Get Rolling with R in the Public Sector

Creating an R process for publishing data and deploying it for other departments sounds like a mundane task and probably not worth mentioning. In the public administration of the Canton of Zurich this is still the exception.

Based on a recently finished collaborative project we show why this is a milestone on our journey towards a more digitized and data driven administration and how this transformation unfolded over the last decade.

Without giving too much away: Building an internal community around R has proven to be at least as important as configuring proxies & Git configurations in coordination with a central IT department.

Today, as a result of our efforts, the majority of the 10.000 employees of the Canton of Zurich are able to install R out of the box from our central IT department.