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Project Description:

Integrating Child-Level Data Across Systems at Ellis Early Learning

We are seeking technical support to help integrate and connect multiple data sources currently used across our early childhood program. Child-level information—including enrollment, classroom placement, assessments, and family supports—lives across several systems and databases and spans a large and growing number of children, classrooms, and program years. Because enrollment and classroom assignments change frequently throughout the year, it has been difficult to maintain consistent child identifiers and relational links across systems, making it challenging to create a single, reliable view of each child over time.

As a result, staff rely heavily on manual data entry, reconciliation, and repeated matching across datasets, which is time-intensive and increases the risk of errors as data volume grows. This fragmentation also limits our ability to conduct longitudinal analyses and identify meaningful patterns and trends across children, classrooms, and time.

Our goal is to develop a more integrated and scalable data architecture that supports linking child-level data across systems using shared identifiers, improved data models, and streamlined data flows. This would reduce manual processes, improve data quality, and allow us to make better use of a large and complex dataset to support evaluation, continuous improvement, and timely decision-making for children and families. 

Time Commitment by the Volunteer:

Desired start date: 03/01/26
Desired end date: 09/01/26
Estimated time commitment by volunteer(s): 3-5 hours per week

Specific Skills Required:
NDA required.
Some coding language.
Experience in Airtable/HyperDb or any DataBases.

The deadline for submissions to this project is 03/06/26.

Project Description:

Fulton County Analytics Project

The county's legal arm would like help analyzing case data at a more efficient rate and to indicate links between data across cases.

Time Commitment by the Volunteer:

Desired start date: 04/09/26
Desired end date: 07/09/26
Estimated time commitment by volunteer(s): 3-5 hours per week

Specific Skills Required:

We anticipate and welcome interest from volunteers at all levels of experience. All volunteers will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. A criminal background check for volunteers may be required as well. 
Link Analysis/Visualization: Creating maps to visualize connections between people, entities, and events.
Data Integration: Connecting disparate data sources (e.g., records management, public records, social media).
Social Network Analysis (SNA): Automatically identifying key influencers in a network.
Predictive Analysis: Using algorithms to forecast relationships or identify high-risk nodes.
Workflow Automation: Tracking investigations and managing evidence logs. 
Business Intelligence (BI): Power BI or Tableau can be used for visualizing trends and patterns in case data.
General Programming: Python (with libraries like Pandas, Matplotlib) can be used for customized, complex data manipulation and visualization.

The deadline for submissions to this project is 03/09/26.