The City and County of Denver's approach to actionable intelligence with data - Hawkins, Denise, author; Schipper, Stacey, author; Society of Quality Assurance, publisher (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016)
Presented at the National data integrity conference: data sharing: the how, why, when and when not to share held on June 2-3, 2016 at University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado. The National Data Integrity Conference is a gathering of people sharing new challenges and solutions regarding research data and integrity. This conference aims to provide attendees with both an understanding of data integrity issues and impart practical tools and skills to deal with them. Topics addressed will include data privacy, openness, policy, education and the impacts of sharing data, how to do it, when to do it, and when not to. Speakers and audience members come from diverse fields such as: Academic Research; Information Technology; Quality Assurance; Regulatory Compliance; Private Industry; Grant Funding; Government.
Denise Hawkins oversees business intelligence, GIS, and data warehousing teams in the municipality's Technology Services Division. She is currently leading the effort to establish the policies and procedures of Denver's open data catalog, as part of the City's overall initiatives to improve both transparency and decision-making. From a technology perspective, Denise's teams are currently setting the national standard for state and local governments in the collection and presentation of data related to legalized marijuana and its impact on revenue, law enforcement, and licensing. Denise's extensive experience covers business intelligence, data warehousing, and enterprise data solutions in manufacturing, telecomm, and marketing. She has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Denver's Regis University, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Stacey is part of Denver's Enterprise Data Management Team that oversees complex data manipulation and analysis. She has an analytical chemistry background and started working on data as part of the implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System in the Everglades Restoration project. Stacey has a Bachelor's of Science Degree from the University of South Florida and a Master's of Science Degree in Information Technology Management from the Florida Institute of Technology. She is also taking classes at Johns Hopkins University in Government Analytics. Stacey is an avid member of the local tech community and leads several data-related groups including the Women Who Code Data Science group and Colorado Data Science. When she is away from her computer, you can usually find her up a mountain or registering voters.
PowerPoint presentation given on June 2, 2016.
Keywords: Denver's Data program; Bloomberg grant; open data; data outcomes; public data; analysis