Maintaining a Comprehensive Data Inventory Sprint

Starts:  Mar 12, 2024 12:00 PM (ET)
Ends:  Apr 11, 2024 01:00 PM (ET)
  • Pre-course call: Tuesday, March 5th
  • Starts: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 
  • Ends: Thursday, April 11, 2024
  • Frequency: Varies by week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting at 12PM ET
    1. Instructor led sessions will run from 12-1PM ET
    2. Office Hours (by registration) will be offered from 12-2PM ET on Thursdays in 30-minute increments.
  • Duration: 5 Weeks
  • Language: The sessions will be run in English with live translation to Spanish and/or Portuguese as required.

Maintaining a Comprehensive Data Inventory

This Sprint will help you collect data efficiently, increase accountability, and ease citywide reporting, decision-making, and performance optimization. Data inventories are a great way to figure out what data is being collected (and if there is any duplication among departments), determine what systems are in use, promote transparency, and develop data publishing plans. This Sprint will focus on the importance of data quality, the implications of using ‘bad’ data, the tools and plans needed to perform a data audit, and overall best practices related to conducting data inventories. More so, throughout this course, you will learn about the potential applications of the data your department or agency collects to improve customer service, enhanced data-driven decision making, and optimize resource allocation.

Who should attend?

This Sprint is meant to provide local government staff with the foundational tools and plan needed to perform a data audit. Participants will be expected to review provided reading materials and videos prior to the live sessions and complete the relevant assignments to establish a data inventory and develop a data publishing plan in their cities.

What will I learn/achieve during this 5-week sprint?

At the end of the Sprint, participants will be able to:
- Understand the importance of and draft a documented methodology for conducting a data inventory, which will involve gathering, cataloging, and updating the available data sources within various city departments; (DM 2.1, and 2.2)
- Compile or refine a comprehensive data inventory including the available data sources and in what format this data exists; (DM 2.1 and 2.2)
- Create a plan to make data inventory available internally and externally. (DM 2.3 and DM 2.4)

At the end of the Sprint, participants will be ready to:

- Share details about the data sources they have within the city departments. This involves providing information on the types of datasets, formats, and any relevant metadata associated with the available data. (DM 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3)

Within a year, participants could:

- Use data to inform decision making and make a greater impact in communities. (DM 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4)

This course will put you on the path to achieving the following WWC Criteria:

DM2. Maintaining a Comprehensive Data Inventory: Your local government maintains a detailed data inventory that makes its data and relevant data from third parties more discoverable and accessible and better stewarded. (Must meet 3 of 4)

  • DM2.1: Your local government follows a documented methodology for routinely collecting and updating the data inventory at minimum every 24 months and is in compliance with the methodology.
  • DM2.2: At least 80% of departments in your local government contribute datasets to the data inventory.
  • DM2.3: The data inventory is made available internally to local government staff.
  • DM2.4: A version of the data inventory is made externally available and published online.

 


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About What Works Cities

This learning opportunity and more are available to staff in cities that have completed our online self-Assessment for What Works Cities Certification. The What Works Cities Certification program, launched in 2017 by Bloomberg Philanthropies and led by Results for America, is the first-of-its-kind standard of excellence for data-driven, well-managed local government. Open to cities in North and South America with a population of at least 30,000, What Works Cities Certification welcomes cities at all points in their data journey. Take the Assessment, join our Community and lead with data!