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Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use

_. Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use. What’s it all about?. Engaging and Connecting:. Presenting:. Using:. Developers. DATA. Teachers. Students. Entrepreneurs. t he Public. Researchers. and. Challenges. Solutions!. Program Goals

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Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use

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  1. _ Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use

  2. What’s it all about? Engaging and Connecting: Presenting: Using: Developers DATA Teachers Students Entrepreneurs the Public Researchers and Challenges Solutions!

  3. Program Goals Raise awareness of the availability of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) Develop new and innovative ways to use VLDS Data Engage the public and increase transparency Apps4VA stems from a federal grant funded through ARRA “to support the development and implementation of a data system that tracks students from early childhood to post secondary and beyond.” The VLDS integrates student and workforce data from across the Commonwealth.

  4. Program Components BEST PRACTICES RESEARCH EVENTS COMPETITIONS Permission: Kin Lane Open Competition High School Competition

  5. Privacy-Protected Data • School Enrollment Data • Special Education Student Data • State Assessment Result Data (SOLS) • Career and Technical Education Program Data • Graduate, Completer, and Dropout Data • Postsecondary Enrollment and Completion Data Metadata are provided for each data element. Cell suppression rules are used when there are fewer than 10 students in a group. Use of other publically-available data sets for Mashups was encouraged.

  6. Events 100 participants / >30 mentors Education-related businesses 37 Pitches 13 Teams launched Let’s Get Snacks: Fresh fruit, dried fruit, beef jerky, ramen noodles, string cheese, chips, brownies, cookies, chicken nuggets, granola bars, candy DRESS CODE Hosted by: “I learned to tweet.”

  7. Events And the winners are … DATA PRIZEEdunomics: "The Freakonomics of Education."  A Microsoft-based online service that aggregates publicly available data for a visual representation of user-selected facts.  Graphically represents relationships such as how teen pregnancy affects dropout rates from unrelated datasets. Although the initial focus was education, Edunomics may be adapted for any industry.   

  8. Simultaneous Hackathons! 6:00 p.m. Friday 10/19 – 5:00 p.m. Saturday 10/20 Richmond Charlottesville Roanoke/Blacksburg Norfolk Linked Live via Webcast! $$ CASH PRIZES $$ Entries must use one or more of the required datasets here: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/research_data/index.shtml

  9. Simultaneous Hackathons! 27 individuals formed 12 teams VDOE staff served as mentors Prizes: Best in Commonwealth 2nd Place Regional Winners Hackers Choice

  10. Open Competition MUST USE ONE OR MORE EXPOSED EDUCATION DATASETS! CAN USE OTHER PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE DATA. $$ CASH PRIZES $$ Apps4VA Open Competition 15 Submissions Submitted

  11. High School Competition MUST USE ONE OR MORE EXPOSED EDUCATION DATASETS! CAN USE OTHER PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE DATA. $$ CASH PRIZES FOR STUDENTS AND THEIR SCHOOLS$$ Apps4VA High School Competition 11 Submissions Submitted

  12. Sponsors

  13. Apps Spinoffs CS 474: Database Design and Application James Madison University, Spring 2013 Semester April 5-7, 2013 Charlottesville, VA Student Codeathon! April 20, 2013

  14. What’s Next?

  15. Like Us/Follow Us! Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/apps4va Twitter: @apps4va Twitter Episodes: #datapreso www.apps4va.org Bethann Canada • Director, • Educational Information Management Virginia Department of Education Bethann.Canada@doe.virginia.gov

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