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Data

Use information to deliver better decisions, services, and outcomes

Standards and principles
California Data Standard

How California consistently collects, analyzes, and reports data on race and ethnicity

Guides and playbooks
Data minimization and privacy toolkit

Collect, store, and share information safely and responsibly

Guides and playbooks
Interagency Data Exchange (IDEA) Guidebook

Help for implementing an agreement that makes it easier to share data between state entities

Training
Introduction to Power BI Desktop for government

Learn how to automate data preparation and make interactive reports

Papers
Marketing to mortgages: Combining data to improve housing outcomes for Californians

ODI helped CalHFA use marketing data to see how campaigns affected loan applications

Papers
Making local population estimates more efficient to support resource allocation

ODI helped the Department of Finance make small-area population estimates faster and more reliable

Papers
Developing trustworthy monitoring data

ODI built an outlier detection tool to interactively assess environmental monitoring data quality

Papers
A data-driven approach to detecting cash benefit theft

ODI built a predictive model to detect illegal debit card transactions

Papers
Building housing intelligence for California

How ODI built a tool to more accurately track the housing development pipeline to build more housing faster

Papers
Enabling analysis of California’s hiring and recruitment data

How ODI and CalHR increased analysis capabilities for the Examination & Certification Online System

Papers
Forecasting community water system outages

How ODI forecasted the impact of drought on community water systems