Eight Leading Practices to Enhance Interagency Collaboration and Address Crosscutting Challenges

U.S. Government Accountability Office

GAO’s eight leading practices for interagency collaboration include key considerations for collaborating entities to use when implementing them. This report also includes examples illustrating how the leading practices apply to a number of different collaboration challenges and successes, including the use of metrics.

Congressional Evidence-Based Policymaking Resolution

U.S. Congress

Bipartisan proposal to establish a new Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking to review, analyze, and make recommendations to Congress to promote its use of federal data for evidence-building and evidence-based policymaking.

Visualization Guide – A Quick Reference

Medium/Data-Driven Investor

Visualizing data is an essential skill for any data analyst; it allows you to communicate insights effectively and engage your audience. This guide helps you select which visual works best for the data you want to communicate.

Five Enablers for a New Phase of Behavioral Science

BehavioralScientist (Michael Hallsworth)

Behavioral science has seen a tremendous amount of growth and interest over the last decade, largely focused on expanding its uses and methods. My sense is it’s ready for a new phase of maturity. That maturity involves behavioral scientists reflecting on the various ways that their actions are shaped by structural, institutional, environmental, economic, and historical factors.

Second Annual Open Data Policy Summit (On-Line, June 12; 9am-12pm, ET)

Open Data Policy Lab

This virtual conference will take the form of three hours of panels and conversations on real-world examples of open data and data reuse initiatives from around the world.

Resource of the Week:  Transforming State Data Systems to Inform Decisions

Data Quality Campaign

This resource describes the types of data access that people need to successfully navigate decisions through education and the workforce, details four use cases in which Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems are necessary to support decisionmaking, and describes clear ways that state and federal leaders can take action to make this vision a reality.