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Data Foundation Testimony Takes Shape in Proposed Congressional Resolution

The Growth and Challenges of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Role and Agencies’ Data Maturity

Data Foundation Celebrates Five Years Since the U.S. Commission for Evidence-Based Policymaking,

5 Years of Evidence Commission: Progress Report on Building an Evidence-informed Society

A Progress Report on the Promise for a More Evidence-Informed Society More...

2022 Virtual Research Symposium: Assessing Capacity for Using Data to Build Actionable Evidence

New Directions for Evaluation

Special Issue: Evaluation Policy More...

Data Literacy for the Public Sector: Lessons from Early Pioneers in the U.S.

Statement on Bipartisan Proposal to Extend the CDO Council to 2030

Data Coalition Applauds the Creation of an Occupational Series for Data Science 2021

EAH-Reports

2021 Survey Results on Agencies’ Emerging Evaluation Capacity to Implement the Evidence Act

Federal Evaluation Officials 2021 More...

Former Co-Chairs of the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking Urge Congress to Support NSDS

12 Recommendations for the Chief Data Officers Council

Forum: CDO Mission and Vision

On November 9, 2021, the Data Coalition and data experts hosted a virtual public forum to discuss the mission, focus areas, and vision of the federal … More...

Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence-Building: Year 1 Report

Press Releases and Statements

Modernization of Congress

Written Statement from Nick Hart, President of the Data Foundation For the House Select Committee More...

4-Years Later, the Evidence Commission’s Impact Now Widespread in the U.S.,

Reports

CDO Insights: 2021 Survey Results On the Maturation of Data Governance in U.S. Federal Agencies

Reports

2021 Survey Results On the Maturation of Data Governance in U.S. Federal Agencies

CDO Insights More...

CDO Insights: Results from the 2021 Federal Survey of CDO

We hosted a discussion on September 23 to discuss the results of the new survey, how it compares to findings from last year and recommendations for th… More...

Knowledge Brokering between Research and Government

The urgency to share well-substantiated evidence on the effectiveness of policy interventions increases when policymakers worldwide share the same goa… More...

Building Federal Evaluation Capacity

A Discussion of the New White House Evaluation and Learning Agenda Guidance More...

Publications

Structuring the Chief Data Office for Success

Structuring the Chief Data Office for Success: Identifying Appropriate Organizational Placement and Structures for a Federal CDO More...

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Evidence Act at 2: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for 2021

The Data Foundation hosted a webinar on the law’s second anniversary, 1/14/21. The discussion covered the challenges the evidence community faces in i… More...

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