Results for "Federal Data Strategy"

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) adopted a data-driven, risk-informed strategy to better assess risks, prioritize investments, and cost effectively modernize its aging nuclear infrastructure. NNSA’s new strategy, and lessons learned during its implementation, will help inform other federal data practitioners’ efforts to maintain facility-level information while enabling accurate and timely enterprise-wide infrastructure analysis.

The Data Skills Training Program Implementation Toolkit is designed to provide both small and large agencies with information to develop their own data skills training programs. The information provided will serve as a roadmap to the design, implementation, and administration of federal data skills training programs as agencies address their Federal Data Strategy’s Agency Action 4 gap-closing strategy training component.

Although not a true pause in operations, ONR’s data standdown made data quality and data consolidation the top priority for the entire organization. It aimed to establish an automated and repeatable solution to enable a more holistic view of ONR investments and activities, and to increase transparency and effectiveness throughout its mission support functions. In addition, it demonstrated that getting top-level buy-in from management to prioritize data can truly advance a more data-driven culture.

Status summary and preliminary business plan for a potential metadata management product under development by the Data.gov Program Management Office

Bloomberg Government analysts put together a prototype through the Census Bureau’s Opportunity Project to better assess where volunteers should direct litter-clearing efforts. Using Census Bureau and Forest Service information, the team brought a data-driven approach to their work. Their experience reveals how individuals with data expertise can identify a real-world problem that data can help solve, navigate across agencies to find and obtain the most useful data, and work within resource constraints to provide a tool to help address the problem.

Purchase-to-Plate Crosswalk (PPC) links the more than 359,000 food products in a comercial company database to several thousand foods in a series of USDA nutrition databases. By linking existing data resources, USDA was able to enrich and expand the analysis capabilities of both datasets. Since there were no common identifiers between the two data structures, the team used probabilistic and semantic methods to reduce the manual effort required to link the data.

A recent collaboration between the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) helps shed light on the segment of the American workforce employed by foreign multinational companies. This case study shows the opportunities of cross-agency data collaboration, as well as some of the challenges of using big data and administrative data in the federal government.

NASA’s data scientists and research content managers recently built an automated tagging system using machine learning and natural language processing. This system serves as an example of how other agencies can use their own unstructured data to improve information accessibility and promote data reuse.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) experience forming the Data Stewardship Tactical Working Group (DSTWG) provides meaningful insights for those who want to address data-related challenges collaboratively and successfully in their own agencies.

This case study details the development of the renewable energy applications built on the Open Energy Information (OpenEI) platform, sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and implemented by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) releases data from millions of consumer complaints about unwanted calls to help fuel a myriad of private-sector solutions to tackle the problem. The FTC’s work serves as an example of how agencies can work with the private sector to encourage the innovative use of government data toward solutions that benefit the public.

Through its Enterprise Learning Agenda, Small Business Administration’s (SBA) staff identify essential research questions, a plan to answer them, and how data held outside the agency can help provide further insights. Other agencies can learn from the innovative ways SBA identifies data to answer agency strategic questions and adopt those aspects that work for their own needs.

USDA's Food and Nutrition Service restructured its approach to data validation at the state level using an open-source, API-based validation service managed at the federal level.

The Census Bureau team produced a new interactive mapping tool in early 2018 called the Response Outreach Area Mapper (ROAM), an application that resulted in wider use of authoritative Census Bureau data, not only to improve the Census Bureau’s own operational efficiency, but also for use by tribal, state, and local governments, national and local partners, and other community groups. Other agency data practitioners can learn from the Census Bureau team’s experience communicating technical needs to non-technical executives, building analysis tools with widely-used software, and integrating efforts with stakeholders and users.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool harnessed the power of millions of data records while protecting the privacy of individuals, creating an easy-to-use tool to better understand health disparities.

The Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) is a digital platform to help families, survivors, and fellow veterans to take a leading role in honoring their beloved veteran. Built on millions of existing National Cemetery Administration (NCA) records in a 25-year-old database, VLM is a powerful example of an agency harnessing the potential of a legacy system to provide a modernized service that better serves the public.

