Data Archiving and Analytics for Planning, Operations, and Safety

Length: Approximately 6 hours

Description

This course is designed to help you understand the benefits of creating an open and accessible data archive of your agency’s data. It will also explain the challenges you might face in trying to make your agency’s data more open and available to others, and ways in which you can mitigate those challenges. After showing you some real-world examples of how data can be leveraged for better decision making and analysis, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of building your very own archive, leveraging technologies that others have developed, or paying a consultant to help you with your archiving needs.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

Communicate the business cases for archiving data
Understand the importance of visual analytic s in making your archive more valuable
Identify real-world use-cases for leveraging archives for better decision making
Evaluate the pros and cons of different archive implementation strategies

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Contributor(s)

Michael Pack
Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) Lab