THE ANCHOR DASHBOARD Envisioning an online hub for anchor/community metrics May 20, 2015 Anchor Dashboard Cohort Meeting Baltimore John Duda, PhD Communications Coordinator The Democracy Collaborative

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers Create compelling visualizations of Dashboard data over time, helping Cohort members identify the models and best practices that really moved the needle

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers Create compelling visualizations of Dashboard data over time, helping Cohort members identify the models and best practices that really moved the needle Provide two primary views of the Dashboard data….

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers Create compelling visualizations of Dashboard data over time, helping Cohort members identify the models and best practices that really moved the needle Provide two primary views of the Dashboard data…. Aggregated by Indicator, to help identify which Cohort institutions are innovating in specific sectors

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers Create compelling visualizations of Dashboard data over time, helping Cohort members identify the models and best practices that really moved the needle Provide two primary views of the Dashboard data…. Aggregated by Indicator, to help identify which Cohort institutions are innovating in specific sectors Aggregated by Institution, to provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges each institution faces, and the strategies they are using to meet them

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers Create compelling visualizations of Dashboard data over time, helping Cohort members identify the models and best practices that really moved the needle Provide two primary views of the Dashboard data…. Aggregated by Indicator, to help identify which Cohort institutions are innovating in specific sectors Aggregated by Institution, to provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges each institution faces, and the strategies they are using to meet them Allow Cohort institutions to supplement the visualized data with sources and qualitative accounts that tell the story behind the numbers

Goals Provide an online space, available to Cohort members, to submit and view their own Dashboard data and the data provided by their peers Create compelling visualizations of Dashboard data over time, helping Cohort members identify the models and best practices that really moved the needle Provide two primary views of the Dashboard data…. Aggregated by Indicator, to help identify which Cohort institutions are innovating in specific sectors Aggregated by Institution, to provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges each institution faces, and the strategies they are using to meet them Allow Cohort institutions to supplement the visualized data with sources and qualitative accounts that tell the story behind the numbers Allow easy export of data and visualizations for use by Cohort institutions.

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Questions Should the system be designed so that Cohort institutions input their own data, or do they provide raw data to Cohort facilitators who manage entry of data into the online system? Is this framing of the data (by Indicator/by Institution) useful? How much normalization is necessary around data that compares institutional efforts? Should, for instance, budget expenditures on a community program be normalized to total institutional spend? Is this approach, where a curated set of visualizations is presented, sufficient? Or do we need to also provide Cohort users with the ability to develop custom visualizations that combine arbitrary sets of indicators? What does an implementation roadmap look like?