About Us

MASN is a professional practitioners association that meets twice a year, run by governments for governments interested in learning about and furthering the state and use of “Stat” (data, process analysis, evidence, data analysis, dashboarding, data visualization, and more). Meetings always include a deep-dive into one government's data analysis efforts and round table discussion between governments. Additionally, meetings include presentations and discussions with thought leaders.

In the past, MASN has had the privilege of having presentations from Governor O’Malley founder of CitiStat and StateStat; Simon Case, then head of the United Kingdom’s performance management system; Dr. Shelley Metzenbaum, then President of the Volcker Alliance; Mike Mucha, Director/Deputy Executive Director GFOA; Dr. Diana Epstein, OMB Evidence Team Lead; Michael Flowers former head of NYC’s Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics; and Jonathan Schwabish, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute.

MASN was started in 1998 by Barbara Emerson from Fairfax County Virginia. By the mid-2000s the group stopped meeting, but, in 2013, Dave Gottesman, CountyStat Manager at Montgomery County, MD; Bill Yake Performance Management Coordinator at Fairfax County, VA; and Greg Useem, Chief Performance Office at the City of Alexandria, VA re-instated the group.

Governor Martin O'malley (center) talks to MASN about how he keeps track of State Operations using data with Simon Case (left) director of UK's Performance Management System

Michael Flowers, Director of NYC analytics, talks to the group about their successes and challenges

Prince George's County, Maryland sharing their overtime tracking tool

Representatives from local, state, and Federal governments discussing what they can learn from each other from their successes and challenges

Carolyn Hill and John Martinez, from MDRC provide an introduction to different ways to assess program success including randomized controlled trials

John M. Kamensky, Senior Fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government sharing his knowledge and assessment of the current state and future of analytics around the world

LEadership Committee

The leadership committee coordinates all meetings and manages MASN. The leadership team includes: David Gottesman, Assistant City Manager, City of Rockville, Maryland; Greg Useem, Chief Performance Officer for the City of Alexandria, VA; Elizabeth Funsch, Director for ArundelStat, Anne Arundel County, Maryland; Steve Sharkey, Deputy Director of the Innovation Team for the City of Baltimore, Maryland; and Jaime Lees, Chief Data Officer for Arlington County, VA.

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