The Harris County Office of Performance and Data and the Office for Human Resources and Risk Management are launching the Harris County Data Fellows Program to empower County government agencies to improve their services to citizens through data-driven decision-making. Talented data analysts will collaborate with County leaders to tackle key data challenges through operational guidance, performance tracking, county-wide support, and automation. Data Fellows seek data-driven performance in County government and are dedicated to improving services rendered to the citizens of Harris County.
Program success will be measured through consideration of the following components: the number of projects achieving success metrics, the number of Data Fellows in a full-time role with the County after the completion of the program, and cost savings and revenue accretion from projects. The Data Fellows project will assist in providing operational guidance, help departments build data tools and reporting to manage day-to-day operations, offer performance tracking, support performance reporting for budget process and department meetings, build integrations for reporting on County-wide measures, and create workflows to connect different data sources for better reporting. With streamlined data processes, the County will be better informed and thus better able to make decisions that can optimize future performance.
Target goals of this program include:
The Data Fellows will measure the success and sustainability of projects, dashboards, process improvements, and procedures of analysis.