Creating a data-first culture at federal agencies -- FCW

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-08

Summary:

"The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 provides guidelines on how agencies should collect and analyze data to promote effective and efficient policymaking across programs and organizations. Data, not gut feelings or political influence, will determine how policy is created, modified or retired and whether a program achieves its intended objectives....

The legislation also incorporates the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act of 2018, which requires federal agencies to make their program and activity data available in machine-readable format and to maintain and publish inventories of their datasets. The rich datasets captured will be available to the public and, more importantly, shareable among federal agencies. Having accessible data finally gives federal agencies the ability to explore critical metrics about the citizens they are serving, programs they are executing and the results of their work. ..."

Link:

https://fcw.com/articles/2019/03/07/comment-data-first-culture-tableau.aspx

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oa.new oa.psi oa.usa oa.government oa.legislation oa.data oa.mandates oa.policies.data oa.policies

Date tagged:

03/08/2019, 14:27

Date published:

03/08/2019, 09:28