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3/13/15

Is tomorrow the first real Pi day?

Happy Pi Day! As you have undoubtedly noticed thanks to pictures and references to the culinary type of pie in your social media streams, tomorrow is March 14, or 3.14 the (rounded) mathematical constant representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. But wait, there’s more!  Not only is tomorrow 3.14, it’s 3.14.15, […]

By David KennedyRead More

3/12/15

Fresh Evaluation Ideas for Spring

As an evaluator, it’s really easy to draft a thousand lines of questioning to capture every nuance in every conceivable outcome that might result from a particular program.  I want to know everything, and I want to understand everything deeply, and so do the organizations I work with. Yet collecting too much data burdens both […]

By Beth MulliganRead More

3/6/15

Brand Tracking for Sustained Growth

Surveys can be used to guide a plethora of business decisions.  If you’re considering launching a new product or service, a survey can help you get feedback on not only the product or service itself, but your messaging and collaterals as well.  If you’re looking to grow into a new market, a survey can help […]

By Matt HerndonRead More

3/4/15

Research To Do List

Recently, I came across this article about recommendations for the U.S. Census data. While I found the article interesting overall, I was really struck by this quote: “Meanwhile, the academy panel said, the job of producing more than 11 billion estimates a year from the survey is stretching the [U.S. Census] bureau’s capacity. The agency has […]

By Kate DarwentRead More

2/13/15

Is your Neighbor an Engineer?

While Kevin has an engineering degree, I do not—my degree is in social sciences.  After reading Kevin’s blogs about income patterns of folks with engineering degrees, I was inspired to take a fresh look at degrees from a spatial perspective. I wondered where engineers are most likely to live, where social scientists are likely to […]

By Matt BruceRead More

1/21/15

The Wages of Engineering Grads

In two previous blogs (Once an Engineer, Always an Engineer? & The Career Evolution of Engineers), we examined the long-term occupational patterns of people with engineering degrees, by looking at a sample of 1,250 Colorado residents who hold bachelor’s degrees in engineering. We saw that many people with engineering degrees do not actually become working engineers.  […]

By Kevin RainesRead More