Data-Driven Mission Insights Through Design-Driven Dashboards
The amount of data that is available now and is still becoming available creates a wealth of opportunity for Government agencies and organizations to improve decision-making. With more complex and large data sets at its disposal, the Government can use data visualization to help increase understanding of what data is showing and what it means. In other words, data can be used to tell a story and help the Government can make better decisions.
Data visualization helps increase overall understanding of very complex and large data. A channel for communicating insights through visualizations is through dashboards. There are two types of dashboards – analytical and operational. Analytical dashboards incorporate advanced analysis and models that help identify trends, generate predictions, and evaluate targets. Operational dashboards, on the other hand, allow for monitoring and analyzing activities at a detailed view that may lead to a deep-dive analysis on specific areas.
In the summer of 2019, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) publicly released truncated data related to flood insurance claims with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), an accomplishment within itself to standardize and release. Arc Aspicio’s Strategy Innovation Lab (SILab) produced a Tableau Dashboard as an example of an operational dashboard that can provide decision-makers or even public entities real-time insight and understanding into the impact of devasting disasters. The dashboard provides a brief overview of Hurricane Matthew, the NFIP, and visualizations of NFIP claims during Hurricane Matthew in the fall of 2016.
This type of visualization helps clients make mission-critical decisions. Data+Design adds the mission-focus so that data scientists don’t just show the collection of data, but that data translators tell a story with the data that help leaders gain insights and information. Data+Design goes beyond data quality and data wrangling and provides an innovative, iterative approach to creating visualizations that solve clearly defined problems.
Design+Data takes a human-centered approach to understanding what decision-makers need to translate data into insights. Data visualization prototypes help leaders identify what questions they can ask of the data so they can narrow down the questions and get to the answers that help them act.
So, what’s possible with your data? What does your dashboard need to look like? From hurricanes to pandemics to human trafficking, how can data help leaders get ahead of emerging challenges and threats?
