Start Date:
-Summary:
This course is designed to help you understand the benefits of creating an open and accessible data archive of your agency’s data. It will also explain the challenges you might face in trying to make your agency’s data more open and available to others, and ways in which you can mitigate those challenges. After showing you some real-world examples of how data can be leveraged for better decision making and analysis, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of building your very own archive, leveraging technologies that others have developed, or paying a consultant to help you with your archiving needs.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Communicate the business cases for archiving data
- Understand the importance of visual analytic s in making your archive more valuable
- Identify real-world use-cases for leveraging archives for better decision making
- Evaluate the pros and cons of different archive implementation strategies
Cost:
$250; FREE for U.S. local, state, regional, metrop
Instructors:
Michael Pack, Director, Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) Lab
Event Type:
Technical Sessions
Organizational Capability Element:
Performance Management
Planning
Performance Measurement
Operations Area of Practice:
Simulation Analysis
Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
Regional environmental data sets and models
Role in Organization:
Transportation Planner
Senior Engineer
Researcher/Academic
Principal Engineer
Manager / First Line Supervisor
Director / Program Manager
CEO / GM / Commissioner
Engineer
Senior Manager
Transit Professional
Associate Engineer