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THE GROWTH IN DATA PRODUCTION COLLECTION:
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Tracey Gyateng, NPC. Twitter: @tgyateng
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Data- Small/Big/open/admin……
• A bit about me and NPC
• Why is it relevant to me?
• What are the challenges?
• How can we make more use of data?
• Questions?
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NPC: TRANSFORMING THE SOCIAL SECTOR
3 NPC works at the nexus between non-profits and funders Non-profit Sector Funder Increasing the impact of non-profits eg, impact-focused theories of change Strengthening the partnership eg, collaboration towards shared goals Increasing the impact of funders
eg, framing issue & mapping needs
Consultancy Think tank
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DATA ZEITGEIST
Big push from UK government to be seen as world leaders
– Open Data White Paper/ Shakespeare review – Open Data Institute
– Open Government Partnership
– But concerns about recent Commission on FOI
• Data sharing initiative led by Cabinet Office & Involve- datasharing.org.uk
• International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
• 360 degree giving (Indigo Trust, Nesta, Nominet Trust)
• Increased development of tools and interactive infographics e.g JRF Data, Shelter Housing Databank, HACT Community Insights
• ESRC Big Data network- creating research centres
– Administrative Data; Local Government; Business; Third Sector?
• Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data & Methods
(WISERD) = More academic interest in the third sector
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DATA, THE NEW OIL?
Data & voluntary sector 5
• Understand/predict needs/issues better e.g. needs mapping
• Campaigning
• Improve operational effectiveness in service delivery or support
functions e.g. engaging supporters, fundraising, identifying areas for service provision
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WHY IS DATA RELEVANT TO CHARITIES? (1/3)
Source: http://openhealthdata.cdehub.org/ 6
To understand need & scenario planning e.g Diabetes
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WHY IS DATA RELEVANT TO CHARITIES? (2/3)
To improve operational effectiveness in service delivery or support
functions
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• Birmingham Library using data from social media to understand how people interact with the library
• National Biodiversity Network Gateway- an open data repository for wildlife data https://data.nbn.org.uk/ e.g Pond Conservation Trust
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WHY IS DATA RELEVANT TO CHARITIES? (3/3)
To improve understanding of outcomes and impact e.g. Justice Data
Lab
Source: http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab 8
Individual level data
Provider organisation
MoJ
Matching and analysis
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Results taken from Ministry of Justice
Justice Data Lab statistics: October 2013
•Short term, full-time employment contracts. Aims to move them into full-time employment elsewhere.
•72 offender records for which re-offending data was available could be matched to offenders with similar characteristics
• A reduction in re-offending between 1 and 23 percentage points. This reduction is statistically significant
SPECIFIC REPORT – BLUE SKY
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
Blue Sky (72 records) Matched Control Group (212,131 offender
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BARRIERS TO USING EXTERNAL DATA?
Data & voluntary sector 10
Access
Cannot reliably get access to available data.
Do not understand the datasets they access. Availability
Datasets are not open, or there is no process for requesting data (eg, for sensitive data).
Awareness
Unaware that data is available.
Capability
Do not recognise the potential of data, or have a vision of what could be achieved with it.
Do not have the skills to analyse data or understand the results.
Incentives
There are few incentives to overcome the barriers to accessing and using data. Desire
Data can be
disruptive: some may not want to risk
negative results.
Capacity
Do not have the time or money to invest in data.
Supply Demand
Privacy & Ownership
Releasing data safely. Ethics: Ensuring no harm
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HOW DO WE MAKE MORE USE OF DATA? (1/2)
Supply
• Engage with initiatives relating to opening data both within and
outside the sector
• Explore & develop ethics of data ownership, access and use
• Government needs to extend beyond open data, to allowing access to
sensitive data while complying with confidentiality requirements.
Demand
• Create a culture that supports and even encourages attempts to use
data to better understand how charities operate
• Funders and commissioners must take steps to incentivise use of
data
• More case studies needed to raise awareness of the impact that data
can have
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HOW DO WE MAKE MORE USE OF DATA? (2/2)
• Charity sector needs to develop and attract more analytical skills to
enable charities to use the data available
– Use free resources to help increase data skills (Massive Open Online Courses- MOOCs), such as the Open Knowledge Foundation’s School of Data and statistics and Khan Academy or data analysis courses taught by academics e.g. Coursera
– Charities can recruit volunteer data analysts or IT specialists e.g.
DataKind, Pro Bono Economics, Pro Bono Operational Research, NCVO and Govt statisticians
– Active community of data and IT specialists who recognise the skills
shortage esp within the non-profit sector and who are keen to build tools to make it easier e.g. Nominet Trust, Data Unity, Mastodon C
– Approach academic departments e.g. UK Data Service, Administrative Data Research Centre
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QUESTIONS FOR YOU
• DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MAKING THE MOST USE OF YOUR
DATA?
– PLEASE SHARE HOW YOU ARE USING IT
• WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS FOR YOU IN USING DATA?
• HOW DO WE SUPPORT THE SECTOR TO BECOME MORE
ENGAGED WITH USING DATA?
• HOW CAN YOU SHARE THE RESULTS OF YOUR DATA
ANALYSIS?
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CLOSING THOUGHTS
• Data expansion is exciting (I would say that!)
• Data is incredibly powerful to:
– Understand need & scenario planning/prediction – Campaigning
– Improve operations/service delivery – Evaluate & measure impact
• More sharing of HOW data is being used is needed
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YOUR DATA/Small data IS KEY
[email protected]
www.NPCDataLabs.org
Twitter: @tgyateng
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