Data and Analytics
Establish an Agency-Wide Data Strategy
The Data and Analytics CoE offers a customized Data and Analytics strategy service that enables optimal access to agency data. Our approach identifies challenges and areas for improvements in the current state and works collaboratively with the agency to define the vision. Our team employs industry best practices and architectural principles to define the target state. The strategy is delivered with a well-defined implementation plan that includes year-long projects, benefits and risks.
Service Offerings
- Enterprise Data Strategy & Implementation
- Data Maturity Assessment
- Data Governance
- Advanced Analytics
Latest Updates
Demystifying Data Governance: Data & Analytics CoE event asks, ‘How do you manage your data?’
By the Data & Analytics CoE
Announcing Data Governance Charter Templates
By Data & Analytics CoE
Ten Plays of Our Data & Analytics Approach
By the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence
Ten Plays of Our Data & Analytics Approach
By the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence
Establishing Data Governance, Step Three of the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence Approach
By the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence
Building an OCDO, Step Two of the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence Approach
By the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence
Preparing for the OCDO: The HUD Experience
By the HUD Data and Analytics Center of Excellence
How to Prepare for the OCDO, Step One of the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence Approach
By the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence
Using USDA Datasets to Address Water Management Challenges at the IoT World Hackathon
Using USDA Datasets to Address Water Management Challenges at the IoT World Hackathon
The OCDO, Coming to an Agency Near You
By the HUD Data and Analytics Center of Excellence
Becoming A More Fact-Based and Data-Driven Organization
The Data Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) is helping the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) meet its goal of becoming a fact-based data driven, customer-focused organization by leveraging the agency’s vast administrative and programmatic data. Since FY 18 we have been applying data tools and tactics such as: data sharing, data visualization, predictive analysis, and ad hoc analysis to put key information at the fingertips of leadership. Through better access to timely, accurate information, leaders will be enabled to improve their decisions, program outcomes, and overall management of the Department’s resources.
REE Key Performance Indicators Development
The GSA Data and Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) teamed up with GSA’s Fed2Fed Solutions team to help USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area agencies develop an improved set of organization-wide key performance indicators (KPIs). In May, REE was tasked by USDA Deputy Secretary Censky to identify a more robust set of key performance indicators, with a focus on output-oriented measures that capture the full value of REE agencies’ contributions to the mission area goal. REE’s four agencies are “dedicated to the creation of safe, sustainable, competitive U.S. food and fiber system and strong, healthy communities, families, and youth through integrated research, analysis and education.” REE’s four agencies are:
