Federal IT Gets A Dashboard
This is bold (and if you are a data geek, it is CSV manna from heaven:)): a publicly viewable “dashboard” that shows the health of IT projects in the Federal Government.
You can check out the dashboard through this page or go directly to the dashboard and play around with the interactive charts. (Yes, full drill-down capabilities are included.)
Not only that, the website also lets you directly pull data from the sources and analyze it yourself.
Of course, like any other analytical system, the real work probably begins now: ensuring quality of data, timeliness of updates and all the other mundane details that high-paid consultants don’t want to work on 
But for this first step, hats off to the administration. The NY Times covered this story, as did ZDNet, which calls it “a great example of how to promote IT”.
Tags: Dashboards, Federal, general, IT