Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation

David Jamieson; Rob Wilson; Victoria Pagan

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_27

Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation

David Jamieson^*, Rob Wilson, Victoria Pagan

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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’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”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic Government
Subtitle of host publication	21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, September 6–8, 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Marijn Janssen, Csaba Csáki, Ida Lindgren, Ulf Melin, Euripidis Loukis, Gabriela Viale Pereira, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Efthimios Tambouris
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	419-431
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031150869
ISBN (Print)	9783031150852
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_27
Publication status	Published - 30 Aug 2022
Event	21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2022 - Linköping, Sweden Duration: 6 Sept 2022 → 8 Sept 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13391
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2022
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Linköping
Period	6/09/22 → 8/09/22

Keywords

Big data
Data analytics
Data imaginary
Digital government

UN SDGs

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Jamieson, D., Wilson, R., & Pagan, V. (2022). Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation. In M. Janssen, C. Csáki, I. Lindgren, U. Melin, E. Loukis, G. Viale Pereira, M. P. Rodríguez Bolívar, & E. Tambouris (Eds.), Electronic Government: 21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, September 6–8, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 419-431). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13391). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_27

Jamieson, David ; Wilson, Rob ; Pagan, Victoria. / Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation. Electronic Government: 21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, September 6–8, 2022, Proceedings. editor / Marijn Janssen ; Csaba Csáki ; Ida Lindgren ; Ulf Melin ; Euripidis Loukis ; Gabriela Viale Pereira ; Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar ; Efthimios Tambouris. Cham : Springer, 2022. pp. 419-431 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Jamieson, D, Wilson, R & Pagan, V 2022, Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation. in M Janssen, C Csáki, I Lindgren, U Melin, E Loukis, G Viale Pereira, MP Rodríguez Bolívar & E Tambouris (eds), Electronic Government: 21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, September 6–8, 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13391, Springer, Cham, pp. 419-431, 21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, 6/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_27

Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation. / Jamieson, David; Wilson, Rob; Pagan, Victoria.
Electronic Government: 21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, September 6–8, 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Marijn Janssen; Csaba Csáki; Ida Lindgren; Ulf Melin; Euripidis Loukis; Gabriela Viale Pereira; Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar; Efthimios Tambouris. Cham: Springer, 2022. p. 419-431 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13391).

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Jamieson D, Wilson R, Pagan V. Letting Your Data Imagination Run Away with You. Promises and Perspectives of a Public Sector Data Analytics Implementation. In Janssen M, Csáki C, Lindgren I, Melin U, Loukis E, Viale Pereira G, Rodríguez Bolívar MP, Tambouris E, editors, Electronic Government: 21st IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2022, Linköping, Sweden, September 6–8, 2022, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2022. p. 419-431. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_27

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