About the National Hemophilia Foundation

The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) is dedicated to finding better treatments and cures for inheritable bleeding disorders and to preventing the complications of these disorders through education, advocacy and research. Established in 1948, the National Hemophilia Foundation has chapters throughout the country. Its programs and initiatives are made possible through the generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations as well as through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Learn more about the National Hemophilia Foundation at https://www.hemophilia.org/.

About the Annual Meeting

Whether you’re a first timer or an old timer, NHF’s annual gathering of the entire bleeding disorders community in the US offers participants three key elements: an array of educational sessions, a hands-on Exhibit Hall with fun for all ages and social events where you can unwind each day.

Every year families and individuals with bleeding disorders look forward to dozens of sessions on everything from parenting issues, dealing with inhibitors and transition stages to hepatitis C advancements, advocacy updates, research breakthroughs and other timely topics. Programs for children, teens and young adults mean the next generation of people with bleeding disorders is nurtured, encouraged and emboldened to represent the community.

Learn more about the conference at https://www.hemophilia.org/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting.

In Dallas for the conference? Come say hello!

Research Triangle Park Evaluators (RTP Evaluators) is an affiliate of the American Evaluation Association for evaluators, researchers, and social scientists in North Carolina’s research triangle. Learn more on their blog and through their LinkedIn page.

This workshop is hosted by RTP Evaluators but is open to everyone, both members and non-members. Join us in Durham, North Carolina!

Workshop Agenda

Visualizing data through charts, tables, and diagrams helps you deliver bite-sized information that viewers will understand at a glance and retain for the long run. During this hands-on workshop, we’ll focus on practical considerations: designing with stakeholders’ information needs front and center, using readily available software like Microsoft Excel, and thinking through a dozen chart types—dot plots, small multiples, heat maps, and more—that can be applied to your own research and evaluation projects.

During this 4-hour workshop, we’ll walk through a step-by-step data visualization design process:

• Introduction to Data Visualization: Key Players, Latest Trends, Skills Needed
• Who’s My Audience? Numeracy Level, Time, Interest, Information Needs
• How Will I Share My Charts? Reports, Visual Executive Summaries, In-Person Presentations, Meeting Handouts, Slidedocs, Dashboards, Infographics
• Which Chart is Best for My Data? Pros and Cons of 30+ Essential Charts and Chart Choosing Tips
• Which Tool is Best? Strengths of the Big 3: Excel, Tableau, R
• Which Formatting Edits Are Needed? Each section begins with a discussion followed by hands-on practice. For example, after the color section, we practice choosing custom color palettes and applying those RGB codes to our graphs.
  • Removing Clutter: Borders, Grid Lines, Tick Marks
  • Telling a Story with Text: Titles, Subtitles, Annotations
  • Effective Labeling: Direct Labeling, Using Labels Sparingly
  • Color: Custom Palettes, Action Colors, Colorblindness
• Advanced Chart Construction in Microsoft Excel: Strategies for building chart types that aren’t traditionally available in Excel, like small multiples bar charts, panel charts, and dot plots.

After the workshop, you’ll be able to apply both the big-picture critical thinking skills and the detailed technical skills to your own datasets.
 

Skills You’ll Gain

You’ll practice tweaking Excel’s default settings, for example, to order your graphs from greatest to least rather than alphabetically. You’ll also learn to produce advanced visualizations within Excel, like the heat table shown below.

What to Bring

This workshop is highly interactive. Please bring laptops and power cords. The instructor will be demonstrating techniques on a PC with Excel 2013.

Snacks and beverages are provided; please bring a bag lunch or eat lunch prior to the workshop.
 

Kudos for the Hands-On Data Visualization Workshops

“This was the best workshop we’ve ever had at our organization.”

“It was wonderful working with you on the workshop; you did such a great job!”

“Thank you so much! It was a great workshop, and I’ve been able to apply many of your strategies and tips. I look forward to learning and improving even more!”

“I just wanted to let you know how pleased I was with staff response from today’s training. Thank you so much. We are very excited to apply everything we’ve learned. I will, for sure, send you before and after reports. We’ll be in touch.”

“Great mix of hands on + discussion/lecture.”

“Highly recommended for statisticians and data analysts.”

“I wanted to thank you for the training. It was very helpful for my staff and we have heard nothing but positive remarks about you and the content.”

“I wanted to thank you again for coming sharing your knowledge and resources with our evaluation and ‘data-interested’ community. You are so very generous with your resources and I feel confident that the participants benefited greatly from your ideas and techniques.”

“Excellent session – very hands-on! Ann was an excellent presenter.”

“I want to say thank you for the wonderful workshop you gave in Indy last week. There were so many helpful techniques that I can’t wait to share with my colleagues.”

“Great presenter! Excellent visuals (of course) and explanation of concepts.”
 

Learn More

Download a brochure or contact me.
 

Registration

Darn, we’re sold out! As of April 3, the workshop has reached a full capacity of 45 attendees.

Check www.annkemery.com/events for additional workshops and webinars in your area, or contact me to discuss a customized workshop just for your team.

