OPEN will be hosting a virtual presentation titled "Dabbling in the Data: Hands-On Data Analysis Activities for Teams" by Corey Newhouse from Public Profit.

As evaluators, we are at our best when interest holders use our findings to get better at what they do; meaning making with data is a powerful way to achieve this goal. Data analysis can seem like a daunting task for many in mission-driven organizations, requiring specialized knowledge and years of training. Public Profit wrote Dabbling in the Data: A Hands-On Guide to Participatory Data Analysis to give evaluators, and the folks they work with, a jumpstart in interpreting data collaboratively.

In this one-hour virtual workshop, participants will preview select Dabbling activities, ranging from "get to know your data" to more in-depth approaches. We'll discuss the ways in which participatory data analysis promotes more rigorous evaluation practice by engaging interest holders in meaning-making. Participants will start their own Dabbling action plan to apply what they have learned to their own work.

More about our presenter:

Corey Newhouse got her start as a teacher at Summerbridge Cincinnati in the early 1990s and has been involved in educational equity and social justice movements ever since. She founded Public Profit to build a team that would seamlessly blend social science research methods, organizational change strategy, and a deep commitment to supporting changemakers. Corey’s formal training is in program evaluation, education policy, and statistical analysis. Prior to launching Public Profit in 2007, Corey was a Senior Policy Associate with Children Now, supporting the policy team with data and evaluation, and as an Associate with HTA, a strategy and fundraising consulting firm. Corey earned her MPP at UC Berkeley and her BA at Columbia College.

As the Founder and Principal of Public Profit, Corey leads the team’s strategic direction, external relationships, and business development. In addition, Corey serves as an internal thought partner to project teams, assisting with the design of Public Profit’s engagements in evaluation, capacity building, and strategic program design. She is co-author of Public Profit’s Creative Ways to Solicit Stakeholder Feedback and Dabbling in the Data, and a contributor to Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned (Sage Publications). She is a co-editor of the volume, Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time (Information Age Publishing).

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