Data Visualization Governance Subcommittee Goals
General
- Develop, prioritize, and implement a set of BI principles, objectives, and actions for IDOH.
- Create strategies and guidelines to improve business intelligence development.
- Create guidelines for how to develop and publish visualizations.
- Ensure transparency regarding business intelligence efforts, including communication of success stories.
People
- Engage stakeholders across IDOH to develop holistic strategies and guidelines for dashboards.
- Establish the BI team as Subject Matter Experts for the agency.
Process
- Develop processes to implement standardized roles, responsibilities, style guides, design guidelines, and development phases for visualization projects.
- Develop a process to set expectations across teams before dashboard development.
- Develop a process to intake, track, and prioritize dashboard development work.
- Develop a process to efficiently complete all phases of dashboard development.
Technology
- Define AD groups on Tableau server to uniformly provide privileges.
- Discuss other BI tools used across IDOH to apply visualization best practices.
- Track Tableau Desktop licenses to efficiently manage and allocate across IDOH.
Innovation
- Foster environment where Tableau users can work collaboratively.
- Find opportunities to share our BI work with the public at local, regional, and national conferences/events.
Our Results
The BI COE will empower Tableau users, educate new users and to encourage team members to seek out resources and support from ODA.
Giving transparency and resources to individuals requesting support will ultimately produce high quality data visuals that impact public health. And effective data dashboards will create easy-to-understand visuals and stories for IDOH and the public to consume to gain a deeper understanding of health data.