Have you ever emailed a report to a colleague and wondered whether they even read about the results? Have you tried sharing data during meetings only to watch their eyes glaze over? If so, this hands-on workshop is for you. Visualizing data through charts and diagrams helps you deliver bite-sized pieces of information that viewers understand at a glance and retain for the long run. You’ll participate in a step-by-step data visualization design process, from matching visualizations to viewers’ information needs, to identifying the appropriate dissemination formats (like slidedocs and dashboards), to building graphs in Excel. You’ll practice improving upon Excel’s default settings by customizing RGB codes, writing titles that summarize key findings, and reducing clutter. You’ll also build advanced chart types from scratch, like small multiples layouts.

Please Bring Laptops

This workshop is highly interactive; laptops required. PCs preferred, Macs okay.

About the YNPN 2015 Annual Leadership Conference

The Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC (YNPNdc) is a community of inspired professionals equipped to lead a diverse and evolving nonprofit sector.

YNPNdc’s 2015 Annual Leadership Conference is the place for young nonprofit professionals in the DC area to hear from emerging and established leaders in the sector. Join us on May 8 at the National Association of Home Builders, for a full day of high-quality professional development at a price even your boss will admit is a deal. Since 2008, YNPNdc’s Annual Leadership Conference has drawn the nonprofit sector’s best and brightest to share ideas, ask difficult questions, and learn how to do good—better.

Registration

Interesting in attending my session? This one-day conference includes three session timeslots. Register for the full conference and attend my timeslot.

Registration is available at http://www.ticketbase.com/events/2015-annual-leadership-conference-cb843bf3-9509-43ee-948e-d5.

Early Bird – March 2-April 1: $75

Regular Registration – April 2-May 1: $95

On-Site Registration – May 8, 2015: $110

Use the code BringACoworker to receive 50% off when you register with a coworker or friend.

The Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS) is the oldest professional society for program evaluators in the United States. Founded in 1978, EERS remains a vibrant contributor to program evaluation practice and theory. A fully-fledged affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), the purpose of EERS is to promote key goals of the profession in our region.

This pre-conference workshop is open to anyone who registers for the EERS15 conference. Join us in Absecon, New Jersey!

Workshop Agenda

A common misconception is that evaluators need to be computer programmers or graphic designers before diving into visualization. On the contrary, high-quality visualizations can be created in good ol’ Excel. We’ll breeze through data visualization best practices and then dive into the fun stuff: creating advanced charts in Excel. Together we’ll design heat tables, bubble charts, diverging stacked bar charts, spark lines, dot plots, slope graphs, and small multiples and panel layouts, just to name a few. You’ll leave with the critical thinking skills and technical prowess needed to create visualizations faster and easier than you ever thought was possible.

Skills You’ll Gain

You’ll practice tweaking Excel’s default settings, for example, to transform this vertical bar chart into a horizontal bar chart. You’ll also learn to produce advanced visualizations within Excel, like the small multiples bar chart shown below.

What to Bring

This workshop is 25% lecture and 75% hands-on. Please bring laptops and power cords. The instructor will be demonstrating techniques on a PC with Excel 2013.

Kudos for the Hands-On Data Visualization Workshops

“This was the best workshop we’ve ever had at our organization.”

“It was wonderful working with you on the workshop; you did such a great job!”

“Thank you so much! It was a great workshop, and I’ve been able to apply many of your strategies and tips. I look forward to learning and improving even more!”

“I just wanted to let you know how pleased I was with staff response from today’s training. Thank you so much. We are very excited to apply everything we’ve learned. I will, for sure, send you before and after reports. We’ll be in touch.”

“Great mix of hands on + discussion/lecture.”

“Highly recommended for statisticians and data analysts.”

“I wanted to thank you for the training. It was very helpful for my staff and we have heard nothing but positive remarks about you and the content.”

“I wanted to thank you again for coming sharing your knowledge and resources with our evaluation and ‘data-interested’ community. You are so very generous with your resources and I feel confident that the participants benefited greatly from your ideas and techniques.”

“Excellent session – very hands-on! Ann was an excellent presenter.”

“I want to say thank you for the wonderful workshop you gave in Indy last week. There were so many helpful techniques that I can’t wait to share with my colleagues.”

“Great presenter! Excellent visuals (of course) and explanation of concepts.”

Registration

Conference registration is $325 after March 15 and on-site. Discounted student registration is $85.

Workshop registration is $75.

Register for the conference and for this workshop at http://eers.org/conferences.

About Creative Associates International

Creative in an international development firm providing outstanding, on-the-ground development services and forging partnerships to deliver sustainable solutions to global challenges.

Its experts focus on building inclusive educational systems, transitioning communities from conflict to peace, developing sustainable economic growth, engaging youth, promoting transparent elections and more. Creative is recognized for its ability to quickly adapt and excel in conflict and post-conflict environments.

To deliver a high degree of service, innovative theories of change and solid project evaluation, Creative is divided into four program divisions:

• Education
• Communities in Transition
• Economic Growth
• Cross Function

Since its founding in 1977 by four enterprising women, Creative has been a results-driven organization. In the area of education, for example, since 2000 Creative has trained nearly 390,000 teachers in new strategies, approaches and pedagogical techniques. About 45 percent of the teachers are based in Africa.

