Rules

The purpose of this Viz-a-thon is to create a user-friendly, interactive, online tool that facilitates understanding of trends, correlations, and comparisons of different elements from the 2021 Employee Survey.

The Employee Survey is a Branch-wide survey that is analyzed and visualized each time it is administered. This year, we included items to assess the impact of COVID on individuals, telecommuting, perceptions of diversity, equity and inclusion, and Branch values: Transparency (in lieu of fairness), Respect & Integrity, Innovation, Safety, as well as the standard CourTools measures. These additional measures will allow us to perform additional analyses, and we want to make sure these results are easily understood by the Judicial Branch executive team, as well as our general workforce. Some research questions to be answered through this dashboard include:

·         How do these results compare to previous years?

·         How did the pandemic impact the Branch?

·         How did telecommuting impact the Branch?

·         How does the Branch feel about diversity, equity and inclusion?

·         How do groups (departments, demographic groups, etc.) experience working at the Judicial Branch, especially related to our values, and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts?

Your task is to work with your assigned team to develop a SAS report or interactive dashboard intended to allow users to customize the display of data so that it best answers their questions. Users should be able to sort and filter data to focus on specific issues of interest and characteristics in the dataset.
Teams:

Anne, Brian, Cory

Donna, Ethan, Frances

Greg, Haley, Isaac

Timeline

February 19 – Viz-a-thon Announced

February 22 – Viz-a-thon channel added in Teams

February 23 – Q & A session last 15 minutes of Brown Bag meeting

March 12 – Data will be sent to all participating team members at the same time. The data will include data from 3 survey administrations, and a data dictionary.

March 25– Present your final solution at Brown Bag meeting. You will have up to 15 minutes to present, and up to 5 minutes for audience questions.

March 26 – Winning team announced. The winning team may be required to make some adjustments before presentation to the Executive Team.

April 12 - Winning team present results to Executive Team.

After April 12 – Adjustments may be needed based on executive feedback. The goal is to present this data as the first DIA dashboard on our department SharePoint site.

Rules

This is an assignment; your participation is not optional. Your team may begin working on concepts before 2021 employee survey data is available.

Results must be presented in SAS.

You may not share the Employee Survey data with anyone outside your team or the DIA. All files must be labeled as DRAFT until we are ready to finalize a product.

The audience for these reports and dashboards is the Judicial Branch workforce for the Judicial Branch, not specific departments.

The dashboard must at least produce the information produced on CWW for previous surveys, and should help answer the following research questions:

·         How do our CourTools results compare to previous years?

·         How do our values results compare to previous years?

·         How did the pandemic impact the Branch?

·         How did telecommuting impact the Branch?

·         How does the branch feel about DE&I?

·         Did some groups (loosely defined) experience 2020 differently than others?

You may not ask the judges for any guidance or preferences. If you believe a judge’s assistance is absolutely necessary, contact Michelle Dunivan, to determine the most fair and useful way to move forward.

Teams may not interfere with the progress of other Teams.

As always, we must abide by our Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics. You will be judged on:

·         How many questions were answered, and how thoroughly

·         Use of interactive functions, like filters, slicers, etc.

·         Ability to show APD, JPD, SUP data separately and all together

·         Visual appeal, like color, white space, and formatting

·         Ease of navigation

·         Ability to compare responses to each other individually, compare scales to each other, compare responses across years, compare responses across departments

A detailed judging rubric is forthcoming.