Resources

• EvalCentral: 53+ blogs in 1 place
• aea365: Tip-a-day by and for evaluators
• Evaluation Flash Cards by Michael Quinn Patton and the Otto Bremer Foundation: ottobremer.org/sites/default/files/fact-sheets/OBF_flashcards_201402.pdf
• The Mountain of Accountability by Michael Quinn Patton and the Blandin Foundation: aea365.org/blog/de-week-wade-fauth-and-allison-ahcan-on-the-mountain-of-accountability/

• American Evaluation Association
• Eastern Evaluation Research Society
• Washington Evaluators

Bar charts

• Bar chart examples: slideshare.net/annkemery/ann-emery-barcharts
• Side-by-side bar charts: annkemery.com/side-by-side-solution
• Small multiples bar charts (several charts in one): annkemery.com/small-multiples-solution
• Small multiples bar charts (with stacked bar charts as the foundation): allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=3072&doc_id=266321
• Diverging stacked bar charts: annkemery.com/diverging-solution

Bullet charts

• Jon Schwabish’s bullet chart tutorial: policyviz.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-making-bullet-charts-in-excel

Dot plots

• Introduction to dot plots: youtube.com/watch?v=1hP0yDMRxVc
  
• Stephanie Evergreen’s dot plot tutorial: stephanieevergreen.com/easy-dot-plots-in-excel

Sankey diagrams

• E90E50fx’s stacked column flow chart tutorial: https://sites.google.com/site/e90e50fx/home/stacked-column-flow-chart-with-excel

Slope graphs

• Cole Nussbaumer’s slopegraph template: storytellingwithdata.com/2013/11/slopegraph-template

Social network maps

• Social network analysis by Twitter hashtag with NodeXL: slideshare.net/j_morariu/sna-twitter-nodexleval13

Spotlight charts

• E90E50fx’s tutorial, inspired by Krisztina Sz?cs’ spotlight chart about film profitability: https://sites.google.com/site/e90e50fx/home/spotlights-chart-in-excel

Tables

• How to Make Your Tables Less Terrible by Darkhorse Analytics: http://imgur.com/ZY8dKpA

Tree maps

• Johanna Morariu’s introduction to tree maps for evaluation: aea365.org/blog/dvr-week-johanna-morariu-on-a-dataviz-technique-new-to-aea365-treemaps/

Waterfall charts

• Cole Nussbaumer’s tutorial on waterfall charts: storytellingwithdata.com/2011/11/waterfall-chart

• Chandoo.org
• Datascopic
• Excel for Noobs

• presentationmagazine.com/editable-maps: Downloadable US and state maps
• colorbrewer2.org: Color advice for cartography

• design-seeds.com: Color palettes for slides and charts
• instant-eyedropper.com: Matching RGB codes

• Font Squirrel: Download free fonts to use in Word, PowerPoint, and more

• p2i.eval.org: The Potent Presentations Initiative