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Evaluation Hole
 
"Careful? You fall into that and you'll never see our program in the same light again."
Published On: January 22, 2022
Cartoon by Chris Lysy. man says, "This makes no sense." Woman replies, "Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't make sense." Inspired by Vidhya Shanker.
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy - Weather app with a methods section.
Audience Interest Level Cartoon - High Interest - "Give me all the data." Medium interest - "Okay, I'm listening, what you got?" Low Interest - "I'm sorry did you say something?"
freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. Person driving a car (badly), "I love this new smart dashboard. It's so engaging. Look, you can play candy crush.
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. An older Alice seeing the white rabbit walk by, thinking, "Not falling for that one again. I'm much too busy anyway." Rabbit looking at pocketwatch saying, "I'm Late."
Freshspectrum comic by Chris Lysy. One person to another, "So you don't find long wordy evaluation reports inspiring? That's just me?
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy, "I use lots of jargon because I care more about precision than you understanding my lesson."
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy, Person 1, "A few years ago I launched my independent consulting practice." Person 2, "Neat, what kind of consulting do you do?" Person 1, "Oh, you know, a little of this, a little of that."
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. "We suggest using a modern 1:3:25 reporting strategy." "1 slidedoc, 3 blog posts, and 25 social media posts."
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. How to identify a data visualization expert.
You're blocking the chart!
3 Page report reads like a 50 page report
We need to prove evaluation works to others.
Rich like me cartoon.
I don't get it, it's just a simple word game.
"Careful? You fall into that and you'll never see our program in the same light again."
"So you just fell into evaluation?" person 2, "I considered starting my own nonprofit. But then I thought, we don't need more nonprofits, we need the ones we have to be more effective.
What it means to "fall into" evaluation. "Our grant application requires an evaluation plan. You're good at Excel and power point right?"
That's a job.
Fell into a logic model cartoon.
Have you ever flipped through a notebook and found some random phrase that you have no recollection hearing, thinking, or writing? "This frog has style. "Asking for a friend."
So yea, I went to school for social science, and, yada, yada, yada, now I'm a program evaluator."
"I was told you find our new report really useful? Person 2, "Oh, I do, I needed to raise my monitor and it was just the right length."
You said to only schedule with likely report readers. There are none.
Think Aloud
Do you even know how to use a computer?
My Cartoonist Trophy
26K or 1.99
VR Report
Too many reports?
Eval-entine's day
Creative in the box.
50 page word doc 25 page visual report
Sure, you can write what you want to write.
Missed Communication
Itzhak Perlman of Mixed Method Data Governance
Pretend we read it.
Reporting Secret
Matchy Matchy Color
“So moving on from the manure and back to the tree,” says person presenting in the front of the room. Person watching, “I think you may be taking the metaphor too far.”
That data set is so dirty we might need to put a parental advisory label on it.
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