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2022

July

Making notes on PDFs without computer or paper

June

Publications

2021

April

causal-map

2020

September

Causal Map intro

July

Causal Mapping - an earlier guide The walk to school in Sarajevo Glitches Draft blog post for AEA365 Theory Maker! Inventory & analysis of small conservation grants, C&W Africa - Powell & Mesbach! Lots of charts! Answering the “why” question: piecing together multiple pieces of causal information rbind.fill for 1-dimensional tables in r yED graph editor Examples of trivial graph format Using attr labels for ggplot An evaluation puzzle: “Talent show” An evaluation puzzle: “Mobile first” An evaluation puzzle: “Many hands” An evaluation puzzle: Loaves and fishes An evaluation puzzle: “Freak weather” An evaluation puzzle: “Billionaire”

March

Using Dropbox for syncing Shiny app data on Amazon EC2 Progress on the Causal Map app Articles and presentations related to Causal Maps and Theorymaker

2019

February

Better ways to present country-level data on a world map: equal-area cartograms

January

A starter kit for reproducible research with R A reproducible workflow for evaluation reports

2018

August

Welcome to the Wiggle Room

May

Realtime comments on a Theory of Change Responses to open questions shown as tooltips in a chart

January

A panel on visualising Theories of Change for EES 2018? Peer mentoring for evaluators How do you explain reproducible research to clients?

2017

October

Links for my AEA eval2017 presentation, Washington DC

September

Showing developments over time in a Theory of Change: Unicode Sparklines ▇▆▅▃▂ Moved to Clevedon, UK!

January

Beaufort and Rubrics

2016

June

Judea Pearl

May

Everything should be evidence-based - if only the evidence would make up its mind already Using tags on blot.im to get a custom rss feed e.g. for contributing to r-bloggers.

April

Testing my twitter feed from blot.im

February

Emerging evaluation questions How to make Theory of Change diagrams with Theorymaker Causal diagrams and Theory Maker: left-to-right? bottom-up? top-down? The theory behind theories of change The grammar of Theory Maker Theory Maker and markdown

January

Crowd sourced evaluation: did it work? Blot, a promising but almost invisible blogging platform Crowd-sourced evaluation - why? Crowd-sourced evaluation - the steps. A PDF workflow which kills no kittens

2015

November

Theory Maker - technical details Theory Maker - technical details

January

nvpy on Android Custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in plantuml in sublime-text 3

2014

November

Custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in sublime-text 3 Intelligence and context Assumptions and Context in Logic Models

October

Your zotero filesystem Extract annotations and highlighted passages from PDF files

September

From wordpress to pelican

August

Measuring resilience

June

Bar charts with percentage labels but counts on the y axis GANTT software

April

Floating table of contents for your html reports using knitr

March

The Googleverse of Feelings

January

Privacy

2013

December

emacs org-mode as outliner, bibliography and citation manager - working with zotero too 10-years after: A follow-up study on war-traumatized civilians in Bosnia

October

Does maintaining supply of water and sanitation in IDP sites after the relief phase encourage people to stay in the sites?

September

Rstudio starts to codefold markdown

July

Social Capital article published at last

June

Does it make sense to try to measure progress on the highest levels of a logframe?

May

Omni test for statistical significance

February

Haiti: Request for Qualifications for research teams to conduct an impact evaluation of the Integrated Neighborhood Approach (INA)

January

Rstudio, not vim, for reports The five-year plan is dead, long live the five-year plan!

2012

November

Multi-stage sampling together with hierarchical/ mixed effects models: which packages?

August

IFRC Haiti Learning Conference and Evaluation Framework - main documents

July

Annual Meeting of INURED in Port-au-Prince Using R for classification in small-N studies Impact, Outcome and INUS causes

June

Auto-send pdfs from zotero to your kindle and convert for easy reading Progress Markers, Boundary Partners and Item-Response Theory

May

How to mindmap your zotero items Fix for Google search results not showing the actual URL

April

Linus on having a vision or not Joy of colour

March

Outcome Mapping book chapter just out

2011

December

Did poverty cause the England riots? Guardian graphic fails to correct for population density

November

Using lyx to automate production of project proposals, expressions of interest, etc Illogical frameworks, composite results, and logframe bloat. Smoking in cars: some evidence

October

Zotero standalone, lyz, lyx, bibtex integration The rule of “white” The rise of “kiss” in British and American English. Who sets the trends? Authority is not losing out to democracy, but to change. angry, sorry, happy, joy, sad, pleasure, depression - which do you think is most popular in 2011?

August

Democracy support pays off in the end, at least from the perspective of USAID, even in Egypt

July

Paradox of Evaluation Counterfactuals Roma parents’ views on participation in education in B&H. Another example of why research should be reproducible.

April

What helped the the Egyptian revolution the most: Twitter, or the government switching it off? United Nations Volunteers: Citizens’ contributions essential to Tajikistan’s national development goals: UN Report Fairer Calls for Proposals in international development. A simple way to stop the bias!

March

Two datasets for buying a car

January

Stop your figures jumping about in odfWeave

2010

December

My first Reproducible Research Compendium Keeping R libraries in sync between different computers using Dropbox

November

Using APA citation and bibliography styles in Lyx Also in Bosnia & Herzegovina, satisfied parents are those who believe their school representatives are effective Volunteering, the flip side of work? State of the World’s Volunteerism - neatly balanced, maybe?

October

Value and measurability in development Which parents are satisfied with their child’s education? Those who know their class representative well. Especially in poor schools. Students in predominantly ethnic minority classes want segregated education very much. The others don’t.

September

What is wrong with this graph? Openstreetmap shows streets for B&H, can be used on android phones Unending frustration with the anonymous style required in academic documents The most controversial of all psychiatric diagnoses just won’t lie down: and giving the problem to a committee just didn’t help. Google docs a good way of reaching consensus? Three days, six people, three pages, one google doc Unlimited conditional formats in openoffice spreadsheet Problems with R

May

It’s all steam, really

2009

May

Dropbox and zotero Windows 7 RC in Virtualbox in ubuntu jaunty with Awesome Window Manager

2005

May

Title: Tenses in Colour

2000

January

Heads up: Data on go.