Monitoring And Evaluation

You might suspect I’m not the biggest fan of surveys — I certainly have my criticisms of them as a tool. My main gripe is that I see them being used in completely the wrong way, and then those results can be used to justify major decisions. …

No model lives forever, it degrades over time. Why does model decay happen? Why does the model which was doing good for last few days/months starts behaving differently? Lets try to deep dive and understand the reasons for this model decay . The culprit is none other but data itself…

A highly scalable monitoring system with a single point of view has become an indispensable attribute of both a large business and an actively developing startup. …

By Søren Vester Haldrup with support from Samuel Tran UNDP has set up an M&E Sandbox to nurture and learn from new ways of doing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) that are coherent with the complex nature of the challenges facing the world today. This earlier blog post discusses the rationale…

In this post, I share with you my justification for using r markdown to automate routine data analysis tasks. R Markdown is a powerful tool for creating reproducible and dynamic documents, presentations, and reports. It combines the simplicity of Markdown syntax with the functionality of R, making it an ideal…

By Hanna Camp, Senior Advisor — Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Technology In late 2020, Mercy Corps started an effort-intensive process of improving its use of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Technology across our global programming. MEL Tech (adapted from and inspired by the MERL Tech community) at Mercy Corps means…

Monitoring machine learning models after they have been deployed to production is crucial for ensuring that they continue to perform accurately and effectively. …

I’ve been reading this amazing book called ‘Made to Stick’ by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. I’ll share a few concepts from the book that guarantees or at least improves the delivery of insights from analysis. The book highlights six principles always at work when building a sticky idea: simplicity…

As a self-taught data professional, my career in data has been quite a journey. Data professional, because often, I’ve not been sure what to identify as. I’ve sailed the wave of data from data scientist, data analyst, and now… Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). M&E is the process by which data…