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Mar

26

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Upcoming Launch of PAS (Participant Activity Survey)

Posted by on March 26th, 2023 0 comments

NEC is pleased to announce the launch of the NNLM Participant Activity Survey (PAS). It will officially open for access on March 31, 2023. The PAS is a standard, online, anonymous survey that collects process improvement data from any participant in non-training activities across the NNLM. The PAS can be used by ROC staff but… Read More »

Posted in: Blog, Data Analysis, Questionnaires and Surveys

Nov

20

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Free Resources to Help Communities Engage with Their Data

Posted by on November 20th, 2017 0 comments

As you already know, the whole NEO team attended the Evaluation 2017 conference last week.  I learned enough to fill up quite a few blog posts. Today’s is about some free tools I found out about that can help communities get comfortable working with data. I went to a presentation by the Engagement Lab at Emerson… Read More »

Posted in: Blog, Data Analysis, Data Visualization

Aug

14

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Using Charts for Analysis: a Blog Post Fail

Posted by on August 14th, 2017 0 comments

When I volunteered to write this blog post, it was going to be about how a small increase in your social media presence could result in a large increase in website traffic. Instead, it’s a lesson of how charts can be great tools for analyzing data, and how you should always keep an open mind… Read More »

Posted in: Data Analysis, Data Visualization

Jun

09

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The Cookie Exercise: Setting Criteria

Posted by on June 9th, 2017 0 comments

What do Oreo cookies have to do with evaluation? In program evaluation, we want to know the extent to which a program is successful.  If we’re evaluating an activity we’re doing at our job, we might be trying to figure out if more money should be put towards future iterations of that activity or if it… Read More »

Posted in: Blog, Data Analysis

May

06

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Data Party for Public Librarians

Posted by on May 6th, 2016 0 comments

Last week, I threw my first data party. I served descriptive statistics and graphs; my co-hosts brought chocolate. I first learned about data parties from evaluation consultant Kylie Hutchinson’s presentation It’s A Data Party that she gave at the 2016 American Evaluation Association Conference. Also known as data briefings or sense-making sessions, data parties actively… Read More »

Posted in: Data Analysis

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