Data Insight ServiceIntroduction for TfWM Professionals

Introduction

• New Data Insight Service

• Data increasingly important for…

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Main content: Tableau, Smartsheets, GIS and FME

• We want you to exploit but also help explore new opportunities

Data

•Operational

•Data collection, collation and presentation

Analysis

• Strategic

•Analysis and insights

•Professional consultancy services

Forecasting

• Strategic

•Modelling scenarios

Tableau“The Power to Interact”

• Tableau is a business insight tool that helps bring your data to life visually and interactively.

Tableau“The Power to Interact”

• Tableau is used to exploit data such as road traffic collisions, congestion and land use data in order to better understand and derive insight into the problems within the West Midlands.

Tableau“The Power to Interact”

• It has the benefit of being a widely accessible tool, with an online platform, is user-friendly, highly visual, interactive and quick and simple to use.

Smartsheets“The Power to Collaborate”

• Smartsheet is project management tool designed to enable the collaborative collection and management of project related data.

Smartsheets“The Power to Collaborate”

• Smartsheet is used to ensure the data relating to the transport, housing and employment programme is kept up to date and available to those who need it in a variety of outputs.

Smartsheets“The Power to Collaborate”

• It has the benefit of providing a live, up to date ‘single source’ of the truth, via an online accessible platform that is simple to use. Integration with other platforms and programmes also enables this ‘single entry’ data to be exploited elsewhere.

GIS“The Power to Visualise”

• Mapping resources include QGIS and Esri software.

• QGIS is powerful open source software for processing and analysing data geographically, adding insight, informing policy.

GIS“The Power to Visualise”

• Esri ArcGIS Online way to share dynamic maps internally

• This map helps the bus team handle enquiries about travelcards.

GIS“The Power to Visualise”

• Maps for the Mayor showing new transport links and deprivation and Swift team to understand location of Metro users.

Feature Manipulation Engine (FME)“The Power to Translate”

• FME is the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data. Commonly known as an Extract, Translate and Load (ETL) tool.

Feature Manipulation Engine (FME)“The Power to Translate”

Work flow design and development Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Read in XML files, selecting specific data for extract for tableau dashboard

Feature Manipulation Engine (FME)“The Power to Translate”

• Websites allow users to select a geographical area for which to downloadspecific types of data.

Cordon Counts /

RTC Data

Downloaders

Imagination Capture

• What opportunities do you imagine?