Visualizing Budget to Improve Outcomes for Citizens

Shannon Carney is the Performance Management Analyst at the City of Portland's City Budget Office, where she supports the use of data and evidence in the City's budget, management, and policy decision-making. Shannon developed “GATR”, the City's PerformanceStat program, to support progress on challenges like housing development and emergency response times. She oversaw the 2019 Portland Community Insights Survey to provide information on community priorities and perceptions of City services. Most importantly, she founded the City of Portland’s Tableau User Group in 2015! Shannon attended Stanford University and the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at University of Washington.

Robert Cheney is a financial and policy analyst with the independent Budget Office at the City of Portland, Oregon, where he develops and maintains all their dashboards and data visualizations. He started using Tableau in 2015 while earning his Masters of Public Administration at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. He has worked as a research assistant, management analyst, and editor.

Aaron Kaufman is the Capital Controls Analyst for the Office of Strategy, Innovation, and Performance of the Portland Bureau of Transportation, where he develops and maintains capital project dashboards, manages the bureau’s project data system, and facilitates process improvement workshops.