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Nov
23
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The holiday season is upon us, so I want to give our readers a holiday Appreciative Inquiry challenge. This is a fun way to practice the Appreciative Inquiry interview. It also provides an opportunity for you and your family to plan a better-than-usual holiday season. Finally, it gives everyone something to talk about other than politics…. Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Nov
18
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When people talk about data visualization, they are usually talking about quantitative data. In a previous post, we explained that data visualizations help people perform three primary functions: exploring, making sense of, and communicating data. How can we report qualitative data in a way that performs those same functions? We just got some exciting news… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization
Nov
11
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This week, I invite you to stop reading and start doing. Okay, wait. Don’t go yet. Let me explain. I am challenging you to be a participant-observer in a very important assessment project being conducted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The NEO is part of the National Library of Medicine’s program (The National… Read More »
Posted in: Questionnaires and Surveys
Nov
07
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Last week I taught the class Finding Information in Numbers and Words: Data Analysis for Program Evaluation at the SCC/MLA Annual Meeting in Galveston, TX. There is a section of the class where we review some math concepts that are frequently used in evaluation, and the discussion of mean, median and mode was more interesting… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Oct
28
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By Michelle Malizia, Director of Library Services for the Health Sciences, University of Houston I’ll start with a full disclosure: I am a late convert to logic models. Many years ago, I worked in a department that, for a period of time, became governed by logic models. This experience made me fear… no, hate… logic models. … Read More »
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