Location: Columbia, SC
URL: http://www.ors.state.sc.us
The SC Budget and Control Board, Office of Research and Statistics (ORS) is a nationally recognized state government agency, known for its reputation for unparalleled data stewardship and the most complete health and human services data capability in the United States.
The ORS, an entity with no regulatory functions in South Carolina state government, is the central setting housing healthcare data, human services data, education, law enforcement, public safety data and numerous other administrative databases. The ORS, those state agencies, and other organizations recognized the need for program evaluation and outcomes that encompassed information from other systems. The need to better understand disparities that exist in health, education, law enforcement and social services was also a driving force to integrate data from these systems, resulting in the South Carolina Data Warehouse. These data serve as the foundation for most projects and initiatives.
We develop many kinds of web applications from simple, form-based to complex online-offline desktop applications. We use rspec for testing, git for source-control and capistrano or vlad for deployment. The servers run nginx and thin on CentOS.
A glimpse at projects currently in development and/or production: