Data for Good Regina talks about how it has used data to help organizations understand their data better so that they can further their mission. They talk about the United Way Summer Success Program and the datathon with the Distress Centre in Calgary.
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Data
AmbassadorsMeetups DataThons
Work with CBO’s or on projects for
CBO’s at the early stages of their data journey
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Regan Meloche Maryna Moskalenko Ricardo Del Cid ScottWells
Data
AmbassadorsMeetups DataThons
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Summer Success Program
Data collection, storage, and visualization system
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Capture Store Process Analyze Share Preserve
Strategies, Policies & Guidelines People & organizational bodies Data Quality Processes
Data Governance
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Anonymized Data
Security Controls In Place
Self-maintained
Setup for Future Growth
Summer Success Program Dashboard
• The literacy across camps
• If, and what type of, resources impacted
literacy rates
• Males vs Females
• Attendance vs. Literacy improvement
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DataThon
24-hour+ workshops in which
small groups of data-focused
people collaborate intensely on
a business problem for a CBO.
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DataThon
• Severity: Identify any changes in call content and severity by time of day
• Risk Reduction: What types of issues we are most successful at stabilizing, or reducing the risk
• Relationship: Correlations between our data and public data sets like deaths by suicide in
Alberta and weather records.
• Mobile ResponseTeam: Is there enough demand to run this 24 hours a day.
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• 72 hours
• 50 data volunteers
• 1.25 million records
• Chats and texts over 12 years
DataThon
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• Distress Centre
• 211
• Open Calgary Data
• Statistics Canada
DataThon
Data Available
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DataThon
AnalyticsTeam 1
• Identify the issues discussed more frequently.
• Identify differences in average length of call .
• Identify difference in the severity of risk.
• Identify differences in demographic makeup of the clients.
Tools: Splunk, R, Excel
AnalyticsTeam 4
• Identify if there is any correlation in the months where the highest numbers
of deaths by suicide have occurred in Alberta and the issues/severity of risk
presented in Distress Centre calls and chats.
• Identify how many calls could have been linked to our primary mobile
partner if they operated 24 hours (calls between 9pm and 9:30am).
Tools: Python & R
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“We can put a myth to rest, no correlation was
found between full moons and the number of calls
or the severity of calls. So, there is no reason for
staff or volunteers to avoid these shifts.They are no
more demanding than any other day. "
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DataThon
Some Key Findings
• The Mobile ResponseTeam can operate 24 hours a day.
• Men call in and talk about suicide when they at an escalated state.
• No correlation between suicide-related calls and deaths by suicide was found.
• Most calls remained at the same risk assessment level at the end of the call.
• Of the calls where risk level changes, the most common change is for a call to move from urgent to
semi-urgent showing some good de-escalation progress.
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DataThon
Some Key Findings
• The Mobile ResponseTeam can operate 24 hours a day.
• Men call in and talk about suicide when they at an escalated state.
• No correlation between suicide-related calls and deaths by suicide was found.
• Most calls remained at the same risk assessment level at the end of the call.
• Of the calls where risk level changes, the most common change is for a call to move from urgent to
semi-urgent showing some good de-escalation progress.
• No discernable weather correlation (high and low temperature) was found in 211 calls.
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Team 5 mapped spatial data to calls
postal code data and created a visual
representation of data usingTableau
and PYXISWorldView.
DataThon
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DataThon
“We have established a baseline for the monthly and seasonal expected changes for caller issues – which
we can use to compare data to in the future”
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DataThon
• Build internal capacity and hire data focused people
• Set them up for long term success
• Prove out that data helped them solve problems
• Answer real business questions
• Invigorate their team
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Alberta Non-Profit
Data Strategy
http://bit.ly/2uXWfVu
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Alberta Non-Profit
Data Strategy
Non-profits see data as a
strategic asset,
but…
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ral • Privacy
• Ethics
• Technical barriers
• Quality of data
• Complicated software
• Lack of capacity &Training
Alberta Non-Profit
Data Strategy
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Alberta Non-Profit
Data Strategy
Phase 1:
Stakeholder Engagement
Project White paper (July 2018): http://bit.ly/2PKYDWM
Building a Foundation for an Alberta Nonprofit Data Strategy (March 2019)
http://bit.ly/2vtNbbe
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Editor's Notes
Making repeated judgements depelts an individuals executive function and mental resources.
