Thursday, February 29, 2024
9:00 am – 1:00 pm at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre

Separate registration fee required. Fee includes the half-day course and coffee break.

• Member – $175 + HST
• Non-member – $275 + HST

SPACE IS LIMITED TO 25 PARTICIPANTS.

Prerequisite: Learners should be familiar with evaluation methods and have basic skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.

Aligned to the theme Skills for Now and the Future, this half-day workshop teaches participants how to become better communicators of evaluation findings. The communication our findings needs to change to become more clear, succinct and impactful. Effective data visualization helps us to do so. We will focus on infographics to communicate insights. Orientating infographics in data visualization, we shift briefly to the science of why we should use infographics in communicating to our audiences. We will focus on a step-by-step process to create infographics, including design elements of graphics (incl. charts); colour; and font. These provide the visual cues to our most important element: data. Participants will learn to create better charts using simple techniques and efficiencies. We then put these elements together with examples and look at resources and tools for infographic production.

Dr. A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali, CE is a multi-award-winning data visualization expert. He has produced infographics for the Canadian Evaluation Society and his infographics work has been featured in the Canadian Government Executive Magazine. He has also been a guest blogger on Stephanie Evergreen’s Better Data Visualization blog. Sid does not have a background in graphics design or art; he learned better data visualization through attending workshops, reading books and being part of a better data visualization community.

Dr. A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali, CE, Managing Director, Research & Evaluation Consulting Inc. 

Dr. A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali, CE is the Managing Director of Research & Evaluation Consulting Inc. An award-winning data visualization expert, he has been on a better visualization journey for 15 years. His reports have won awards from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and IABC – Toronto Chapter as well as the Canadian Public Relations Society. He has produced infographics for CES National, and his infographics work has been featured in the Canadian Government Executive Magazine. He has also been a guest blogger on Stephanie Evergreen’s Better Data Visualization blog. Sid does not have a background in graphics design or art; he learned better data visualization through attending workshops, reading books and being part of a better data visualization community.

Sid is a psychometrician by training and holds bachelor’s degrees in Humanities and Education, as well as a Master’s degree (M.Ed.) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Educational Measurement and Evaluation from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.