Tag: Student Showcases

Upping Your Reporting Game–with PowerPoint!

Feb 4th, 2020 / Data Visualization

Today’s guest blog post comes from Ann Webb Price who has been a program evaluator for more than 20 years. She shares how she’s creating usable reports that accurately report evaluation findings in a way that engages clients, supports program improvement, and promotes organizational learning.

Why Your Organization Needs Monthly Reports

Jan 21st, 2020 / Reports

Eight reasons that every organization needs monthly reports including: to help see progress, celebrate successes, be more efficient, and more.

3 Data Visualization “Aha” Moments to Ensure Your Data Has the Impact it Should

Nov 26th, 2019 / Data Visualization

Cheryl Davis, a senior analyst, outlines the ways in which she has benefited from enrolling in Ann K. Emery’s online course, Great Graphs.

Reports Before (So Embarrassing) and After (So Exciting) Taking Great Graphs by Ann K. Emery

Oct 29th, 2019 / Data Visualization

Christine Leonard outlines the many ways that taking Ann K. Emery’s ‘Great Graph’s course has helped her to step up her game when presenting results through report style and color schemes, graphs and qualitative data.

Condensing Many Data Elements into an At-a-Glance Directory Using Symbols, Reference Codes and Colors

Oct 1st, 2019 / Dashboards

Guest author Anna Williams was tasked with developing a national directory of organizations working on sexual and reproductive health for one of the United Nations’ country offices. In this blog post, Anna gives you a behind-the-scenes peek at that searchable Excel database.

Three Ways Intentional Data Viz Has Elevated My Work

Sep 26th, 2019 / Data Visualization, Reports

Are your dot plots due for an update? Do they depict the data in a positive and easy-to-understand way? Kathy Dowell shares how to spruce up your dot plots so that your audience is engaged and going away informed. She highlights that your report cover makes all the difference in engaging your audience or your report landing on a shelf unread. Kathy, a student of Ann’s, shares how being enrolled in Ann’s courses was just the inspiration she needed to take her work to the next level.

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