1. 1 Update on Strategic Planning and Innovation FSCPE September 27, 2006 Nancy M. Gordon Associate Director for Strategic Planning and Innovation U.S. Census Bureau Nancy M. Gordon Associate Director for Strategic Planning and Innovation U.S. Census Bureau

2. 2 The Data Problem Data typically stovepiped Integrated data more valuable; more expensive Rebundling, reprocessing, repurposing Getting “right” data Analyst vs programmer

3. 3 TheDataWeb is: An infrastructure for networking different databases together into a single virtual data warehouse that supports different… vendors file structures data types file security models

4. 4 DataFerrett Partner Agencies Australian Bureau of Statistics (National Data Network) Harvard University (Virtual Data Center) Centers for Disease Control (Environmental Health Network) Bureau of Labor Statistics National Center for Health Statistics

5. 5 DataFerrett Features Data integration Data manipulation and recoding Frequencies,cross- and multi- dimension (nested) tabulations Spreadsheet formulas Mapping and graphing Publishing to HTML and PDF HotReports – interactive Web pages

6. 6 HotReport Writer — Report Writing Tool (DataFerrett) — Allows analysts to create web pages and reports Creates reports by dragging and dropping

7. 7 Concept of Hot Reports TABLES “WHAT IF…?” CALCULATIONS MAPS CHARTS & GRAPHS DYNAMICALLY UPDATED TEXT

8. 8 Hot Reports Can Link to LED’s On the Map

9. 9 Contact Us Nancy M. Gordon@census.govGordon@census.gov Rickey.N.Bramblett@census.gov@census.gov DataFerrett Comments & Suggestions: http://thedataweb.org