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What's on My Dashboard Today?:Governmentwide Acquisition Contract Dashboard

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/

December 13, 2012http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/Governmentwide_Acquisition_Contract_Dashboard

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Some Principles

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

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I Saw This

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

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I Went To This

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435

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I Waited For This

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435#

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I Decided I Needed This

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435#

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I Decided To Just Get The Excel Data

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435#

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But That Failed, So I Screen Scraped It(All 19, 186 rows by 18 columns!)

http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/20124/GWACDashboard.xlsx

And made a Data Dictionary

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Then I Imported Into Spotfire and

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GWACDashboard-Spotfire

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Re-Created the GWAC Dashboard Data

https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?GWACDashboard-Spotfire

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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.

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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.

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My Editor Published This

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

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I Got A Call From Francis Rose

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=38&query=Brand+Niemann&x=19&y=11