in traditional, long-form reports go unused or are misapplied because they are not designed for the end-user. Alternative reporting formats, including Slidedocs™ and visual reports, are pushing evaluators to rethink how findings are shared with different audiences. In this AEA Coffee Break, presenter Angelina Lopez will demonstrate how to create a visual report template using MS PowerPoint™, and will share how to apply information design principles for effectively presenting information and content.
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March 3, 2016: CFB 238: Visualizing Qualitative Evaluation Data - Melissa Howlett & Sara Afflerback
Amidst growing interest in data visualization in the evaluation field, there is appetite for understanding how visualization techniques can be applied to data stemming from qualitative or mixed methods evaluations. Though inherently different and more difficult than visualizing quantitative data, visualizing qualitative data is similarly essential to communicating evaluation data and findings to clients, partners, and beneficiaries. It can help turn what may be exhaustive, even overwhelming, data into something more accessible and digestible. This AEA Coffee Break Demonstration will offer various techniques for visualizing qualitative data.
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September 17, 2015, CFB 226: Slide Clinic Part 4 of 4: Delivery Tips for Evaluators - Stephanie Evergreen & Ann K. Emery
The final webinar in this four-part series on presentations will address how to address. In other words, the presenters will talk about how to talk. This webinar is all about presentation delivery. It’s one thing to have a solid message and great slides but it’s really something else to get up in front of peers and deliver a talk. Ann Emery and Stephanie Evergreen will teach you how to prepare to deliver a talk and how to handle things that come up during the talk to ensure the smoothest delivery. You’ll learn tips for starting your presentation with a bang, sustaining your audience’s interest throughout your entire talk, and handling audience questions during and after your presentation. The presenters will point to specific tools to support your conference presentation delivery.
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September 3, 2015, CFB 224: Slide Clinic Part 3 of 4: Chart Redesigns for Evaluators - Stephanie Evergreen & Ann K. Emery
Stephanie Evergreen and Ann Emery will show you how to best present graphs and tables in your annual conference presentation. The webinar will pull lessons from the redesign experiences of AEA members participating in the DVRTIG and p2i Slide Clinic, where they received individualized coaching on presentation materials that feature charts and graphs. The presenters will detail best practices for chart-within-slide design using AEA member materials as examples. You’ll learn practical guidelines, like how many graphs can really fit on one slide, which font size is needed for those audience members sitting in the back row of your presentation, how to select the correct chart type for your dataset, and tips for selecting colors that will make your key findings stand out. You’ll leave with pointed advice that can be used to prepare your own annual conference presentations.
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August 20, 2015, CFB 222: Slide Clinic Part 2 of 4: Slide Redesigns for Evaluators - Stephanie Evergreen & Ann K. Emery
Ann Emery and Stephanie Evergreen will showcase real AEA member slides, redesigned. The presenters will feature the work of AEA members who participated in Part 1 of the DVRTIG & p2i Slide Clinic. As the webinar presenters walk through how AEA members reworked their existing slides, you’ll learn what makes the redesign so much better--from incorporating high-quality images, to reducing clutter, to emphasis colors. Audience members will be able to transfer the design lessons to their own conference presentations.
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August 6, 2015, CFB 221: Slide Clinic Part 1 of 4: Presentation Tips for Evaluators - Stephanie Evergreen & Ann K. Emery
Our four-part webinar series will highlight message, design, and delivery tips guaranteed to make your conference presentation shine. Preparing a presentation takes time, with the majority of it being spent in the message stage. Join Stephanie Evergreen and Ann Emery for lightning fast advice on how to hone the message of your presentation and structure your session so that you can connect with the audience. Pulling from p2i tools and loads of personal experience, the webinar will highlight what should be done now to prepare for the November conference, like tailoring your presentation to the conference audience, outlining the presentation around key points, planning activities, preparing bonus content, anticipating audience questions, and infusing stories. The webinar will conclude with information on how to get free individualized presentation coaching for AEA members.
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July 23, 2015, CFB 219: From Pencil to Pixels: Keys to successful data dashboard design-build - Veronica Smith
Data dashboards are becoming commonplace in the practice of monitoring and evaluation. Designed and built well, a dashboard can be a powerful data visualization and communication tool for tracking progress against goals. Unfortunately, there are many dashboards being used that get in the way of making evidence-based decisions. While there are all sorts of software tools available to create any kind of data display imaginable, designing and building a data dashboard that effectively supports shared measurement of progress against objectives at a glance remains a challenge. Veronica Smith, data scientist and dashboarding expert, will review 3 critical steps to dashboarding design-build success: 1) Select the right type of data display for each measure; 2) Step away from the computer: Sketch your dashboard design; and 3) Use a measures gallery to build stakeholder buy-in and increase dashboard use. This webinar draws from Ms. Smith’s AEA full-day workshop on the same topic and her chapter on the data dashboard as an evaluation and communication tool in New Directions for Evaluation (Winter 2014).
