Today we have a guest post from Director of Idaho’s Legislative Office of Performance Evaluations and all around great guy Rakesh Mohan. The post is his, I just added the cartoons. Do you know what happens when I tell someone that I’m an evaluator? I get a blank look, because people do not know what […]
Qualitative cartoons from MQP’s latest book
Michael Quinn Patton just came out with the fourth edition of his Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods book and in it you’ll find 9 of my cartoons. The new cartoons are based largely on a series of ruminations added to each chapter (you can find a few rumination examples over at better evaluation). Today’s post […]
The four words that can kill any visual project
I don’t like it. Data visualization experts love to talk about effectiveness, which chart type is better than which other chart type. And while I think the discussion can be helpful sometimes it also misses a big point. Most researchers and evaluators are not making bad visuals, they’re making no visuals (or very few visuals). […]
Cartooning Evaluation 2014
From Wednesday through Friday, I'll be attending the American Evaluation Association conference in Denver. As in past years, I'll be cartooning the event. This year instead of writing a string of posts, I'll be building up just one (this one). When I have a new cartoon I'll update, so feel free to share this link […]
Evaluation conference memory lane
Next week I’ll be heading out to Denver for Evaluation 2014. This will be my fourth evaluation conference. I’ve cartooned each one and this year will be no exception. For today’s post I decided to take a little walk down memory lane. Here are a few of my favorite cartoons from past conferences. To see […]
Stop Wasting Data
[Update] On Thursday, July 31 I presented this little webinar as part of the American Evaluation Association’s coffee break webinar series. If you missed it, AEA was kind enough to give me a copy of the recorded webinar to share with you. Below here you’ll find most of the cartoons used in the presentation. You’ll […]