Panel 4: Amplifying Delta Voices Through Public Data
Location
Lewis 301
Start Date
19-7-2018 1:00 PM
Description
Data matter for development. Government agencies, businesses, and non-governmental organizations sometimes use data about people and the places where they live to characterize, categorize, and analyze what has happened in the past, current situations, and potential future pathways. Organizational leaders use demographic and socioeconomic data to make the case for investments in development. With rapid increases in the use of computers and the Internet coupled with expanded computational power, data have proliferated exponentially in the socalled “digital” and “big data” era. Not only are more data being collected and stored, there is an increase in the requirements for reporting and utilizing data to inform development decisions. This includes demands for evidence-based practice and data-driven policies. Within this context, the panel will focus on efforts to engage community and regional development practitioners and researchers with publicly available data sources. The speakers will discuss future efforts planned to increase participation rates for the 2020 Census, thereby “amplifying” Delta voices.
Moderator: John J. Green. University of Mississippi, Center for Population Studies
Panelists: Heather Hanna. Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center; Rachel Welborn. Mississippi State University, Southern Rural Development Center; Lynn Woo. University of Mississippi, Center for Population Studies
Relational Format
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
Green, John; Hanna, Heather; Welborn, Rachel; and Woo, Lynn, "Panel 4: Amplifying Delta Voices Through Public Data" (2018). Delta Regional Forum. 22.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/dr_forum/2018/schedule/22
Panel 4: Amplifying Delta Voices Through Public Data
Lewis 301
Data matter for development. Government agencies, businesses, and non-governmental organizations sometimes use data about people and the places where they live to characterize, categorize, and analyze what has happened in the past, current situations, and potential future pathways. Organizational leaders use demographic and socioeconomic data to make the case for investments in development. With rapid increases in the use of computers and the Internet coupled with expanded computational power, data have proliferated exponentially in the socalled “digital” and “big data” era. Not only are more data being collected and stored, there is an increase in the requirements for reporting and utilizing data to inform development decisions. This includes demands for evidence-based practice and data-driven policies. Within this context, the panel will focus on efforts to engage community and regional development practitioners and researchers with publicly available data sources. The speakers will discuss future efforts planned to increase participation rates for the 2020 Census, thereby “amplifying” Delta voices.
Moderator: John J. Green. University of Mississippi, Center for Population Studies
Panelists: Heather Hanna. Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center; Rachel Welborn. Mississippi State University, Southern Rural Development Center; Lynn Woo. University of Mississippi, Center for Population Studies
