Want to design an infographic but don’t know how to use illustrator (a.k.a. the thing most designers use for infographics)? You have a lot more options these days with template based sites like piktochart, easelly, and infogram. You can also use a photo collage builder like pixlr or fotor to lay it all out. But one […]
5 new cartoons, who cares if you’re not a visual person
I’ve heard, “I’m not a visual person,” quite often lately. Sometimes it takes other forms… “well it just doesn’t appeal to me, maybe I’m old school.” All that might be true. I’m not going to fight you on it. But here’s my question. Why does that matter? When you present, do you present to yourself […]
7 Data Visualization Cartoons, is it a fad and what is qualitative visualization?
“I have a question, is all of this just a fad?” This was asked a couple of weeks ago while I was giving a presentation on interactive data visualization and infographics. My answer, which I base on three points, is this, “no, it’s not just a fad.” The internet is visual (auditory too but that’s a different post). As your audience has grown […]
Engaging stakeholders with 7 cartoons, including 6 new ones
One of my favorite things about evaluation is that there is a need to communicate findings and evidence to a wide variety of audiences. It’s not enough to just do the evaluation. You need to make the results digestible for all sorts of people. Then you need to reach those people. This means explaining important academic concepts to […]
On Interactive Data Visualization, Illustrated
This past week the latest edition of New Directions for Evaluation started hitting mailboxes. The issue covers Data Visualization in Evaluation (it’s part 1 of 2). In it you’ll find an article written by yours truly on recent developments in quantitative visualization. I tried to cover a few things, but the topic that has captivated […]
If heat maps could talk #dataviz
If heat maps could talk…