Check out these notes from Veena Pankaj's Data Placemat session during #eval14 in Denver, Colorado! A little bit about the session: Data placemats are used to communicate preliminary evaluation results to stakeholders prior to writing the final report. They offer stakeholders an opportunity to weigh their own judgments about the data and share their thoughts prior to the final report. In this session, Veena Pankaj described various ways to improve stakeholder engagement, as well as ways to increase stakeholder understanding of evaluation results.