Connecting Data for Evidence-Based Policymaking
Providing public agencies with the opportunity to understand and analyze their data to develop effective policies for the public good.
Administrative Data Research Facility
Applied Data Analytics Training
External Researcher Enclaves
Collaborations for Change
Making positive impacts through collaborations across government agencies and jurisdictions.
Democratizing our Data Challenge
Funded by philanthropic organizations, the Democratizing our Data Challenge gave states an opportunity to develop data products and collaborate across jurisdictions. The Challenge was designed to develop and scale innovative product ideas for understanding public policy and programs.
Food for Thought Challenge
Sponsored by ERS and in partnership with Westat, the Coleridge Initiative conducted this data challenge inviting researchers and data scientists to use machine learning and natural language processing to help USDA more efficiently link data on supermarket products to nutrient databases. The outcome of the challenge will give USDA modern tools that will help the agency develop timely, objective, and high-quality linked data and facilitate its research on the costs of a healthy diet.
Creating a New Data Infrastructure for Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers: Data, Analysis, and Use
Funded by NSF through America’s DataHub, the Coleridge Initiative, the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University, and the Arkansas Department for Transformation and Shared Services, Division of Information Systems are working together to examine what different federal and state data sources can tell us about foreign-born scientists and engineers in the US. We’re comparing official statistics and looking for innovative ways to measure returns on US investments into these scientists.
Our Sponsors and Collaborators
About the Coleridge Initiative
The Coleridge Initiative is a nonprofit organization working with government agencies to ensure that data are more effectively used for public decision-making. We do this both by providing a platform to securely link confidential data within and across states and agencies, and by providing data literacy training to agency staff. Our platform is the Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF) which is a secure, FedRAMP-certified, cloud-based environment that enables government agencies to link their longitudinal data with other states and agencies.