National Center for Opportunity Engineering and Analysis

The National Center for Opportunity Engineering & Analysis, NCEOA, will create a new field of applied data engineering and analysis with the goal of providing new tools, open services and a research platform. These efforts will increase access to opportunities for all Americans in the job markets, education attainment, career training, and the utilization of support services. Despite the ever-increasing richness of data in labor, employment, education, training and social services, no single entity has capitalized on the unique combination of the latest computational and social science methods to power new applications and provide better use-data to the social sciences. NCOEA researchers and developers will extend computational opportunity engineering and analysis in and between education, training, labor, employment and social service data for the benefit of and use by individuals, programs, companies and organizations. At the same time, NCOEA will provide high-quality data for real-time social science and economic analysis and research. These research and technology development efforts will focus on large-scale, critical components of national and economic policy such as education perseverance, attainment and transfer into work, and employment and entrepreneurship opportunity, and will also support efforts to assist individual, family and community survival and prosperity. NCOEA is a collaboration between the Computation Institute, UChicago Social Sciences, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the California-based nonprofit National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET). TAGS: LABOR , ECONOMICS , EMPLOYMENT , DATA