This cartoon was inspired by John Gargani’s post from earlier this week: Should the Pie Chart Be Retired.
AEA365 is in the middle of their third bloggers week, asking eval bloggers to write posts about their blogs. Several of these blogs should be familiar if you follow Eval Central. I really like what Susan has done with AEA365. It is geared towards a mostly email audience and does not post much in the way of multimedia content. What it does, is effectively act as a connection point for the evaluation community. If you are involved in getting an association blog up and running, it’s a great example.
Problem: You want to create the occasional PDF but don’t have access to adobe pro.
One Solution: CutePDF Writer
I don’t know how many times over the past several years I’ve recommended this little free gem to colleagues. When you install CutePDF it sets itself up as a printer. Then the next time you go to print anything you have the option to print directly into PDF. It works from any application (web browsers, word, excel, etc.), if you can print it you can PDF it.
I had a boss once that whenever you would start talking about numbers her eyes would instantly gloss over. Often I would simplify the discussion, hitting main points and accepting her trust (or fear of data disguised as trust) that I would make the right decisions.
The problem was, sometimes decisions needed to be made and knowing the full context was critical. This is one of the big reasons I am a fan of data visualization. It offers a mechanism to make data approachable without needing to resort to simplification.
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