@inproceedings{580aa84923c04fe4a6bfc7f32e8d64df,
title = "Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation",
abstract = "Public service organizations are encouraged to believe that data analytics can transform services and organizations. Spurred on by these claims – or promises - this paper examines the implementation of a public sector-focused Office of Data Analytics in the Northeast of England. We explore the promises of data analytics and what basis these might have. Comprising of a single case study, we apply a critical lens – informed by Beer{\textquoteright}s (2008) data gaze - to the implementation and find that there were challenges to the application of data analysis within complex societal environments. This challenge was juxtaposed with an unnerving belief – stemming from public policy and strategy - in the promises that adopting and implementing data analytics and a data platform can bring to the public sector. As a result, we present an assessment of a public sector data platform implementation where realities emerge that dismiss the promises and imaginaries that are often promoted – whilst highlighting previously cautioned “myths” and “impossibilities”.",
keywords = "Big data, Data analytics, Data imaginary, Digital government",
author = "David Jamieson and Rob Wilson and Victoria Pagan",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_27",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031150852",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "419--431",
editor = "Marijn Janssen and Csaba Cs{\'a}ki and Ida Lindgren and Ulf Melin and Euripidis Loukis and {Viale Pereira}, Gabriela and {Rodr{\'i}guez Bol{\'i}var}, {Manuel Pedro} and Efthimios Tambouris",
booktitle = "Electronic Government",
address = "Germany",
note = "21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2022 ; Conference date: 06-09-2022 Through 08-09-2022",
}
