“TEAM ANATA”, a mix of advocates and Computer Science and IT Students, presents and discusses how they used data to identify key issues in HIV/AIDS in the Philippines, its urgency, and comes up with data-backed recommendations for government budgeting for HIV-related kits, trainings, and anti-retro-viral drugs.
This is Team Anata’s presentation at the Datathon2020: Evidence-Based Lobby and Advocacy competition and workshop, held at Bicol University College of Science, February 22-23, 2020.
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This report is made in support to the international open data movement, and to generate insights to help optimize the procurement process of procurement entities. For this report, State University Data is used, although the method is applicable to all procuring entities in general.
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Layertech Labs led the Procurement Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Workshop for Business Owners (and Bankers) in Albay.
Businesses were introduced WHERE to get official Philippine procurement data, HOW to process the data with both technical and non-technical tools, HOW to spot malicious/exaggerated graphs and data, as well as a short introduction how to use procurement business intelligence to inform business decisions and bidding strategies.
Businesses in Albay, some are owners, and C-executives themselves, attended the hands-on workshop at The Oriental Hotel Legazpi, Albay, Philippines.
At the end of the workshop, the participants shared their outputs and insights on Philippine Procurement, and how they can use Business Intelligence from PhilGEPS data to influence their Bidding Strategies.
The workshop was made possible thanks to Hivos, under the Open Contracting Programme, and the Albay Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Supported by Hivos, Layertech lead a data scraping session using R and R Studio, using official Philippine Procurement Datasets found in Philgeps.gov.ph’s Open Data Portal.
The session attendees were faculty members of Bicol University College of Science IT Department, and faculty and graduating students of Southern Luzon Technological College Foundation, Inc.
While procurement datasets are available in open data formats, the large PhilGEPS datasets still need to be pre-processed, filtered, visualized and analyzed. Only then can researchers, advocates, and concerned citizens draw useful insights to aid them in their advocacy and decision making.
What’s the objective?
Layertech and partners advocate for #DataDrivenGovernance. We aim to encourage researchers to study and innovate on government procurement. For them to do that, they must be equipped with the necessary skills and tools to draw insights from procurement information that is available.
For this first session, the academe was specifically invited because the team also needs to get their insights, comments and suggestions about the training design, in order to improve the next tech training sessions to come.
The team and partners will soon be deploying training sessions for young researchers, students, innovators, and faculty, on various topics such as:
Data Science Data Analytics Data Visualization Python Programming Machine Learning Cybersecurity Data Privacy
What are the results?
For the first training session with R, the participants were able to publish a total of 13 datasets (downloadable HERE, in our Open Data Portal) under various categories such as Health, Local Government, and Education.
The participants also actively presented their outputs and how these cleaned datasets can help increase transparency and efficiency in public procurement in the Philippines.
Want to know more about HOW to filter Philgeps datasets? Here’s a quick, general guide HERE.
Keep on visiting our “References” section for more procurement and data scraping, visualization, and analytics guides!
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