Data Visualization: Using Data & Design to Communicate Effectively

Are you responsible for communicating your organization's impact?  Have you struggled with how inform your stakeholders of your program results?  Do you need to create monthly progress reports for the budget or program goals?  Join us to learn how to put the data into clear graphics that tell the story for you.  You will leave knowing how to create visualizations that emphasize key messages, hold audience attention, and get used.  

We will review strategies that allow participants to be better consumers and creators of charts and visualizations.  By the end of this training, participants will know key principles for developing simple and informative visualizations and have the resources to explore this further.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to more effectively communicate information using efficient visuals
• Gather ideas on how to present data so that your audience can better understand and gain meaning from the information
• Discover how to use Excel to create beautiful, simple and customized graphics

Level

Introductory

Audience

Program Managers, Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officers, Treasurers and anyone responsible for reporting data and creating charts.

Presenter

Michelle Bloodworth is a senior evaluator at Apex Education, which provides consulting and evaluation services in the education and health fields. She has worked with partners in early childhood, K-12, community schools, and higher education; professional development; as well as school health. As a program evaluator, she is very interested in making data accessible and useful, including how data visualization can help make data understandable and meaningful. Michelle has planned and conducted large and small-scale evaluations and provided organizational consulting and capacity-building support to clients in areas such as logic modeling, evaluation design and implementation, and systems-based evaluation. She brings expertise with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and regularly combines both approaches when designing evaluations. Michelle seeks participation of multiple stakeholder groups to design and conduct program evaluations that lead to program improvement and organizational capacity building. She received her master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a pre-doctoral fellow with NIMH’s Prevention and Research Training Program.