The Engage with Data blog

More than a feeling It’s the end of the year, when we reflect on the past year and look forward to new beginnings. I haven’t done any rigorous data collection…

Word Clouds and Key Quotations: Making Qualitative Data Work for You This week I’ve got a co-author to help me continue my qualitative data series! Sarah Dunifon is Founder and Principal Evaluator…

Numbers Can’t Tell the Whole Story You should know by now that I’m a bit of a data nerd.  I love spreadsheets. I love organizing data and using it to…

Five years! Five years ago this week, I took the leap.  I was a Community School Coordinator (CSC) in Baltimore and a doctoral student, and it was time for a…

We can’t let them fall through the cracks. I started writing a completely different blog post for this week, but when I read the news this morning, I knew I…

Survey Fails … and How to Recover from Them Sometimes you launch a survey, and you’re blown away by the number of responses you get.  And sometimes, you’re not.  I…