WE'RE INNOVATING
Our DataDriven Program
A BETTER APPROACH
DataDriven outlines the Choctaw Volunteer Fire Department’s approach to collecting data, maintaining data, and using data. Our approach has four main goals that aim to foster improvements within the technical, operational, and safety facets of fire department and the community at large.
DOCUMENT: Build an inventory of all department datasets.
ENGAGE: Build a system that encourages citizens and the department to use community data in creative ways to solve problems.
PUBLISH: Prioritize data for public release based on an established criteria of quality, public interest, and cost, with an understanding that privacy and security of data are our utmost concerns. We encourage citizens to provide use cases for any dataset that could prove useful to them. This input allows us to better prioritize the release of datasets.
PROMOTE: Highlight the work that citizens and the department do with community data.
DOCUMENT: Build an inventory of all department datasets.
ENGAGE: Build a system that encourages citizens and the department to use community data in creative ways to solve problems.
PUBLISH: Prioritize data for public release based on an established criteria of quality, public interest, and cost, with an understanding that privacy and security of data are our utmost concerns. We encourage citizens to provide use cases for any dataset that could prove useful to them. This input allows us to better prioritize the release of datasets.
PROMOTE: Highlight the work that citizens and the department do with community data.
STIMULATE NEW IDEAS AND SERVICES:
By collecting, purposefully maintaining and releasing open data, the department may help to stimulate new and innovative ideas from the community.
INCREASE SHARING:
Open data can also help us access information from other local, state and federal agencies that we need to improve or update service delivery. Combining information from different agencies can provide valuable knowledge about how our department works and how we may better serve those that live and work in Choctaw.
ENABLE BETTER AND MORE UP-TO-DATE PROCESSES:
The process of releasing open data will help us to realize the constraints of current department technology and processes and plan for future improvements.
CHANGE HOW WE USE DATA:
Ultimately, open data can serve as a platform to change how we use, share and consume our data externally and internally; transform data into better services for citizens, and foster continuous improvement.
By collecting, purposefully maintaining and releasing open data, the department may help to stimulate new and innovative ideas from the community.
INCREASE SHARING:
Open data can also help us access information from other local, state and federal agencies that we need to improve or update service delivery. Combining information from different agencies can provide valuable knowledge about how our department works and how we may better serve those that live and work in Choctaw.
ENABLE BETTER AND MORE UP-TO-DATE PROCESSES:
The process of releasing open data will help us to realize the constraints of current department technology and processes and plan for future improvements.
CHANGE HOW WE USE DATA:
Ultimately, open data can serve as a platform to change how we use, share and consume our data externally and internally; transform data into better services for citizens, and foster continuous improvement.
CHOCTAWlytics
Making our community safer with real data.
TYPES OF ANALYTICS
Predictive modelling can be used to pick out targets based on existing data sources.
New ways of using information to prioritize high-impact or easy-to-resolve situations.
Predicting need from historic patterns to inform predictive deployment or new services.
Recommendation tools can bring better, actionable data to operational decisions.
Improved efficiency from data-driven deployment of resources and assets.
Experimental testing to refine and improve services.