Sequential decision making and the apparent mental depletion that they appear to evoke also can dirve people to simplify decisions by accepting the the status quo.
1) community schools offering summer success most often select teachers who will be working with the students in the fall. Therefore it is imperative to gather data quickly and efficiently. While United Way only receives anonymous student data, the teachers can utilize summer success student data to immediately prepare for supports to assist the students returning to school in September.
2) sharing compelling images alongside quantitative data is great - but add qualitative data to demonstrate the impact and reporting results as quickly as possible after the program ends to tell a well rounded story of impact to volunteers and investors is the ultimate goal
3) Because there are so many different data collection tools and methods, when working with 22 different camps we wanted to reduce the amount of variables and margin for error by utilizing one common tool, with consistent data fields and consistent training for the one teacher designated for data collection and reporting
4) UWR has a very complex database system that requires extensive training and does not allow external access
5) Because SS is now working with many schools in 6 school divisions throughout southern Saskatchewan, the ability to input the data in an effective and efficient way is valuable.
6) The system also put parameters around what data can be included and how it is input, therefore ensuring consistency of the data.
7) It also speeds up the collection of data and streamlines it so we don’t have to compile (preventing errors in doing so) and also allows for reporting back quickly to all stakeholders.
Explain what a datathon is
list of objectives tasked the groups to explore items of analytics
Data is structured, organized and accessible – this opens up oportunties for academic research and the distress cenres robust and regular analysis. Our experience with Data for Good has energized our curiosity about our data and what stories it can tell us.
We are convinced of the value and power of data – we’d like to pursue adding a data analyst role to our organization
We have been introduced to a variety of tools that could help us save time in analyzing data, to better present and show our findings and to look for correlations and trends that have previously gone unnoticed.
We were connected to an incredible group of knowledgeable volunteers who were passionate about our work and looked at our data with fresh eyes, prompting new ideas of how to approach some of our analysis, including what data we could access publicly to compare to.
6 Analytics teams in total
The tools and specialst are out there, the technology is out there.
So much unsexy work needs to happen.
Mindset – You have to make this work
Champion – Someone who can drive this
Questions – looking at data actually is a great way to get more questions. They new what they wanted to answer
Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) shows that the value of data can be dramatically increased when it is shared. Through data sharing we can see patterns and gain insights that would not be apparent if data remained closed in organizational silos. The report also shows that efforts are likely worth it – the benefits of a data strategy include using evidence to inform more responsive programs and services, learning and communicating about impact, and collaborating more effectively.
Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) shows that the value of data can be dramatically increased when it is shared. Through data sharing we can see patterns and gain insights that would not be apparent if data remained closed in organizational silos. The report also shows that efforts are likely worth it – the benefits of a data strategy include using evidence to inform more responsive programs and services, learning and communicating about impact, and collaborating more effectively.
Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) shows that the value of data can be dramatically increased when it is shared. Through data sharing we can see patterns and gain insights that would not be apparent if data remained closed in organizational silos. The report also shows that efforts are likely worth it – the benefits of a data strategy include using evidence to inform more responsive programs and services, learning and communicating about impact, and collaborating more effectively.
Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) shows that the value of data can be dramatically increased when it is shared. Through data sharing we can see patterns and gain insights that would not be apparent if data remained closed in organizational silos. The report also shows that efforts are likely worth it – the benefits of a data strategy include using evidence to inform more responsive programs and services, learning and communicating about impact, and collaborating more e
With the support of a Government of Alberta Ministry of Culture, Multiculturalism, and Status of Women grant, PolicyWise is working with the Alberta Nonprofit Network (ABNN) and other partners to continue the work on building the foundations for an Alberta Nonprofit Data Strategy. ffectively.
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