UW Profiles September 17, 2013

 Purpose  Genesis  Content  Access  Future INTRODUCTION 2

 Provides easy access to basic high-level trend data about university activities  Makes it easy to find information about a unit at any level of the organization  Consistent, accessible information fosters more productive discussions  Access to information encourages further analysis WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF UW PROFILES? 3

 Collaboration between the Office of Planning and Budgeting (Institutional Analysis) and UW IT (Decision Support Services)  Content and direction: OPB  Technology, platform, and data models: DSS  Visualization: Tableau software  Note: Info about Tableau will be available at the EDW Business Intelligence Special Interest Group, Thursday 9/26 from Info at: 26+EDW+BI+SIG+Meeting 26+EDW+BI+SIG+Meeting HOW WAS UW PROFILES CREATED? 4

 For now, academic data: student enrollment, course taking, academic progress, and degrees  Source: combination of EDW 1.0, EDW 2.0, PNBDB  Data as of AY  Trends based on snapshots updated once per quarter – purpose is analytical, not operational  This will be considered an official internal source for the information included, but it is not yet the source of official UW numbers reported externally.  For external institution-wide numbers, contact OPB  Note that these numbers will not match ABB numbers WHAT DATA ARE INCLUDED IN UW PROFILES? 5

 The goal is for all staff to have access to Profiles (within existing UW security model).  Two conditions must be met to have that access: 1. You have to be a part of the ASTRA security system To check your status, go to: 2. You will need to have access to the Tableau server. If you don’t, you can get to it by sending an to WHO HAS ACCESS TO UW PROFILES? 6

uwprofiles.uw.edu HOW DO I GET TO UW PROFILES? 7

 Today – soft launch  Still under construction  Full launch of first group of dashboards on October 14, following census day WHAT IS THE TIMING OF ALL OF THIS? 8

 Near-term: improve the user experience on current set of dashboards and provide support  By end of AY , add:  Addition of ABB dashboards  Financial resources  Application/admission data  Will require collaboration with other offices as we tackle new subjects (e.g. HR, research)  We hope to have Research info by end of  Following that, add staff, faculty and space data WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? 9

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