These slides were shared in support of the opening panel at a day-long convening of WDQI grantees in Washington, DC in March 2013.

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A Project of the US Department of Labor
The Emerging Workforce Data Ecosystem:
The New Strategies, Partners & Tools Helping Us
Get Smarter about Learning, Jobs & Careers

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A Project of the US Department of Labor
IMPACT SUSTAINABILITY

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A Project of the US Department of Labor

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“A dearth of mechanisms that
process and deliver data to people
is among the biggest gaps…if
there’s a need for government to
open more data, there’s an even
bigger need for someone to design
tools that make sense of the data
that’s already out there.”
Open Data’s Next Move,
Colin Wood, GovTech, March 2015

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Our own Weather Channel moment?
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Distinguished Panel
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Rachel Zinn
Director
Workforce Data Quality Campaign

9. State Data Systems: Progress & Possibility
Rachel Zinn
WDQC Director
March 12, 2015
WorkforceDQC.org

10. • Advocate for inclusive, aligned and market-relevant education
and workforce data that can help our nation’s human capital
policies meet the challenges of a changing economy.
• Promote federal and state reforms for data systems that provide
useful information for policymakers, students and workers,
business leaders and educators.
– State Blueprint with 13 key features of a high-quality data infrastructure
– Address federal legislation, funding and technical assistance
– Policy agenda developed by broad coalition of national organizations,
state leaders and technical experts across education/workforce spectrum
WDQC Mission

11. National Partners

12. Funders
Apollo Education Group
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Joyce Foundation
Lumina Foundation

13. State Progress
Good progress
• Interagency data governance
• State funding support
• Assess employment outcomes
Areas for improvement
• Measuring non-degree credentials
• Industry validation
• Skills gap analysis

14. State Efforts
• Data sharing agreements
• Legislation on wage record access
• Performance-based funding
• Tools for students/families/workers
Federal Developments
• WIOA training provider eligibility
• Measures in all programs
• College ratings proposal
• HEA reauthorization
State Blueprint:
Assessing Employment Outcomes

15. State Blueprint:
Cross-State Data Sharing
State Efforts
• Use of WRIS2 for colleges
• Regional data sharing
– WICHE, Western states
Federal Developments
• 2016 Budget: NDNH access, WIOA national database
• Use of tax data from SSA

16. State Efforts
• Pilots: CompTIA; Workforce Credentials Coalition
• NGA veterans licensing & certification
Federal Developments
• WIOA “recognized postsecondary credential”
• New questions on Current Population Survey
• 2016 Budget requests $15M for licensing studies
State Blueprint:
Industry-Recognized Credentials

17. Need to Demonstrate Data Impact
• Sustainability
• Privacy concerns
• SWEAP tools for informing policy
www.nationalskillscoalition.org/state-policy/state-workforce-and-education-alignment-project
• Return on Investment studies
Engaging Employers
• Chamber of Commerce paper
• WDQC research
Other Trends and Resources

18. Contact
Rachel Zinn, Director
rachelz@workforcedqc.org
202-223-8355, ext. 113
WorkforceDQC.org

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Distinguished Panel
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Neil Ridley
Director of State Initiatives
Center on Education & the Workforce,
Georgetown University

20. Integrated Data
for
Research and
Informed Action
Workforce Data Quality Initiative
March 12, 2015
Center on Education and the Workforce

21. Center on Education and the
Workforce
• Forecasts of educational demand
• Economic value of postsecondary education
and credentials
• Role of online job postings in understanding
the labor market
• Workforce trends in health care and STEM

22. Research and Policy Questions
• Understanding the Credentialing Marketplace
• Charting Career Pathways
• Using Predictive Analytics to Promote
Participant Progress and Success

23. The Credentialing Marketplace
• Growth in credentials that are not academic
degrees
• Policy and research interest in the measurement
of postsecondary outcomes
• Questions: What is the economic value of sub-
baccalaureate credentials? How much variation
by major/field of study? How much stacking of
credentials is there? What is happening to non-
completers?

24. Male certificate holders
working in their field of
study earn more than
those working out of field.
Female certificate holders
get a large in-field
earnings boost in
business/office work,
computer/information
services, and healthcare.

25. The Credentialing Marketplace
Data Gaps
• Non-credit student enrollment and related
data
• Third-party industry certifications data (ACTE
Certification Data Exchange and Workforce
Credentials Coalition)

26. Charting Career Pathways
• National and state interest in career pathways
and sector strategies (WIOA)
• Too little known about educational and labor
market outcomes
• Questions: What are successful career pathways
and for whom? Do participants advance to the
next level of education/employment? What are
longer-term outcomes of training?

