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Targets and public data

Measures, dashboards and public data in Wales and the UK.

Level
Bitesize
Learning time
1 hour 15 minutes
Where
Understanding Data and Data Analysis
Price
£39

When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

Most performance data reaches boards as a dashboard, and a dashboard is for decisions, not display. This module covers lag and lead indicators, Mark Friedman's Results-Based Accountability and its three questions, Audit Wales's review of how outcome information reaches Welsh council leaders, five features of a good dashboard, choosing honest charts and Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data, closing with five questions any board can ask. Many numbers that shape your decisions come from official statisticians, regulators and national surveys rather than your own organisation. This module maps who produces public data in Wales and the UK, from the ONS and StatsWales to Data Cymru, traces the move towards measuring well-being, reads the Wellbeing of Wales report, and shows why measures such as Tenant Satisfaction Measures differ across the border.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

  1. Design or review a dashboard backward from the decisions it must inform, balancing lag and lead indicators and Friedman's three questions.
  2. Choose a chart that fits the question being asked, and recognise the design choices that can make a chart mislead.
  3. Use five board questions to test any dashboard for purpose, signal and noise, gaps, gaming and action.
  4. Identify the main producers of public data in Wales and the UK, and use labels such as accredited official statistics to judge how far to trust a figure.
  5. Read national well-being indicators as a conversation rather than a score, drawing on long-term trends, different groups and local data.
  6. Apply the checks of source, method and border, together with careful benchmarking, before comparing figures across Wales and England.
What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 15 minutes of learning.

  1. 14Measures, Targets and DashboardsMost performance data reaches boards as a dashboard, and a dashboard is for decisions, not display. This module covers lag and lead indicators, Mark Friedman's Results-Based Accountability and its three questions, Audit Wales's review of how outcome information reaches Welsh council leaders, five features of a good dashboard, choosing honest charts and Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data, closing with five questions any board can ask.38 min
  2. 15Public Data in Wales and the UKMany numbers that shape your decisions come from official statisticians, regulators and national surveys rather than your own organisation. This module maps who produces public data in Wales and the UK, from the ONS and StatsWales to Data Cymru, traces the move towards measuring well-being, reads the Wellbeing of Wales report, and shows why measures such as Tenant Satisfaction Measures differ across the border.40 min
Where it fits

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Part of the Understanding Data and Data Analysis topic, also sold whole as Beyond the dashboard.

How credit works

Go deeper, and pay only the difference

  1. You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
  2. Next stepFocus, Data in a complex world, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
  3. Explore, Data for complex decisions, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
  4. The whole topicImmerse, Beyond the dashboard, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.

When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms

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