Last year a report into the economic development agency's performance found its achievements were not clear because of inadequate data and poor evaluation.
"This requires a combination of increasingly sophisticated data, self-evaluation and local knowledge, " she said.
On initial evaluation, Big Data on Hadoop appears to be a great deal.
The data for this kind of evaluation could be distributed via a massive iTunes for charity, covering every nonprofit in America regardless of size, and it could be updated regularly.
They can provide data and transparency, research and evaluation, and political cover that permits local leaders to act, and they can scour their books to strike rules that hamstring hard-charging principals and superintendents.
Provide advice in respect to the SCC statistics and data throughout the Organization, to governments, regional offices and other statistical institutions on the statistical aspects of programmes and projects and the evaluation and analysis of data, as required.
Provide advice in respect to the Education Outcomes statistics and data throughout the Organisation, to governments, regional bureaus, and other statistical institutions on the statistical aspects of programmes and projects and the evaluation and analysis of data, as required.
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Our data can be helpful to starting an evaluation of nonprofits not on the list.
New empirical techniques in merger evaluation, fed by scanner data and advances in the econometrics of differentiated products, are genuinely productive tools for estimating the market power of merged firms.
But if industry wants to shine up a reputation dimmed by suspect behaviors of some of its own, voluntarily turning to independent evaluation and reporting of transparent data sets is one step toward polishing away some of that tarnish.
This was confirmed by the evaluation of the copies of the data provided by Google for the purpose of investigating the issue.
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In fact, as the Times account grudgingly documents, Feith's Counterterrorism Evaluation Group did nothing more than subject available classified data to an independent review.
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He said that student-achievement data is only one component of the district's teacher-evaluation system, which relies heavily on principal observations.
The continuing evaluation of potential safety signals at the FDA requires assessment of all available data from many sources, with the goal of reaching sound conclusions in a manner that is transparent to physicians and patients.
Such publication commonly leads to urgent calls to take immediate regulatory action, without acknowledgment of potential pitfalls in the interpretation of data from meta-analyses and pooled analyses, such as those encountered in the tiotropium evaluation.
Additional data from the 2008 and 2009 drafts show that NFL teams collectively have been remarkably good in their talent evaluation of quarterbacks taken in the first round.
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