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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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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” –Kahlil Gibran Scalability, at the end of the day, has a lot to do with…
Unleashing the power of alternative data to transform India’s battle against malaria Too many malaria cases, too little data Today, India is fighting one of its toughest battles against malaria. With a…
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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Sean presented a talk about how he built this app at the December 2018 edition of the Delhi userR meetup. Learn more about the meetup here, or watch his talk…
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” –Kahlil Gibran Scalability, at the end of the day, has a lot to do with…
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…
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” –Kahlil Gibran Scalability, at the end of the day, has a lot to do with time management. Every little act that results in improved efficiency counts when you’re trying to scale a process or an organization. Yet organizations have come to embrace so many inefficient…
Observational data is a valuable form of research that can give researchers information that goes beyond numbers and statistics. In general, observation is a systematic way to collect data by…
One of the first things we are taught in Programming 101 is to write a well-structured and commented code. And as any newbie would, we ignore this lesson and focus…
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 simple operations that will help you manipulate your data and make it ready for analysis. Delimiting Data Delimiting data is helpful to automate data segregation. Imagine you are analyzing responses…
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…
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…
You want to collect all the relevant data about your program, but you also want to be judicious about it. Otherwise you’ll end up being overwhelmed by data. Remember, there is a cost to collecting and processing every data point. Just because the cost of collecting a certain data point doesn’t seem very high, that doesn’t mean that it is…
Nothing is more frustrating than wrapping up a lengthy data collection exercise, aggregating all the data and looking through it, only to find missing data. At best, these missing values…
What Is a Focus Group Discussion? A focus group discussion (or FGD) is a qualitative research method in the social sciences, with a particular emphasis and application in the developmental…
When I say that Impact Evaluation is history, I mean it. Some people will question this. After all, Impact Evaluation just became mainstream in the last decade, driven by great improvements in experimental design methods like randomized control trials (RCTs). So how can I say that it’s already a thing of the past? It’s not Impact Evaluation’s fault. The world…
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…
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 using an interactive app on a smartphone, you’ll have to consider a variety of factors that will have budgetary, technological and logistical implications. They can be broadly divided into 3…
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…
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 core of their thought process. ‘All the residents of the Dharavi slums in Mumbai’, ‘every NGO in Calcutta’ and ‘all students below the age of 16 in Manipur’ are examples…
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,…
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, political and economic understanding. However, data can only be useful if it is accurate and reliable. There are some major obstacles that can stand in the way of credible data collection…
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…
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 might seem obvious that baseline information is necessary to understanding the cause and/or effect of any study or policy implementation, baseline surveys often don’t get the attention and effort they…
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…
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 chipmaker has evolved into a key strategic ally of the Indian government’s digital literacy and innovation programs. Ghosh says data-driven decision making is important because data busts myths about received…
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.…
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 sales growth in the last 4 quarters would be high up on the list. Essentially, these are visualizations that track time series data — the performance of an indicator over…
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…
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…
