Data has become increasingly important in driving organizational conversations and decisions. We need data to present to our boards and prospective families, as well as to understand internally what the results of our work have been. This session will share the standardized test results and related information that different community-based organizations (CBOs) collect, the types of analysis each organization runs, and the visualization tools that have been most effective for understanding their results. Panelists will also talk about the challenges related to data collection, analysis, and presentation and will answer questions around what data to collect, how to understand and present qualitative results, and more.
Guiding Questions:
1) Are you interested in collecting and analyzing data to examine program effectiveness and inform planning?
2) Do you wonder how you could be doing more with your data, or want to know more about the tools that could help you run better analysis?
3) Are you drawn to eye-catching data visualizations and want to harness this power to tell the story of the work that you do?