Analytics Center of Excellence
The Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) supports two strategic missions: improving the delivery of County services through data integration and sharing, and supporting data driven decision making and increased information maturity through analysis, research, and platforms.
ACE manages the County Information Hub, established to create a holistic county client view, provide comprehensive client-centric information, establish a repository of countywide client profiles and service histories, and successfully enable access to a 360 degree view of county clients.
Who We Are
The ACE team is composed of data scientists, analysts, architects, researchers with years of experience using data to derive insights, improve Countywide performance, and support data-driven decision-making.
Max Stevens
Principal Analyst – Lead
Fei Wu
Program Specialist IV – Data Scientist
Rachel Bryant
Program Specialist IV – Data Scientist
Andrew Perry
Program Specialist III – Data Scientist
Ricardo Barsuto-Davila
Principle Analyst – Lead
Irene Vidyanti
Program Specialist IV – Data Scientist
Chun Liu
Program Specialist III – Data Scientist
Mark Greninger
Senior IT Consultant
Jose Soto
IT Consultant
Duc Doan
Principal Application Developer
ACE Projects
Countywide Prevention Metrics
Development and operationalization of metrics for prevention in the County’s Child Protection system
Evaluating the Cross-Sector Impact of MAMA
Evaluation of the short- and long-term cross-sector impact of MAMAs, a program providing enhanced pre- and post-natal services and cross-sector referrals for low income pregnant women in Los Angeles County.
Homeless Initiatives Employment Taskforce System Mapping
Create system and business process maps to understand the service model for the job-seeking homeless client.
Information Maturity Assessment
Partner with outside consultant to conduct information maturity assessments and develop roadmaps in eight county departments
Justice Metrics Framework
Development and operationalization of a performance metrics framework for the County’s justice reform efforts
Cannabis Dashboard
Partner with Office of Cannabis Management to develop storyboards around key themes related to cannabis use in Los Angeles County using data from departments across the county.
Women and Girls Initiative Phase 0 Assessment
Partner with WGI to conduct a rapid needs assessment to identify pilot project opportunities across departments using WGI’s Strategic Framework.
ERIS
Managed the development of the Emergency Response Information Service (ERIS), which provides child abuse investigators access to critical information during investigations.
CHIP
Oversee the Countywide Homeless Information Portal (CHIP), which gives homeless case workers the ability to see critical information during outreach.
Housing for Health Evaluation
Evaluation of cross-sectoral impacts of Housing for Health, a program to house homeless individuals to improve their health outcomes.
AB 109 and Prop 47 Service Analysis
Conduct an analysis of specified AB 109 and Proposition 47 populations to identify strategies for improving rehabilitative treatment and justice outcomes.
What We Do
Information Management
Information Management – including administration of the Information Hub as well as development of applications such as CHIP.
Performance Management
Performance Management – including Justice Metrics Framework and Office of Child Protection Metrics.
Research & Evaluation
Research and Evaluation – including ad-hoc research and evaluation projects across departments and the Chief Executive Office (CEO) (e.g. HI, DPSS).
Events
The Data Science Forum and Women in Data Science Squad (WDSS) events are also hosted by the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) Team.
How We Innovate
The Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) Team is forging a path toward a unified view of County clients, securely sharing and exchanging data to coordinate service delivery, and performing data-driven analytics to achieve outcomes in support of Board Priorities and other Countywide initiatives.
This 360-degree view of County clients will empower the County to track, analyze, and optimize patterns of engagement, investigate outcomes of County services to the clients, and measure County and related program performance, and improve services for our residents.