Data Analytics Center of Excellence
Investment ID: 014-000000200
Overview
Program Title
Data Analytics Center of Excellence
Agency
Description
The Center for Analytics will inform and influence foreign policy through better decision-making on program, policy, and management questions. It will enhance the Department's capacity for data informed insights, innovations, and culture. Employees will be able to use data analytics to achieve smarter insights and stronger mission outcomes. Finally the Center will bring together existing pockets of analytics excellence within bureaus to create a more collaborative network.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Other
Investment Detail
While the Center for Analytics is still in a planning phase and therefore has not realized and return on investment yet, the anticipated return will be a result of the Center's direct engagement with bureaus throughout the Department. This engagement will decrease man hours currently spent on manual information and data processing. Such work will be replace by insights driven by high performing tools and highly skilled individuals rapidly answering business questions and addressing client needs in a scalable fashion.
The Center will engage with the Department in three primary ways: Advising, Partnering, and Delivering.
Advising: With a light touch approach the Center will guide bureaus to address their analytics challenges using existing tools, templates, facilitations, consults, methodologies, and solutions.
Partnering: With a medium touch approach data scientists from the Center will be detailed to a bureau to solve analytics challenges together, with the bureau as the project owner.
Delivering: The Center will act as both the project owner and manager responsible for the delivery of the entire product for a requestor in this high touch approach.
The Center will build Department capacity in other ways, such as sponsoring data literacy trainings and providing easy mechanisms to obtain analytical tools such as tableau or R.
The Center will engage with the Department in three primary ways: Advising, Partnering, and Delivering.
Advising: With a light touch approach the Center will guide bureaus to address their analytics challenges using existing tools, templates, facilitations, consults, methodologies, and solutions.
Partnering: With a medium touch approach data scientists from the Center will be detailed to a bureau to solve analytics challenges together, with the bureau as the project owner.
Delivering: The Center will act as both the project owner and manager responsible for the delivery of the entire product for a requestor in this high touch approach.
The Center will build Department capacity in other ways, such as sponsoring data literacy trainings and providing easy mechanisms to obtain analytical tools such as tableau or R.