Technical Consulting & Education

We recommend starting with a free 30-minute consultation to evaluate your present needs and explore options in a risk and pressure-free environment.

Modern Data Solutions

Let our team guide you in creating modern integrated data solutions and applications that unlock new insights into program performance and increase efficiency. Our tailored approach begins with a deep-dive discovery to assess your current systems, identify solutions, and craft a detailed implementation plan. Every solution is designed to optimize the cost and performance of your tech stack while ensuring top-tier security and full compliance.

Accelerators

Transform your work with our suite of Accelerators, each designed to bring tangible value and efficiency to your agency.

Eliminate duplicate data entry, use generative AI to read and write documents, and automate data quality and compliance assurance checks.

Education & Training

Supporting your team members working with data is at the center of our work. We offer full courses, short-courses, and host webinars on a wide range of topics related to program evaluation.

We also offer a self-paced data bootcamp for social workers stepping into data-intensive roles that require a foundational knowledge of best-practices for data analytics.

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Education & Training

  • Intended for the social worker responsible for data analysis and reporting, this collection of self-paced courses equips students with the foundational skills of a data analyst. Lessons will be taught using R, SQL, and Power BI; however, the focus is the skill or task rather than the software. Students also gain access to our resource library, a dedicated Slack channel, and weekly office hours.

  • Course link.

    This is the R course for beginners with no coding experience. It is based on the latest research in online learning theory and my personal experience with dozens of online courses. I created this course as the course I wish I would have had when I first started learning R.

    We will code together and focus on the 20% of code responsible for 80% of the work. At the end of sections, you will have a 'Make It Stick' challenge to apply what you have just learned with a different dataset (based on principles in the book 'Make It Stick').
    In this course, you will learn to:

    • Load data from different sources (files, databases)

    • Structure data for analysis using the tidyverse packages

    • Quickly explore and visualize data trends

    • Conduct feature engineering for deeper analysis

    • Analyze survey data

    • Select the right visualization for your data

    • Create professional visualizations

    • Create and automate reports using RMarkdown

    Preview the course

  • Our team is available on a limited basis to provide technical consulting for existing clients. Please use the contact form and indicate your interest in technical consulting and specify the issue or question. A team member will reach out within one business day.

  • For teaching and speaking inquiries, please use the contact form and indicate the research fellow or staff member you are requesting.

ACCELERATORS

Our Accelerators merge tangible solutions with technical support. Each Accelerator presents a clear agency challenge, solution, impact, implementation plan, and review.

  • Challenge: Too much of your agency's data is stored in formats like PDF that are not machine readable. You need an automated solution to extract data from the documents and load into tables where the data can be queried and analyzed.

    Solution: An AI-powered text extraction engine that loads data into existing tables using key-value pairs using Snowflake or Google Cloud Platform.

    Impact: Significant time savings with increased data for analysis.

  • Challenge:

    Staff spend considerable time building similar reports that use consistent variables.

    Solution:

    A user-friendly automated reporting tool that generates professional reports at the click of a button using parameterized R Markdown reports.

    Impact:

    Professional reports on a regular schedule with significant time savings to staff members.

  • Challenge:

    Important insights are generated in R that need to be accessed by decision-makers with the ability to modify parameters.

    Solution:

    A highly accessible and user-friendly interface in Google Sheets built on an R Script using Plumber, Docker, and AWS.

    Impact:

    Increase your efficiency and save time by automating tasks in R that are usually done in Google Sheets while improving data accuracy and consistency. The solution also opens up the potential for advanced analytics and insights.

  • Challenge:

    Particular stakeholders (e.g., employees, referring agencies) need access to information in a more accessible format (including different languages) that a chatbot could facilitate. However, you need tighter controls over the responses.

    Solution:

    A custom AI chatbot trained on your content that can be placed on a website.

    Impact:

    A multilingual chatbot with 24/7 accessibility without the risk of hallucinations can provide improved access to important information while reducing the workload on employees.

MODERN DATA SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOCIAL SECTOR

Leverage the power of the modern cloud with top-tier security and HIPAA compliance to generate timely, reliable, and actionable insights from your data.

Strategy & Advisory

Data Engineering

BI & Analytics

Data Science & Advanced Analytics

Cost Optimization

Data Apps

AI & Machine Learning

Causal Inference

Managed Services to Help Desk

Our team holds the highest certifications on GCP, AWS, and Azure, along with Snowflake, dbt, and Power BI.