Nicollette Staton
City of Cincinnati, OH Analytics & Innovation Manager
Nicollette Staton is the Analytics & Innovation Manager for the City of Cincinnati’s Office of Performance & Data Analytics (OPDA) working to embed the office’s mission to use data analytics to deliver better, faster, and smarter services throughout city operations. Staton manages the city’s Innovation Lab, an intensive, collaborative process development and improvement space. OPDA provides the space, time, resources, data, analysis, and facilitation for honest discussion of issues, creative problem solving, collaborative solution design, and roadmap formulation with front line staff. In her role she oversees the development and production of CincyInsights, an interactive dashboard portal that makes City data visual, conveniently accessible, and user-friendly. Staton also works with staff to identify new data sources, clean and enhance the data, and release datasets for public consumption on the Cincinnati’s Open Data Portal.