Automating for Success: Making Invisible Work Visible

Date

2023-10-27

Authors

Harlan, Lydia
Buxton, Kristin
Hayden, Gabriele

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Publisher

University of Oregon

Abstract

Knowing your value and optimizing your time can help meet your professional and institutional goals. We describe how an ad-hoc team of people from three different departments, with three different primary goals, were able to successfully complete a project to automate the collection and dissemination of cost-per-use data for continuing resources, saving our colleagues many hours of work, and creating a dashboard that requires little maintenance. In the process we learned a bunch of current technology—Power BI, APIs, and data visualization, to name a few that we can apply to other projects.

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26 slides

Keywords

Python API, Cross-functional teams, Project management, Data visualization, Power BI

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