建筑公司在一个压倒性的位和字节之海洋中游泳。为了削减CACOPOPONT并确定哪些数据很重要，基于Seattle的设计和施工管理公司OAC今年早些时候举办了第一个Datathon竞赛，灵感来自于科技公司的Hackathons，程序员团队竞争创建创新解决方案或原型。

同样，OAC的Datave员工团队团队共同努力，使用可用数据的子集（或多个子集）来提出一个音高，这可能包括从不同地域的成本管理费用到新员工地理分布的成本管理费用。然后，五支球队在几周内开发了他们的想法，将数据塑造成一个可使公司受益的可用计划。

The process culminated with the groups formulating quick-fire presentations. Then, on a Saturday afternoon in July, the teams plus spectators assembled at the firm’s Seattle headquarters, many donning costumes or other flair to celebrate team spirit. Each group had just 10 minutes to present their ideas to our “Shark Tank”-style panel of judges, where I collaborated with OAC CEO Shawn Mahoney and others. Presentations were scored based on the intended value to the company, acumen of data analysis, data visualization and lessons learned.

Blair (center right) joined Mahoney (center left) and others to mull the business value of pitches.
照片由Arianna Kemis / OAC

Winning team Byte Size mined data from general contractor pay applications—a data set that is required on every project that OAC completes but has been underutilized for analysis—sorted by project type and size to provide leading and lagging indicators on trends such as cash flow predictions, rate of work put in place and schedule monitoring. While that may sound dry, Byte Size’s presentation was anything but—they donned chef’s outfits and cleverly themed their slides around a restaurant menu in a presentation titled "Test Kitchen With Market Fresh Data."

“在一个如此多的数据的世界中，清洁数据是关键，”凯尔理查森，字节大小团队负责人和OAC高级总监说。没有干净的数据，“可操作的智力和结论很难得出。”

除了介绍的情况外，将由OAC战略规划团队进一步研究，该公司也可以实施，该公司还确定了目前未收集的数据，而是应该是，Mahoney说。

“获得的最重要的见解是数据是我们行业的价值创造者和差异化因素。数据帮助我们在整个公司创建运营智慧 - 这是宝贵的，“Mahoney补充道。