Is the amount of data available to you these days daunting? Are there now too many reports, also? Here’s help getting the right data in the right report to respond to your real questions and to inform your looming decisions. These reports might even indicate the best action to take. Actionable reports convert data into visualizations and insights that inform a decision and enlighten the appropriate action to take. This seminar summarizes best practices for delivering actionable reports. The process to follow and the systems approach to defining questions, actions, and required data are presented and discussed. After this seminar, you will approach all future analytics and reports with a focus and purpose that will result in their getting either the most clicks and/or being the most dog-eared—depending upon the media you embrace.
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#ESPTwiminar1: Action Reports-Follow tweets w/ insights about producing #actionablereports that respond to decision makers’ real questions
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#ESPTwiminar1.1: Available #data have grown exponentially with #automatedsystems: #SISs, #LMSs, #assessments, #administrativesystems.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) September 26, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.2: We may have too much #data. Sources collect & give access to #timelydata, but maybe not actionable insights.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) September 26, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.3: These #transactionaldata overwhelm users who try to make sense out of them. Too granular or too normalized for typical user
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) September 27, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.4: Realtime,process,transactionaldata too detailed to inform decisions outside a classroom. FERPA issues invoked for providers
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) September 27, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.5: #Processdata might be provided/mined for research projects to avoid collecting new #data. #Datagovernance processes needed.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) September 27, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.6: #Data usage evolved institutionally: #accountability #accreditation, #complexfundingformulas, #governmentmandates.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.7: #Institutional designs do support #SLD, but the #data are primarily for #mandates, not decision support.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.8: These #funding #sources often have their #interests #mandates as a priority rather than the questions of other #users.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.9: Usage of #data has been stymied by the challenge of how to cherry pick valuable nuggets from #terabytes of #data.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.10: #Dashboards, #BI, & #querysystems can provide users too many ways to #filter, #slice, #dice. Some may be inappropriate.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.11: Some breakouts chosen by users might be inappropriate views of the #data and lead to misuses or just be a waste of time.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.12: #IT #agencies shouldn’t be focused on giving users ALL #analyticpower, but on giving them the right #reports & #data.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.13: Too often #reports are designed around #available #data rather than what people need to know or would use.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.14: Too many #BI #dashboards throw all available #data out there in all views possible without #alignment with needs.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.15: To ensure #usage, a #report needs to look at what the original question was rather than providing enhanced breakouts.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.16: The right #data may be #available, need to be #collected, or just may need to be #compiled for access in a new way.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.17: #Data now #collected may be just what #decisionmaker needs, but they must be better organized in #database for #access.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 3, 2016
A #metadatadictionary provides #datagovernance communication tools to inform users of available #data & real definitions of data and #stats.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.19: Effective #datagovernance ensures #report #design starts with a #question or #action to determine the #data needed.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.20: #Datagovernance group should ensure approved #data #collections are #aligned with #mandates.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.21: #Datagovernance group should ensure #collections are aligned with #data #elements required to answer stated questions.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.22: #Datagovernance group should ensure reports are aligned with the original questions/actions they were intended to address.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.23: #Data are not actionable. #Reports and #visualizations present #data to answer questions and inform #action.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.24: #Data may be too #granular to be useful; need to be transformed to useful #metrics and #indicators for groups.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#Data for individuals are actionable when presented timely in a usable medium/format. #Personally #identifiable #data invoke #FERPA issues.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 5, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.26: 1st 4 steps: State a #decision/#question; define an #indicator, a #thresholdforaction & #requireddataelements.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 10, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.27: Next steps: Identify #datacollections and #datarepositories for managing the #data required for #reporting.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 10, 2016
Standard definitions in an agency’s #metadatadictionary allow users to follow #dataelements in the entire information ecosystem.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
Detail in #metadatadictionary allows #dataproviders, #managers, #users to agree on their #definitions, #interpretation, and appropriate use.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.32: #Metadatadictionary holds business rules that ensure #dataquality from #collection to #storage, to #reporting.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
Business rules/formulas are used to check accuracy, completeness, validity of data for collection, transformation, storage, & reporting.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.34: Final Steps: Determine the #action at each #threshold; define #report #format(s); #define #reportaccess(es).
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.35: #Actionreports can be scheduled to be on-demand, on schedule, or as #data become available.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.36: Don’t rely on #standardtemplates. Your legislature, official statistics, #P20W #SLDS, and questions require more.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016
#ESPTwiminar1.37: #Standardtemplates may provide noise (useless info) making the true info targeting a decision or action harder to find.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) October 11, 2016