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id: "workshop:skills-turning-analysis-into-decision-relevant-information"
type: "InnovateUS workshop (upcoming, live online)"
title: "Skills: Turning Analysis into Decision-Relevant Information"
url: "https://innovate-us.org/skills-turning-analysis-into-decision-relevant-information"
date: "2027-03-03"
duration: "60 minutes"
series: "From Evidence to Impact: Skills, Stories, and Spaces in State and Local Government"
source: "InnovateUS (innovate-us.org)"
licence: "CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as stated on innovate-us.org"
---

# Skills: Turning Analysis into Decision-Relevant Information

InnovateUS workshop · 3 March 2027 · 60 minutes · upcoming: registration on the workshop page

Quantitative and qualitative analysis does not automatically answer the questions facing state and local governments. Staff must determine which questions to ask, assess the quality of available evidence, examine policy and program alternatives, and communicate tradeoffs.

This session explores how government practitioners use analytical skills to connect evidence with decisions and societal outcomes. Participants will examine how staff assess alternatives using the 4E's: effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and ease of political acceptability.

Speakers could draw on policies and programs involving energy planning, environmental protection, public health, infrastructure, emerging technologies, or economic development. The session will also consider how stories can identify questions that an analysis should address and how community conditions affect the relevance of findings

Part of the series From Evidence to Impact: Skills, Stories, and Spaces in State and Local Government.

Register on the workshop page: https://innovate-us.org/skills-turning-analysis-into-decision-relevant-information

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Original page: https://innovate-us.org/skills-turning-analysis-into-decision-relevant-information · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as stated on innovate-us.org