Creating a timeline is a method for picturing or seeing events as they take place over time. By documenting major occurrences in chronological order, evaluators are able to identify patterns, themes, or trends that they may not have seen otherwise. A timeline allows evaluators to “zoom out” and look at the broader landscape, so that they are better positioned to think through and understand the context in which events occur. Having a timeline is especially useful for complex, multi-year evaluation projects with several threads of evaluation, where documenting the process is just as important as measuring the outcome itself. Creating a timeline has three key components: planning, populating, and revising. This presentation shows how to incorporate a timeline into a report, how to use a timeline to track progress internally, and how to utilize data visualization principles to create a visual timeline.
Highlights of this presentation are also available in our handout titled "Putting Data in Context: Timelining for Evaluators (HANDOUT)".
[Link: http://www.slideshare.net/InnoNet_Eval/putting-data-in-context-timelining-for-evaluators-handout ]
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Putting Data in Context: Timelining for Evaluators
1. Putting Data in Context:
Timelining for Evaluators
Smriti Bajracharya
@Smriti_Baj
Katherine Haugh
@Katherine_Haugh
Evaluation 2015, Chicago, IL
American Evaluation Association
Friday, November 13, 2015
Kat Athanasiades
@KatAthanasiades
@InnoNet_Eval
4. Timeline Uses and Values
Engage stakeholders
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Organize data
Understand context
Identify trends
Create engaging reports
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60. Timeline Uses and Values
Engage stakeholders
Organize data
Understand context
Identify trends
Create engaging reports
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67. Organize Data
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68. Organize Data
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Advocacy events Social events
Political: Health
policy events
Political:
Unanticipated events
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73. Hot tips:
Visualize as a team
Test out data categories
Cross-check facts
Check the color palette in B&W
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74. Thank you!
Putting Data in Context:
Timelining for Evaluators
Smriti Bajracharya
@Smriti_Baj
Katherine Haugh
@Katherine_Haugh
Kat Athanasiades
@KatAthanasiades
@InnoNet_Eval
76. Image CreditSlide # Image Credits
2 Apple for breakfast timeline
Flickr CC/szb78
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szb78/3349572686
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14 Two engineers planning
Flickr CC/seattlemunicipalarchives
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/4459827777
15 A woman’s sculpture, with bows and arrow
Flickr CC/marfis75
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/12514851843/
16 Audience
https://pixabay.com/en/audience-crowd-people-persons-828584/
77. Image CreditSlide # Image Credits (continued…)
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24 Blueprint
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/wscullin/3770015203
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28 Jelly Beans (modified from original)
Flickr CC/adactio
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/531747474/in/photostream/
29 Single train track with mountains
https://static.pexels.com/photos/1018/mountains-nature-sunny-bridge.jpg
30 Crazy multiple train tracks with messy cables
By Arne Hückelheim (Own work)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/SunsetTracksCrop.JPG
45 Focus group
Flickr CC/kl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kl/8557667916
78. Image CreditSlide # Image Credits (continued…)
45 Robin Roberts interviewing Barack Obama
By The White House from Washington, DC
https://goo.gl/YyYpFv
Woman using laptop
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-typing-writing-programming-7112/
47 Overloaded donkey
By Nevit Dilmen (Own work)
https://goo.gl/Y32BKY
48 Magnifying glass over a document
Flickr CC/sirihardeland
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sirihardeland/5432836109
49-50, 52-53 All images by Design Seeds
A door hues: http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/a-door-hues15
Fuchsia palette: http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/fuchsia-palette
Citrus brights: http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/citrus-brights2
Beached hues: http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/beached-hues1
Nature hues: http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/nature-hues38
Petaled paper: http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/petaled-paper
Editor's Notes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/szb78/3349572686
Show SB timeline doodle.
Activity:
Draw your own timeline of your week at AEA.
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