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Embracing Questions and Data as Action Decisions

Although questions and data are often treated as nouns, reframing them as actions increases the value of knowledge work to organizational processes and change efforts.

This course is hyper-focused on the multiple decisions necessary for data processes to be both trustworthy and valuable to philanthropic missions.

Objectives

In this course participants will:

  • Seize the power of question and data decisions.
  • Explore trust as an essential aspect of data processes.
  • Distinguish the value in multiple data sources.
  • Link data in imaginative and robust ways.
  • Create compelling inquiry spaces.

Curriculum

Module One: Decision Making in Knowledge Work

  • Lesson 1: Surfacing the decisions of knowledge work
  • Lesson 2: Illuminating the power in questioning
  • Lesson 3: Diving into datamaking
  • Lesson 4: Clarifying analytic intentions

Module Two: Trust in Knowledge Processes

  • Lesson 5: Sharing data intentions
  • Lesson 6: Building data relationships
  • Lesson 7: Honoring lived experience
  • Lesson 8: Situating reflective data in knowledge process

Module Three: Multiple Data Sources

  • Lesson 9: Connecting with public data
  • Lesson 10: Formulating naturally occurring data
  • Lesson 11: Generating data from textual processes
  • Lesson 12: Crafting data through creative activities

Module Four: Data Linkages

  • Lesson 13: Using multiple data points
  • Lesson 14: Integrating data types
  • Lesson 15: Stringing data points as indicators
  • Lesson 16: Incorporating data layering

Module Five: Inquiry Spaces

  • Lesson 17: Creating cross-organizational spaces
  • Lesson 18: Creating learning possibility across power differences
  • Lesson 19: Creating strategy focus amidst operational responsibilities
  • Lesson 20: Designing for network learning