Dissemination that Actually Works
I was leafing through the house republican budget the other day, it is chock full of charts. Lots of examples of how to visualize political bunk. One of the first charts seemed a little silly, so I …
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OK, so you turned in a proposal or two last Friday for Eval 2012 and now you wait to find out if you will make that list of presenters. While you wait, why not start a blog? Before you make your …
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Application Programming Interfaces will become increasingly more important to research and evaluation as the years go on. But, if you're like many of my colleagues, chances are you don't know …
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Just because a stat or "fact" is widely presented, and fits well in your story, doesn't make it true. With all the Kony 2012 and Mike Daisey talk I keep seeing this argument for popular …
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This American Life retracted a very powerful and moving story about Apple in China. It appears as though Mike Daisey took a hefty amount of creative license in his story. I appreciate creative …
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How many reports and data sets are made public, never to be seen or heard from again? Far fewer are made PUBLIC where they are sure to be seen. …
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How many great ideas never make it out of your head? …
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My daughter's pediatrician visits in her first couple of years would always start the same way. We would fill out a checklist, or answer questions from a nurse, to determine if our daughter was …
As long as you make your point, and don't completely distort the data, does it matter that your data visualization is setup to be fun and not focused solely on reader comprehension? …
