Chris Lysy

Why do so many researchers and evaluators insist on sucking all the fun out of their work? Not only CAN you be a professional without putting your audiences to sleep, you MUST.

Chris Lysy is an information designer, data analyst, and cartoonist. As a blogger at freshspectrum.com, he writes about design for data people, helping researchers, evaluators, and data analysts learn new tools and techniques so that they can create their own professional reports and infographics. He also runs a virtual learning community going further in-depth on the strategies at diydatadesign.com.

As an independent consultant, Chris works with NGOs, government agencies, and large non-profits helping their teams create better reports, faster, through a mix of design support and capacity building. In his writing, he leverages two decades of research and evaluation expertise, along with his creativity, to make easy and fun-to-read guides about stuff that's often shared in super boring text books.