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The road to a good monitoring and evaluation system is paved with a sound baseline survey. A survey is an integral part of effective data collection and analysis. While it…
Data collection is a minefield of errors. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a researcher with one survey in the field, an NGO with 10 data collection drives per month, or…
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Once your data is structured and cleaned at a basic level, you may need to carry out a series of functions across your data set. Delimiting and concatenating are two…
What is an outlier? In short, it’s a data point that is significantly different from other data points in a data set. The long story? There isn’t a strong mathematical…
Data visualization is a great way to represent huge amounts of data in a simple and intuitive fashion. All data visualizations have the same goal: help viewers easily grasp information…
The most challenging part about designing any survey is to identify and create the right set of questions. Typically, there are two types of survey questions – open-ended questions and…
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What is the first thing that comes to mind when we see data? The first instinct is to find patterns, connections, and relationships. We look at the data to find…
Sustainable development for rural India, in terms of both policy and practice, has become one of the toughest problems to solve for our times. Development Alternatives, a renowned research and…
For data collected through both paper and digital surveys, you should conduct some basic data checks before carrying out thorough data cleaning. Keep reading for 4 basic data checks that you can use to check for underlying errors in almost any data set. Number of Respondents vs. Rows For any kind of survey, you should always match the number of rows…
Any research is only as good as the data that drives it, so choosing the right technique of data collection can make all the difference. In this article, we will…
At the end of the day, you must come up with an an optimal solution that meets all your functional requirements while being cost-effective. If you decide to collect data…
The number of villages in India is anywhere between 600,000 and one million, according to various government databases. The number and the definition of villages vary across databases, making it challenging to plan across sectors for a village development plan. There are around 649,481 villages in India, according to Census 2011, the most authoritative source of information about administrative boundaries…
What do the Social Security Numbers in the United States, Resident Identity Card numbers in China, Aadhar Card numbers in India, and National Health Service numbers in the United Kingdom…
What Is Survey Sampling? Surveys would be meaningless and incomplete without accounting for the respondents that they’re aimed at. The best survey design practices keep the target population at the…
Before investing time and money in going to the field to collect data, you need to plan for it properly. Good planning for data collection can help you capture better, richer, more accurate data while saving your time and resources. Keep reading for 6 tips to help you plan for your data collection better. 1. Think critically about what data…
Writing a survey for a mobile app requires a different strategy than a survey taken with pen and paper or on a desktop computer. Mobile data collection is a completely…
Data is undoubtedly valuable. It offers unprecedented insights into past trends and future predictions that few other non-numerical sources can match, making it an invaluable resource in policy making and social,…
Girish Mathrubootham, Founder and CEO of Freshworks The one area of business where data is separating the winners from the losers at the fastest clip is the race to understand customer behavior. Across sectors, data is increasingly seen as the most potent weapon in the battle for customer acquisition and retention. Little wonder that from likes and shares on social…
The monitoring and evaluation (M&E) process is turning into a spry new creature with technology. With increasing emphasis on real-time feedback, more rigorous data collection, and quantifiable results, the spread and…
The road to a good monitoring and evaluation system is paved with a sound baseline survey. A survey is an integral part of effective data collection and analysis. While it…
Anu Acharya is founder and CEO of MapMyGenome India, a Hyderabad-based genomics company. GenomePatri, its flagship product, helps you discover your genetic predisposition – what diseases you are likely to get, for instance – by profiling your gene makeup. The vision: “Better Health through Technology”. Acharya, who is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and the University of Illinois and holds…
Development programs have to prove that they have had a strong and positive impact. Different types of evaluations are invaluable in showing the benefits of a program to backers, sponsors,…
Debjani Ghosh, Intel’s Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, and Managing Director, South Asia, is one of the region’s most prominent technology evangelists. Under her leadership, the Santa Clara, California-based…
Development professionals work to make positive change happen through their programs and initiatives. However, it is very hard for them to measure their projects’ impact and evaluate how efficient they are. The best development projects are identified by their impact and their efficiency, and the best way to measure these is through a good project monitoring and evaluation system. In the…
In the 2002 movie Minority Report, the main character walks past a bank of billboards, which scan his retina, assess his state of mind, and immediately call out relevant ads…
What are some of the most common data visualizations you see in newspapers, textbooks, and corporate annual reports? Graphs showing a country’s GDP growth trends or charts capturing a company’s…
From solving hard business challenges with IBM’s emerging markets strategy division to tackling complex civic problems as the Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil), Rangia, Kamrup District, Assam, Kailash Karthik’s career is a study in contrasts. As a young bureaucrat, Karthik says he was sold on the power of data and technology in aiding efficient decision making. But his journey so far has thrown up…
Weren’t all of us in our early childhood fascinated by how maps could carry us to faraway continents, countries, rivers, mountains, and oceans? The way we see the world today…
At Atlan, we’re huge fans of hacks that help us solve interesting problems and learn cool things in the process. The Data Team sometimes does quarterly hacks, where we dive…
Data visualization is a great way to represent huge amounts of data in a simple and intuitive fashion. All data visualizations have the same goal: help viewers easily grasp information to make quick inferences or decisions. However, it is important that visualizations are not overdone and hit the sweet spot where they are catchy, informative, and easy to navigate. This…
Whether you are looking to improve your business performance or measure the effectiveness of policy decisions or simply enhance processes in your organization, choosing and tracking the right metrics is…
If a picture is worth thousand words, then what about a neat data visualization? Displaying information in graphics to generate better insights is not a new phenomenon, but, with the…
Last week, we analyzed data on 475 coups around the world from the past 66 years and learned that another coup in Turkey wouldn’t be shocking. This week, we turn our attention to the economic impact of coups. Geopolitics and economics tend to have a messy, confusing relationship. And where there is confusion, there’s often only one way of getting…
On July 15, 2016, a group within the Turkish Armed Forces tried to seize control of the Turkish government. The attempted coup ended a day later when forces loyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan beat…
What if machines could learn? This has been one of the most intriguing questions in science fiction and philosophy since the advent of machines. With modern technology, such questions…
What Is Probability Sampling? Population sampling is the process of picking a representative subset of a population, in order to conduct research over the entire population. While the most accurate results can be obtained if the entire population is considered, it is neither feasible nor practical. This is exactly why the Census of India, which covers every Indian citizen, is…
Sending a satellite around the Earth and engineering submarines to conquer the sea’s depths are among the most daunting challenges taken up by humans. We have performed fairly well at…
What is sampling? Sampling is the process of selecting entities (e.g., people, organizations) from a population of specific interest. By studying this sample, we can generalize our results back to…