27. Charting Career Pathways
Data Gaps
• Cross-program data linkages (to capture
individuals moving to and from adult
education, college-level programs and
workforce programs)
• Occupational information in the wage record
data collected from employers

29. Predictive Analytics
• Early stages of incorporating labor market
outcomes and applying data analytics to program
improvement
• Potential of using administrative data
(SLDS/WDQI)
• Questions: How does the mix/intensity of
program services affect employment outcomes?
What enrollment/co-enrollment/service patterns
are associated with positive outcomes?

30. CEW State Initiative
• Expertise in connecting education and
employment
• Analytic support at no cost to states
• Team of national experts with deep state
policy experience and knowledge of state
administrative data systems to provide
operational assistance

31. Operational Use of Data in 5 Areas:
1) Aligning program capacity with labor market
demand
2) Curriculum alignment with workforce
requirements
3) Individual job placement and skill gap
analysis
4) Counseling and career pathways
5) Business expansion and workforce quality

32. For More Information
Email Us | Neil.Ridley@georgetown.edu
Visit our website | cew.georgetown.edu
Follow Us on Twitter | @CntrEdWrkfrce
Find us on Facebook | Search: CEWGU
Center on Education and the Workforce

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Matt Bailey
Co-Director/Advisor/User Experience Design
Research Directors
Code for America DC Brigade
DC Office of Open Government
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

34. Open Data + Civic Hacking =
Smarter Government
MATT BAILEY
@MATTBAILEY0, @CODEFORDC

35. Code for DC
➔We are volunteer civic hackers working on local
issues and building civic engagement.
➔Founded in 2012, we now have over 1,200
members and about 20 active projects at any
given time.
➔Learn more:
http://codefordc.org
http://meetup.com/code-for-dc

36. Open data
(brace for nerdy impact)

37. Open Data is data that..
“anyone can freely
access, use, modify,
and share for any
purpose (subject, at
most, to requirements
that preserve
provenance and
openness).” 1
1 http://opendefinition.org/

38. 1.Open license
2.Free of charge
3.Open format

39. Open data is old news
The National
Weather
Service has
been
shipping
open data
since 1870.

40. Data itself isn’t insightful.

41. You probably use this every day.

43. The DIKW Hierarchy
"DIKW Pyramid" by Longlivetheux - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DIKW_Pyramid.svg#mediaviewer/File:DIKW_Pyramid.svg
← MERELY FACTS
← DESCRIPTIVE
← BELIEF STRUCTURING
← INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS

44. Hewing wisdom out of data is
way hard.

45. (even for government)

46. Humans are wiser when
we collaborate.

47. Time to call in the
civic hackers.

48. Hacking is good, heartwarming and nifty.
We’re talking about this
Quick, innovative solutions to longstanding
problems
..not this
Stealing folks’ identities for kicks and tricking
their teenage children into installing weird
viruses.

49. Okay. So then what’s civic hacking?
“Collaborating with others to create, build, and invent open
source solutions using publicly-released data, code, and
technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods,
our cities, our states, and our country.”1
1 http://hackforchange.org/page/about 2 http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/
“Civic hacking is people
working together quickly and
creatively to make their cities
better for everyone.”2

50. Where are the civic hackers?
We’re around.

51. Civic hackers are here to help.
Government
Organizers #socent Journalists
DesignersCoders UXers
Data
Scientists
Social
workers ..n
..civic hackers are a rich melange
of motivated awesomeness.
Government is hungry
for feedback, ideas and
help.

52. Civic Hacking == Co-learning

53. Civic hacking is a force extender for government
➔Free labor
➔Fresh insights
➔Data quality
improvements
➔Transparency
and
accountability
➔Visibility

54. Driving civic
engagement with DC's
Advisory Neighborhood
Commission system.
http://ancfinder.org/
ANC Finder

55. Ranking candidates
based on the
completeness of the
data that they file with
the DC Office cf
Campaign Finance
http://codefordc.github.
io/dc-campaign-finance-
watch/
DC Campaign
Finance Watch

56. District Housing lets
caseworkers help clients
apply for Section 8
housing by
automatically filling out
multiple PDF
applications using one
online form.
http://codefordc.github.
io/districthousing/
District Housing

57. Election map for DC's
2014 general election
created in participation
with DC’s NPR affiliate.
http://electionmap.wa
mu.org/
WAMU Open
Elections Map

58. Les conclusions finales

59. Open Data is enabling new
modes of public engagement
for government.

60. 1.Open your data.

61. 2. Hackers have super powers.

62. 3. Building engagement is
good government.

63. @mattbailey0
@codefordc
mbailey@codeforamerica.org
THANK YOU!

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Meet back here by 11:15
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