It is a well-kept secret that the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau were the original two federal agencies to build the first national digital database of roads and boundaries in the United States. The agencies joined forces to develop homegrown computer software and state of the art technologies to convert existing USGS topographic maps of the nation to the points, lines, and polygons that fueled early GIS. Today, the USGS and Census Bureau have a longstanding goal to leverage and use roads and authoritative boundary datasets.

To improve customer service and give better answers to users of the USA.gov website, the Technology Transformation and Services team at General Services Administration (GSA) created a chatbot using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation.

The Assessing Data Skills Playbook supports the Federal Data Strategy by helping agencies get started with assessing data skills.

The Data Ethics Framework supports the Federal Data Strategy by helping federal leaders and data users make ethical decisions as they acquire, manage, and use data in support of their agencies’ missions.

The Data Governance Playbook supports the Federal Data Strategy by helping agencies get started with prioritizing data governance and assessing maturity.

This template was created by the Data and Analytics CoE to help agencies build a Data Governance Steering Committee Charter.

The Data Innovation Event Playbook supports the Federal Data Strategy by helping agencies host events to strengthen stakeholder engagement for data-related efforts.

This template was created by the Data and Analytics CoE to help agencies as they build a Data Governance Advisory Group (DGAG) Charter.

The Federal CDO Council’s Approach to Measure Chief Data Officer Value and Impact paper proposes several ways CDOs can measure the impact and value of their initiatives,including enterprise analytics programs, and proposes adopting a product management mentality in addition to an asset management mentality to help ensure the alignment of data programs and initiatives to business and mission outcomes.

Federal Chief Data Officers (CDOs) are pivotal and transformational in revolutionizing data management. This paper seeks to help agency CDOs implement key components of successful Enterprise Analytics programs by applying lessons learned from successful programs established since the passage of the Evidence Act.

The report is intended to provide a common language and framework for reporting on the quality of data sets and a foundation upon which federal agencies can make decision about the management of data products throughout their lifecycle. The report fulfills a responsibility under Action Step 19 of the Federal Data Strategy 2020 Action Plan.

This template was created by the Data and Analytics CoE to help agencies build an Office of the Chief Data Officer Charter.

The United States Data Federation is dedicated to making it easier to collect, combine, and exchange data across government through reusable tools and repeatable processes.

The Federal Data Strategy provides a common set of data principles and best practices in implementing data innovations that drive more value for the public. Annual Federal Data Strategy action plans identify and prioritize practice-related steps for a given year, along with targeted timeframes and responsible entities. The plan identifies initial actions for agencies that are essential for establishing processes, building capacity, and aligning existing efforts to better leverage data as a strategic asset.

This memorandum establishes a Federal Data Strategy (Strategy) as a framework of operational principles and best practices that help agencies deliver on the promise of data in the 21st century. Through consistent data infrastructure and practices, the Strategy will enable Government to fully leverage data as a strategic asset by supporting strong data governance and providing the protection and security that the American people, businesses, and partners deserve. Dated June 4, 2019.

The Curated Data Skills Catalog supports the Federal Data Strategy by providing a list of learning opportunities to help agencies develop competencies for managing data as a strategic asset and making data-driven decisions.

The Federal Chief Data Officers (CDO) Council has introduced the Data Science Hiring Toolkit to assist federal agencies in recruiting and hiring data science talent more effectively. This Toolkit was developed in collaboration with Excellence in Government (EIG) Fellows across various agencies and with input from key organizations like the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and provides guidance on critical aspects of the hiring process including fostering diversity, defining roles accurately, selecting appropriate job classifications, and preparing both candidates and hiring managers. The toolkit will be regularly updated to reflect evolving data science practices with further input from OMB, OPM, OSTP, and other federal partners.

Improving staff data skills allows agencies to better harness the power of data. This playbook provides advice and tools for assessing data skills and addressing gaps. Executing the activities contained in this document will help agencies progress in fulfilling requirements of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 and related guidance.