All MPH Projects

MPH provides analytics solutions tailored to address complex management and policy questions enabling improved outcomes for Hoosiers. We empower our partners to leverage data in innovative ways, facilitating data-driven decision making and data-informed policy making.

Opioid Epidemic

Problem: Because the drug landscape in Indiana changes so quickly, practitioners and policymakers must have access to real-time insight into this landscape to efficiently and effectively address addiction and the supply/demand of drugs.

Solution: To achieve this, MPH coordinated disparate data sources from several state agencies and Marion County to create a comprehensive analytical view statewide for use by the Indiana Commission to Combat Drug Abuse.

Impact: The state-wide visualization tool has been used to determine the location of new opioid treatment centers and to inform the disbursement of Naloxone (the opioid overdose reversal/blocking drug). By more effectively targeting communities with needed resources, Hoosier lives are being saved and addiction afflictions are being addressed.

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Education and Workforce Development

Problem: Indiana lacked the ability to answer key questions about the education to workforce pipeline.

Solution: The Education and Workforce Development (EWD) database is a large-scale data matching initiative within MPH. This longitudinal dataset joins valuable information from disparate sources to answer key questions about Indiana's education-to-workforce pipeline. It allows educators, employers, policymakers, researchers, students, community leaders, and members of the public to access and leverage data and information not previously available.

Impact: EWD will ultimately allow stakeholders to conduct analysis of effectiveness of programs and allocation of resources tied to long-term education and workforce pipeline outcomes.

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Use Case/User Story

For MPH’s work to be successful, it is critical to understand how the data at issue can be leveraged to inform an issue. The vast amount of data managed by the State of Indiana holds immense value for a diverse variety of users. In order to effectively identify and deliver data for meaningful use, use cases must be developed to clearly capture the end users’ needs and intended applications. Matching the data need of an individual end user to the most appropriate corresponding data requires three essential components:

User Story. The user story is a specific application of the data unique to a single end user. The intended applications of the data by each individual end user is captured in a user story.

Use Case. The use case is a general topic area that reflects a common data need by any number of end users. Under a single use case, multiple end users may apply the same data differently.

Dataset. The dataset is a collection of fields that meet the common need of the use case. Data required to meet the needs of a use case, therefore, is not limited to a single user or user story.

Our Goals

• Becoming the highest performing state government through the use of data-driven decision making.
• Providing world-class data science and analytics capabilities to our partners to help inform and solve policy challenges.
• Providing a platform to be the data hub for Indiana governments and citizens to foster transparency and problem solving.
• Providing Hoosiers with a return on investment in MPH by developing new revenue streams through leveraging of the MPH platform.
• Providing the backbone to help make Indiana become a national leader in data analytics and science and helping foster economic development in Indiana.