Indiana MPH offers Data Proficiency Program for state employees
With the ever-increasing importance on data-driven decision making for state agencies to serve Hoosiers, it is important to create a culture of data proficiency across the state.
The collection, organization and analysis of data is a part of all state employees’ daily activities. From entering customer information to monitoring weather conditions to managing budgets, data drives operations for all agencies. Quality data input and analysis at every level impacts the quality of insights we can derive. Much like the acquisition and maintenance of physical assets, increasing the awareness of the impact of data empowers our agency to better support our customers.
The Management Performance Hub, the state’s data agency, is ready to help employees across the state understand their role in data and to skill-up. We have created a statewide data proficiency program in SuccessFactors, that engages employees at all knowledge levels and shows how data impacts all of our jobs every day.
The short lessons explain data concepts with simple, real-life scenarios. Please be sure to treat this as any other state-issued training and take the time to review the material.
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About the Data Proficiency Program
The Indiana Management Performance Hub strives to help employees across the state understand their role with data and to skill-up. We also want to give you a little something for your efforts. We've created three Data Proficiency Program Badges: Level 1 - Green, Level 2 - Blue and Level 3 – Gold and each are their own module/course to be completed in SuccessFactors. Each of the levels contains about five or six lessons and there is a quiz offered at the end which is the badge-earning opportunity.
Once you complete the course and receive your badge, we encourage you to promote this on your internal SharePoint or Teams pages within your agency or maybe on LinkedIn.
The content and quizzes that were hosted on the MPH website are no longer available. Employees can now complete the training in Success Factors. If you've completed the training already, you will receive credit for the badges you've completed in your learning history after transition. Check our FAQs below for more information.
- What score must I achieve on a particular quiz to earn a badge?
You must get at least 8 out of 10 questions to score a passing grade and earn a badge.
- What if I don’t pass the quiz? Can I take it again?
Yes. You can retake the quiz as many times as needed to pass the badge quizzes. We'll eliminate any failed scores and only be emailing badges to those with passing scores.
- What should I do with my badge?
You can print it out and proudly display it at your work location. Or feel free to promote it on your agency’s Teams channels or SharePoint/Yammer. We’re going to leave this up to you! We'll help you with a shareable post on LinkedIn when you receive your badge.
- If I completed the Data Proficiency Program outside of SuccessFactors, will I need to retake it to receive credit?
We have over 4,000 employees to-date that have completed the Data Proficiency Program. We partnered with the State Personnel Department to apply credit for employees who earned the Green, Blue and Gold badges before the state transitioned to SuccessFactors in April 2025. Credit for the badges should appear in each employee’s learning history. Employees who completed the training but do not see credit on SF, should contact MPH by emailing info@mph.in.gov.
- Where can I find the content if I’m not a state government employee or don’t have access to SuccessFactors?
The videos contained in most of the lessons come from the Study Hall: Data Literacy series released in September 2020 by Arizona State University, as part of the popular Crash Course learning channel on YouTube. We’ve added relevant content and some extra reading for state employees about each lesson topic. If you’re interested in the video lessons from the Study Hall: Data Literacy Series, it's available on YouTube.
We no longer host the training on our website as it’s now available to state employees as part of the Success Factors LMS.
- Leadership and Managers: How can I make this a mandatory training for my staff?
If you would like to make this training mandatory for your staff, you should contact MPH by emailing info@mph.in.gov.
State of Indiana employees take data literacy seriously
Many state employees have adopted the Data Proficiency Program as part of their usual training. Learn more when you visit the Data Proficiency Dashboard.