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Nominal, Sequential, or Diverging? Simple Strategies for Improving Any Chart's Colors
Managing Your Evaluation Reputation [Guest post by Patrick Germain]
Monitor Your Organization’s Revenue and Expenses with a Dashboard in Microsoft Excel
Muted Grid Lines: Small Details, Big Difference
New-ish Charts for Evaluation
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Key Differences between Statistics and Machine Learning
Statistical Concepts used in Data Science
Introduction to Time Series with Python & R (Part - 1)
Introduction to Time Series Components (Part - 2)
A Good Presenter Adds to the Presentation as Opposed to Reading What I Could Read On My Own
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets
How to Adjust Your Bar Chart’s Spacing in Microsoft Excel
Visualizing Survey Results: Crowded Agree-Disagree Scales
Simple Spreadsheets: From Spreadsheet Stress to Superstardom in 12 Weeks
Avoiding Diagonal Text in Your Charts
The Graph's Scale: Actual Maximum Value or Potential Maximum Value?
Dataviz Challenge #2: Can You Make a Basic Bar Chart?
Dataviz Challenge #2: How to Make a Basic Bar Chart
The Best Visualization Tool of All Time
Building a PowerPoint Isn't the Same as Building a Presentation
But clients like to read my PowerPoints on their laptop when they're in bed…
Visualizing Survey Results: Check-All-That-Apply Questions
The Data Visualization Checklist, 2016 Edition
Learning Evaluation through Apprenticeships
Dataviz Challenge #1: Can You Make a Circle Chart in Excel?
Dataviz Challenge #1: How to Make a Circle Chart in Excel
Alternatives to the Clustered Bar Chart
Color-Coding to Make Dense Information Feel Less Complicated
How to Adjust Your Column Chart’s Spacing in Excel
The Complete Listing of Data Visualization Conferences
Building an Evaluation Culture with Top Ten Lists [Guest post by Corey Newhouse]
Could Your Long Report become a City Billboard? Use Data Viz Techniques to Create High-Impact Materials
How to Find Your Custom Color Codes with a Style Guide (and Decode the Jargon)
How to Find Your Custom Color Codes with an Eyedropper
How to Find Your Custom Color Codes with Paint
How to Quickly Visualize Patterns with Excel's Data Bars
From Data Table to Small Multiples in Under Five Minutes
The Data Visualization Design Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Introducing the Data Visualization Checklist
How Many Decimal Places Are Helpful?
Dataviz Challenge #5: Can You Make a Diverging Stacked Bar Chart?
Dataviz Challenge #5: How to Make a Diverging Stacked Bar Chart in Excel
Removing the Double Y Axis
This is What Equidistant Axis Labels Look Like
Cast Your Vote: Which Evaluation Standard is Most Essential?
Top Tips for the Evaluators of Tomorrow
Facilitating Focus Groups vs. Facilitating Other Types of Group Discussions
My Favorite Source for State Icons to Use in Data Visualizations
How to Format Months, Days, and Years in Excel
Making Evaluation Happen When you are not in the Room: Part 2: Engaging People
Making Evaluation Happen When you are not in the Room: Part 1, Starting From Scratch
Making Evaluation Happen When you are not in the Room: Part 3, Engaging Systems
Getting the Resources You Need for Evaluation [Guest post by Patrick Germain]
Giving Your Tableau Visualizations a Makeover: Custom Colors
Giving Your Tableau Visualizations a Makeover: Custom Fonts
Enjoy some haikus. / Isn't evaluation / Serious enough?
What Type of Handouts Will Accompany Your Presentation?
Traditional Table for the Report, Heat Table for the Presentation
Home Visiting Dataviz: Three Steps to Making a Good Graph Great
How can findings influence decision-making? [Guest post by Jonathan O'Reilly]
How can you help people when they are afraid? [Guest post by Elizabeth Silverstein]
How Much "Evidence" Does It Take to Convince an Evaluator?
Are Evaluators Responsible for Making Sure that Results Get Used to Improve Programs?
How to Adjust Your Data Communications Approach in University and Non-University Settings
How to Enter Your Custom Color Codes in Microsoft Excel
How to Place Labels Directly Through Your Line Graph in Microsoft Excel
How to Rotate Horizontal Bar Charts into Vertical Column Charts (and Vice Versa)
How to Save Time and Energy by Analyzing Your Data with Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel
How to Sketch, Doodle, and Draw Data Visualization Drafts by Hand
How to Tell a Story with Data: Titles, Subtitles, Annotations, Dark/Light Contrast, and Selective Labeling
How to Transform a Table of Data into a Chart: Four Charts with Four Different Stories
A Two-Hour Turnaround: How to Transform a Text-Heavy Report into a Visual-Lite Report
How to Visualize Age/Sex Patterns with Population Pyramids in Tableau
How to Visualize Demographic Data: From Boring Bullet Points into Great Graphs
How to Write Your Reports in PowerPoint Instead of Word: Nine Tips for Getting Started
I Present Today, but I Lost My Voice! What Do I Do?
