Visual Brains: Logic framework
Originally posted at Visual Brains So this is another of the uses you can give visualization in Evaluation. Logic frames matrix from logic frame approach are already quite “visual”, in the sense that...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Data Protection Law
Originally posted at Visual Brains I really appreciate information displays where a lot of data is included, but you can visually easily aprehend the message. That is why I specially recomend using...
View ArticleVisual Brains: My sister’s Visual CV
Originally posted at Visual Brains Well, we know it’s a bit too packed, but she has done some many things just yet, we don’t know how to reduce it. Besides, she has never used it officially, so, for...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Defining Evaluation
Originally posted at Visual Brains When I started my master in Program and Policies Evaluation in october 2012, I challenged myself to try to do all my homework and assigments in some friendly visual...
View ArticleVisual Brains: History of Evaluation
Originally posted at Visual Brains Another of my assigments of my master in Evaluation was to try to figure out the history of this discipline. It was quite difficult for me, since it was the beginning...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Programming with vouchers
Originally posted at Visual Brains After having worked in Developmental projects and organisations, I think focusing on Livelihoods may be one of the best strategies to try to help people in...
View ArticleVisual Brains: My favorite Data-Journalism teachers (I)
Originally posted at Visual Brains I’m gonna begin by a little series of people who first inspire me to dig into the visualisation world. First of all, I must mention Alberto Cairo, from whom I just...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Logic model
Originally posted at Visual Brains Systemic representation of a program in a personnal view of a logic model As I’m completing my master degree in “Programs and Policies Evaluation” and we were asked...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Very complete summary of Visual resources (by Visual Literacy)
Originally posted at Visual Brains This is a good summary of visual resources by Visual Literacy: If you go the link, you can interactively see examples of each type, just hovering the mouse around....
View ArticleVisual Brains: My own Visual CV
Originally posted at Visual Brains In this personnal search of new uses of visual displays to communicate ordinary informations, Visual CV are my new thing. I have been elaborating some for family and...
View ArticleVisual Brains: A Very Incomplete (yet) Catalogue of Evaluation’s Methodologies
Originally posted at Visual Brains My master in Evaluation is coming to an end, and I’m still figuring out how wide the Evaluation field is, and how many different options and approaches you can...
View ArticleVisual Brains: What is Evaluation (infographic)
Originally posted at Visual Brains When I started my master in Program and Policies Evaluation in october 2012, I challenged myself to try to do all my homework and assignments in some friendly visual...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Evaluation Paradigms Evolution
Originally posted at Visual Brains It is very interesting -and not a simple task- trying to understand how the Evaluation field has evolved, hand by hand with other sciences, within the last decades....
View ArticleVisual Brains: Mixed Methods: the infographic
Originally posted at Visual Brains Summer. New issue of New Directions for Evaluation on Mixed Methods in evaluation in my hands. Finally some time to invest in trying to better understand what Mixed...
View ArticleVisual Brains: A little sketch on Performance Management and Evaluation
Originally posted at Visual Brains Even though I’m quite busy with work and preparing my trip to D.C. (yey!!!), I wanted to elaborate another infographic I had promised myself to do, even though it is...
View ArticleVisual Brains: My pentagon of resources
Originally posted at Visual Brains I have a lot of ideas for producing more infographics regarding Evaluation, but for the time being I thought of sharing a new version of my CV that I just customised...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Dashboard of a dream
Originally posted at Visual Brains My friend Alicia had this dream: climbing 40 mountains with 40 friends the year she turned 40 (2013). And she did! She is amazing and passionate so she organized this...
View ArticleVisual Brains: The (first?) circular organisational chart
Originally posted at Visual Brains I’ve been exploring lately new fields where visual thinking and dataviz can help us to deeper or faster understand things. One of these examples are organisational...
View ArticleVisual Brains: The Participation X-ray
Originally posted at Visual Brains Hi everyone! Like many of you I’m starting to prepare for AEA’s annual conference next week in Denver, where I will be presenting an innovative poster called: “The...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Mapping the vulnerability of the beneficiaries of your program
Originally posted at Visual Brains Hi! Long time no see… (2015’s resolution to start regularly posting duly done ;-P) Vulnerability is a very complex multilevel concept, always challenging to address....
View ArticleVisual Brains: A “must” in every Executive Summary
Originally posted at Visual Brains Lately I’m thinking about how to improve Executive Summaries. Nowadays they are often 5-pages summarizing the context and object of the evaluation, the methodology of...
View ArticleVisual Brains: How do AEA’s TIGs look like?
Originally posted at Visual Brains If you are familiar with the American Evaluation Association (AEA) structure, you will know about its Topical Interest Groups (TIGs). TIGs are a major component of...
View ArticleVisual Brains: An evaluator among the best visual journalists
Originally posted at Visual Brains Hi! Last month I had the chance to attend to the world’s top infographic event –Malofiej summit– that takes place every year in Pamplona (North of Spain). I really...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Experimenting with visual Tables of contents (I)
Originally posted at Visual Brains I have a personal thing with the way Tables of contents look nowadays. The way most of them look now is merely a relation of numbers, titles and pages, more or less...
View ArticleVisual Brains: Evaluation assignments mapping
Originally posted at Visual Brains I love mapping things. Putting things in paper and placing them differently according to the most relevant criteria. I can map ideas, individuals, organizations,...
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