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- Context. Provide a short paragraph with some background context for your request, please include links to relevant material.
There is a Data Strategy Planning offsite planned for mid-November 2024. Members of the Data Platform Engineering team would like to conduct a series of interviews across the foundation to understand how data is used and then use this information to take to the offsite to help inform our data strategy.
- Description.What is your request about?
On July 29th @lbowmaker, @VirginiaPoundstone, @Ottomata, @Milimetric and @dchen met to discuss our approach to conducting interviews across the foundation on how data is used. We reviewed a list of questions, discussed generally our approach and what would help us achieve our goal. It was felt that members of the DPE could conduct the interviews objectively but it would be very beneficial if someone who is not part of our team could objectively look at the results to find common themes and threads. We felt if we did this we may be biased towards certain areas that we see as high priority problems.
Link to meeting notes with design research
Link to draft questions in interview notes doc
Data Platform Strategy Kickoff doc
- Expected Deliverable. What is the ideal outcome or result of your request?
- Review and comment on our list of proposed questions (currently being done)
- When results are ready, synthesize them and provide an output report of general themes
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Not known.
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Based on the timelines described below it will help us to have an unbiased view of data usage issues across the foundation.
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The planning meetings are scheduled for mid-November. Would it be reasonable to conclude our interviews in early October and have this work done by early November?
- Other. Do you have any other questions or comments ?
No
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