How many $$$$$ is your title worth?
RWJF maintains a database of all awards they have granted since 1972; a number that comes up to around 30,000 awards. We’ve been looking more deeply at what wasn’t funded… Read More
Digging into some CDC data
This is another one of those live blog post that I write while I do some data analyses. I hope you find this interested to see how we approach the… Read More
Analyzing change using the Pathways to Population Health Compass
This is another one of those “writing a blog while I’m working” blogs. For the Rhode to Equity project, we administered three waves of the P2PH Compass. This tool actually… Read More
Effective Twitter Use Among PA Congressional Representatives
In our work for the RISE project, we have been looking at how different organizations have used Twitter to spread public health messages. These organizations aren’t the only ones with… Read More
A new dawn (chorus)
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. After several months of development, we’ve relaunched the Dawn Chorus… Read More
Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog
10:11 p.m. About five hours ago, a dear colleague said to me, “We need to have this data cleaned for the reports, oh, and it’s also going to be shown… Read More
Notes on “Notes on Effective Altruism”
I first came across the effective on Lex Fridman’s podcast where he interviewed William MacAskill. In a nutshell, effective altruism is the practice of making decisions based on the greatest… Read More
TA can work….if we study it well.
Our friend and colleague Victoria Scott just published a large scoping review on TA effectiveness evidence. She writes: Advances in the science and practice of TA hinge on understanding which… Read More
Using Twitter Data to tell stories
Earlier this week, our friends at the New Jersey Health Initiatives we kind enough to host our dear friend Dr. Elena Ragusa of Drive Evaluation and myself to talk about… Read More
Analyzing Twitter Data: There’s an App for that.
Well, we finally did it. We launched a beta version of Readiness Learning Systems. So far, we only have two apps up there, which are designed to help you analyze… Read More
Implementation Matters: A website to document community-based practices, knowledge, and evidence.
We just launched Implementation Matters–our 100% open-source, community-driven wiki to collect and store community-based evidence and perspectives on community-based issues. This is why we’re doing it. Vanishing Ideas Over the… Read More
Big Things are coming to Dawn Chorus
First things first! We’ve brought on a new specialist, Meghan Blevins, to support our evaluation and research efforts. We love community psychologists, and are happy to have more working with… Read More
