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A positive spin on failure according to Simon Hearn
Simon Hearn, one of the team of evaluators who put together the 10 things to know about evaluation infographic I mentioned last week, left me a comment on the post. The comment sparked today’s...
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How pictures help you discover the unexpected.
From Nathan Yau in his book Visualize This: Visualization One of the best ways to explore and try to understand a large dataset is with visualization. Place the numbers into a visual space and let...
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The big reason to stop coloring maps
From Let’s Tesselate: Hexagons For Tile Grid Maps by Danny DeBelius of the npr visuals team: As the saying goes, nothing is certain in this life but death, taxes and requests for geographic data to be...
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Letting Pixar’s rules of storytelling influence your reporting.
I really believe that good data visualization, good reporting and good presentations are all about good storytelling. So I tend to search out inspiration from great storytellers. I read the post I...
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Austin Kleon on how to get inspiration to strike.
Austin Kleon was on Kelton Reid’s The Writer Files podcast. He said this when talking about writers block. It sparked today’s cartoon. Problems of output are problems of input.
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Hans Rosling as a performer.
I think we tend to undervalue Hans Rosling as a performer while hyping his data visualization. When you first watched his early *TED talks did you think, “Maybe I should create a bubble chart?” Or did...
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Why you shouldn’t decrease your data-ink ratio.
From Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: A large share of ink on a graphic should present data-information, the ink changing as the data change. Data-ink is the non-erasable...
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Don’t be a qualitative bully.
Today’s cartoon comes from a set I created for Michael Quinn Patton.
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The secret sauce of an RSA Animate.
The secret to a great whiteboard animation is a fantastic talk. It’s not a way to make boring talks interesting, but rather make already great talks spreadable through a new channel. Check out some...
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So as promised, I’ve been focusing a lot of attention on building my creative workshop for data people. But while I haven’t posted here, I’ve still been cartooning. So I thought maybe once a month I...
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Cartooning Evaluation 2015
As in the past several years, I’ll be live cartooning this year’s American Evaluation Association Conference. This post will keep getting updated, so make sure you bookmark it and come back and visit...
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Creating a Visual Interactive Logic Model
A logic model, or theory of change, is one of the most common forms of visualization you’ll find in any evaluation report. They can be critical in helping a program or project think through the...
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The “oh crap, Trump was elected” cartoon post.
I don’t like cartooning politics. So I often don’t. But after this election… Well, let’s just say I needed to draw and post these before I could draw almost anything else. So here goes… Hey Trump...
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The “what is wrong with my report” cartoon post.
Here is a set of cartoons inspired by one of my latest free courses over at diydatadesign (I think the report color scheme one is my favorite). As an FYI, I just made diydatadesign simpler by...
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The “wow it’s already December,” holiday cartoon post
Somehow, I don’t believe I had a holiday cartoon post last year (3 of these cartoons were actually created a year ago). A couple of things before we get into the cartoons. I will have a coupon up for...
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An Evaluation Christmas Carol
Evan Scott’s day started just like most other days. At his desk, staring at a clogged email inbox and a stack of papers filled with things that somehow or another needed his attention. If he had known...
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Does it Work?
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing 10 of the cartoons I created for the Rameses Project on realist evaluation. Visit that site to get access to the full collection. If you’re at all...
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Realist Reviewer
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing 10 of the cartoons I created for the Rameses Project on realist evaluation. Visit that site to get access to the full collection. If you’re at all...
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Show your cards
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing 10 of the cartoons I created for the Rameses Project on realist evaluation. Visit that site to get access to the full collection. If you’re at all...
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