I've Been an Evaluator for 20 Years, and I Still Have No Idea What Evaluation Theory Is…
Behind the Scenes: TechnoServe’s 2016 Impact Report
Great Graphs: 20 Hours of Data Visualization Lessons over 12 Months with 14 Instructors
Introducing the Essentials, a Chart Choosing Tool
Exploring the Non-Profit Paradox – Evaluation and Non-Profits
A Few Things I Wish I Knew About Evaluation Before I Jumped in Head First…
The Best Ignite Presentations are when the Presenter Stumbles Over Words
Axis Labels, Numeric Labels, or Both? Line Graph Styles to Consider
Removing Graph Clutter: Don't Forget the Leader Lines
How to Objectively Measure Text Readability (and Lower Your Graph’s Reading Level)
How to Make a Social Network Map with NodeXL
Students Receiving Free and Reduced Meals: From Nested Donuts to an Icon Array
No Shame, No Blame: Laugh at Your Past Data Visualization Mistakes, and Then Move On
The Conference is Over, Now What? Professional Development for Novice Evaluators
Let Spreadsheets Do the Heavy Lifting: Number Formatting Tips
Pivot Tables: Your Tool for Exposing Miscreant Data
Pie Chart Makeover: Transforming a Research Report
Pie Chart Makeover: Quarterly Breakouts by Gender
Potent Presentation Advice: Don't Be Afraid to Move Around a Little!
We are Seeing the Same Thing: Potent Presenters Connect with Their Audience
Preempting Conflict in Evaluation [Guest post by Patrick Germain]
From Geek to Chic: The Progression of an Infographic
Six Reasons You Need Good Visuals in Your Presentations
How to Categorize Values in Your Dataset with If and Vlookup in Microsoft Excel
Removing Redundancies from My Old Graphs
Reenvisioning a University’s Annual Report with Saturation, Annotations, and Icons
Researchers vs. Evaluators: How Much Do We Have in Common?
Behind the Scenes: TechnoServe’s Results Portal
Revamping a Tired Data Table: A ‘Before’ and ‘After’ Reveal
Seven Tips for Formatting Tableau Dashboards: What We’ve Learned from Designing Dashboards at NASAA
Shortcuts for Formatting Peoples’ Names in Your Excel Spreadsheets
Should Evaluators Share Statistical Results During Evaluation Conferences?
Dataviz Challenge #3: Can You Make a Side by Side Bar Chart?
Dataviz Challenge #3: Alternate Solution by Paul Denninger
Dataviz Challenge #3: How to Make a Side by Side Bar Chart in Excel
The Simplification & Emphasis Approach to Editing Graphs
Dataviz Challenge #4: Can You Make a Small Multiples Bar Chart?
Dataviz Challenge #4: How to Make a Small Multiples Bar Chart in Excel
Soar Beyond the Dusty Shelf Report: New Online Course
Span Charts: When You've Only Got the Min and Max
How to Visualize Statistically Significant P-Values with Squares
Who Knew Data Visualization Could Be So Easy?
Stop Making People Read Across Multiple Pie Charts (& Here’s What to Do Instead)
How to Present Data When You’re Presenting: Storyboarding Your Data Visualizations in Videos, Webinars, Presentations, and More
The Evaluation Mentor: A Wish List [Guest post by Katie Aasland]
The Future of Data Visualization: Predictions for 2019 and Beyond
How to Transform Your Slideshow’s Bullet Points into Images
What are the Trends in Nonprofit Evaluation?
Dataviz Challenge #6: Can You Make a Unit Chart?
How to Visualize Age/Sex Patterns with Population Pyramids in Microsoft Excel
How to Visualize Pre/Post Survey Results in Microsoft Excel
Visualizing Your Annual Survey Results: Four Makeovers That Didn’t Work, and the Fifth That Did
How to Visually Structure Your Presentation Around Key Points
Wait, You Forgot to Open Up Your PowerPoint! Is Your Audience Ready for a Slide-Free Presentation?
The Webinar Command Center: Give Better Webinars by Organizing Your Physical Space
What Are You Really Trying to Communicate With Your Presentation?
What Does Capacity-Building Look Like on a Day-To-Day Basis? Part 2
What Does Capacity-Building Look Like on a Day-to-Day Basis?
What Does It Mean to Have an Organizational Culture of Learning?
When building a logic model, how important is formatting?
When Pie Charts Are Okay (Seriously): Guidelines for Using Pie and Donut Charts
When to Use Horizontal Bar Charts vs. Vertical Column Charts
Work Smarter, Not Harder, When Visualizing Data [Guest Post by Esther C. Nolton]
How to Visualize Workshop Evaluation Results
It’s Not You, It’s Me: When You Realize Your Reports, Not Your Readers, Are the Problem
A Visual Guide to Analytics, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, and AI
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