1. What's on My Dashboard Today?: Governmentwide Acquisition Contract Dashboard Dr. Brand Niemann Director and Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Scientist Semantic Community http://semanticommunity.info/ AOL Government Blogger http://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/ December 13, 2012 http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/Governmentwide_Acquisition_Contract_Dashboard 1

2. Some Principles Everything can be improved. Get the best people to work on improving it. Never give up. – Source: TIBCO President Vivek Ranadive 2

3. I Saw This 3 http://gov.aol.com/2012/11/27/gsa-launches-dashboard-tracking-governmentwide-acquisition-contr/

4. I Went To This 4 http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435

5. I Waited For This 5 http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435#

6. I Decided I Needed This 6 http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435#

7. I Decided To Just Get The Excel Data 7 http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435#

8. But That Failed, So I Screen Scraped It (All 19, 186 rows by 18 columns!) 8 http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/20124/GWACDashboard.xlsx And made a Data Dictionary

9. Then I Imported Into Spotfire and 9 https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GWACDashboard-Spotfire

10. Re-Created the GWAC Dashboard Data 10 https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GWACDashboard-Spotfire

11. I Got the Following Results I used my Spotfire Dashboard to explore the data and found the following highlights: – There are 51 agencies/programs listed but only 47 have data. – There are 5 contract types, 522 Industry Partners, and 10 years of data. – The Department of Defense has the highest total entries (2552), but the Department of State has the highest sum total estimated value of contracts (over $80 B). – SAIC is the leading industry partner (FAS Alliant GWAC of over $70B) out of a total of over $338 in contracts for all 522 Industry Partners. 11

12. Conclusions A Spotfire Dashboard is superior to Flash in the following ways: – Much faster performance due to in-memory analytics - I had to wait forever for the GWAC Dashboard to display different tabs and then query data. – More visualization types - I was able to create a sorted bar chart and dynamic cross-table that can then be searched by the Filters and displayed in the Details- on-Demand. Stay tuned for my next What's on My Dashboard Today. 12

13. My Editor Published This 13 http://gov.aol.com/2012/12/10/the-pros-and-cons-of-gsas-acquisition-contract-dashboard/

14. I Got A Call From Francis Rose 14 http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=38&query=Brand+Niemann&x=19&y=11