How We Work

Team Meetings

The section below outlines our team’s primary meetings and their purposes, as well as our our team’s shared meeting standards.

Current Meetings

New analysts, look out for these meetings to be added to your calendar.

Name	Cadence	Description
Technical Onboarding	Week 1 40 Mins	To ensure access to tools and go over best practices.
Analyst Team Meeting	Thurs 45 Mins	Branch meeting to share your screen and discuss what you’ve been working on.

Communication Channels

Channel	Purpose	Description
#ct-bdat-internal	Discussion	For Caltrans Division of Data and Digital Services employees.
#data-analysis	Discussion	For sharing and collaborating on Cal-ITP data analyses.
#data-office-hours	Discussion	A place to bring questions, issues, and observations for team discussion.
#data-warehouse-devs	Discussion	For people building dbt models - focused on data warehouse performance considerations, etc.

Collaboration Tools

GitHub Analytics Project Board

You can access The Analytics Project Board using this link.

How We Track Work

Screencast - Navigating the Board

The screencast below introduces:

• Creating new GitHub issues to track your work

• Adding your issues to our analytics project board

• Viewing all of your issues on the board (e.g. clicking your avatar to filter)

GitHub Analytics Repo

The data-analyses repo is our main data analysis repository, for sharing quick reports and works in progress. Get set up on GitHub and clone the data-analyses repository using this link.

For collaborative short-term tasks, create a new folder and work off a separate branch.