Thanks to the support of international clients, multilateral donors and the private sector, Creative has active programs in 20 countries—from Honduras to Tanzania and Yemen to Cambodia. Since its founding, Creative has undertaken projects in more than 85 countries.

Today, the Creative counts on a professional staff of more than 1,000 people around the world who are committed to working with officials, nongovernmental organizations and community members to realize the positive change they seek.

Learn more at creativeassociatesinternational.com.

As a nonprofit management services organization, Community Connections of New York, Inc. (CCNY, Inc.) partners with community-based organizations, behavioral health agencies, and government agencies to provide training, evaluation, quality improvement, utilization management, and IT innovation to improve the lives of people in the communities that our clients serve.

Learn more at www.comconnectionsny.org.

Ann Emery and Stephanie Evergreen will discuss how to select appropriate chart types; emphasize key findings with color; and take the guesswork out of your graphs through titles, subtitles, and annotations. We’ll focus on researcher-specific considerations: designing with stakeholders’ information needs front and center, using readily available software like Microsoft Excel, and thinking through a dozen chart types—dot plots, small multiples, heat maps, and more—that can be applied to the social sciences. We’ll conclude with strategies for sharing visualizations through videos, handouts, slidedocs, social media, and dashboards. You’ll leave with the critical thinking skills and technical prowess needed to create visualizations faster and easier than you ever thought was possible.

Objectives

After our workshop, you’ll be able to:

• Describe recent trends in data visualization;
• Explore preliminary patterns by sketching charts by hand and via sparklines and conditional formatting in Excel;
• Weigh the pros and cons of presenting data through various chart types (e.g., clustered bar charts versus dot plots);
• Reduce chart clutter by adjusting borders, grid lines, and tick marks;
• Emphasize key findings with color;
• Write titles, subtitles, and annotations that summarize desired takeaway messages;
• Review drafts of visualizations that were created by you or one of your colleagues; and
• Identify which communications mode(s) are best for sharing charts (e.g., reports, handouts, presentations, etc.).

Target Audience

Anyone with an interest in presenting information more effectively through charts, graphs, tables, and diagrams. No computer programming experience or graphic design skills needed.

Venue

This workshop will be held at the Center for Nonprofit Advancement in the Farragut Square neighborhood in Washington, DC, convenient to both the Red and Orange metro lines. Location details will be shared with participants once you complete the registration process.

Class Size

Class size is limited to 25 participants, so register early. Small classes allow us to hold discussions, teach hands-on computer skills, and respond to all of your specific questions.

Laptops

This is a hands-on workshop. Bring your laptops, power cords, and enthusiasm.

About the Instructors

Stephanie Evergreen is a sought-after speaker, designer, and evaluator who brings a research-based approach to helping clients shine their work.
Stephanie Evergreen’s research-based approach to evaluation and design make her a sought-after speaker and consultant for organizations ranging from small nonprofits, community foundations and university departments to those national and international in scope like Verizon, United Nations, and Head Start.

She holds a PhD in interdisciplinary research, which included a dissertation on the extent of graphic design use in research communications. This interdisciplinary focus gives Stephanie the unique ability to specialize in data from a wide range of fields, from education to health care to policy to market research and beyond.

Stephanie is a frequent international keynote speaker and leads more than 50 workshops every year, from 1 hour to 2 days in length. She is the co-host of Rad Presenters Podcast, and regularly blogs on data presentation. She is a guest blogger for the likes of Presentation Magazine, Beth Kanter, NTEN and aea365.

Her book, Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact, was published by Sage in Fall 2013. She is co-editor and co-author of two issues of New Directions for Evaluation on data visualization, Part 1 and Part 2.

Within the American Evaluation Association, Stephanie founded a topical interest group on data visualization and reporting. She also led the first known initiative to change the culture of presentation within a professional association, the Potent Presentations Initiative.

stephanieevergreen.com | @evergreendata

Ann K. Emery is an independent consultant who specializes in data visualization and data analysis. She partners with evaluation firms, university research centers, and nonprofits seeking to build their data skills. She’s based in DC but spends a good deal of time onsite with organizations, leading trainings and solving spreadsheet woes together. Her goal: To equip you to collect, analyze, and visualize your own data.

Prior to launching her own consulting firm, Ann evaluated advocacy and public policy projects at Innovation Network; managed an internal performance management system at the Latin American Youth Center; evaluated educational programs for local, state, and national education agencies at ICF International; helped to build a coalition of youth-serving nonprofits at the Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families; and contributed to research-to-policy projects at the University of Virginia.

Ann K. Emery is the Secretary of the Washington Evaluators, Co-Chair of the Data Visualization and Reporting Topical Interest Group within AEA, Advisory Board Member of AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative, member of the Nonprofit Technology Network’s Research Committee, and past conference planner for the Eastern Evaluation Research Society.

www.annkemery.com | @annkemery

Registration

Register online through EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/practical-data-visualization-workshop-with-ann-emery-stephanie-evergreen-tickets-4534123686

Questions?

Contact me.