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January 29, 2015: CFB 200: Time-Saving Tips and Tricks for Low-Cost Data Visualization - Jessica Aungst Weitzel
Are you interested in data visualization and reporting but concerned you don’t have the skills, tools, or time to implement best practices? Are you worried that it would take too much time or cost too much to do this is in report after report? It may not be as challenging as you think. After sharing data visualization and reporting best practice resources, the presenter will focus on how to set up styles and templates in Word and Excel so that you can stop redoing the same formatting over and over across reports and graphics. These practical tips and tricks will help you easily produce evaluation products that follow best practices without breaking your budget or duplicating basic efforts.
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January 22, 2015: CFB 199 - Data Placemats: A Dataviz Technique to Improve Stakeholder Understanding of Evaluation Results - Veena Pankaj
As evaluators we understand the importance of participatory evaluation and its connection to evaluation use. A data placemat is a tool that can be used to communicate preliminary evaluation results before writing the final report. They are usually used in the analysis phase of the evaluation lifecycle and offer stakeholders an opportunity to form their own judgments about the data and weigh in, prior to the writing of the final report. This coffee break webinar will provide an overview of the different steps involved in creating and implementing data placemats.
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August 14, 2014: CBD188 - Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Literature Reviews? Using Data Visualization with Narrative Reviews of Literature - Jack Scott
We live in an age where the amount of information available to us is accelerating at an ever faster pace. The traditional narrative literature review remains a valuable tool for filtering and summarizing relevant research information on a carefully defined topic. But the available time we have to absorb this information is shrinking. Data visualization is one way to make this knowledge transfer process more efficient. This presentation explores a few of the capabilities of the data visualization tool INSPIRE in the context of an actual literature review we conducted that examined the past ten years’ of research on science communication.
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August 4, 2014: CBD187 - Interactive Data Visualization - Chris Lysy
The context for a single measure lives in disaggregated data. Yet with standard reporting techniques this context is often undeliverable to large audiences. This presentation will provide a visual story on the creation of an interactive tool in Tableau designed to deliver context. It will touch on the differences between static visuals and interactives while discussing an approach grounded in Ben Shneiderman’s visual information seeking mantra.
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April 17, 2014: CBD177 - Data Visualization in Executive Summaries - Nate Wilairat
Nate Wilairat, Senior Consultant at EMI Consulting, will demonstrate how to visualize findings in executive summaries. Nate found that separating analysis and interpretation in the summaries was a key aspect of meeting the needs of executives. He will cover two types of useful visualizations: 1) Annotated dashboards - Dashboards with explanations, and 2) Matrices - Plotting your findings.
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January 30, 2014: CBD169 - Visualizing Process: How to Create a Stakeholder-friendly Graphic Timeline of Process Data - Artineh Samkian & Joelle Greene
Have you ever wondered how to report the implementation process of a program or effort in a more visually engaging way? Artineh and Joelle will discuss how process data can be displayed in a stakeholder-friendly graphic timeline, which is an efficient and creative way to report on rich qualitative data in a visually appealing format.
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August 1, 2013: CBD152 - Using Piktochart to Create Infographics for Evaluation - Jessica Weitzel
As evaluators, we strive to clearly communicate dense information in a way that people can comprehend. Infographics are one way to do this. While there are various tools for creating infographics, many have a steep learning curve or are expensive. We have had success using Piktochart, an affordable, user-friendly online platform, to communicate evaluation findings. In this webinar, we will provide an overview of Piktochart, share best practices, and discuss limitations to the platform so that others can decide if Piktochart would be useful for their purposes.
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February 14, 2013:CBD127 -Easily Present Your Data: Automating the Transfer of Excel Charts to PowerPoint - Jennifer Bain
This Coffee Break webinar will explain how to automate the process of transferring Excel charts to a PowerPoint presentation in seconds rather than tediously copying, pasting, and re-aligning each chart individually to its own slide. The presenter will explain how to add already-written VBA code to the user’s personal Excel workbook – making the code available to any open worksheet – that pulls all of the Excel charts from a worksheet and adds them to a PowerPoint presentation, one chart to a slide, resized and aligned to be centered on the slide. In addition, the presenter will explain how to add a shortcut to the Excel ribbon so that this process and all other macros can be run at the click of a button.
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