About
Research expertise without the consulting-firm overhead.
Community Analytics is a small applied-research practice designed for public and mission-driven organizations with substantive questions that fall between routine staff analysis and a large consulting engagement.
Led by Branco Ponomariov, Ph.D.
An associate professor of public administration with experience in applied public-sector research, program evaluation, research design, administrative and survey data, and decision-facing analysis.
Community Analytics is an independent practice. Professional experience described here reflects the founder's background and does not imply that prior institutional engagements were performed by Community Analytics.
Public administrationPolicy, management, budgeting, organizations, and local government.
Applied researchQuantitative analysis, research design, surveys, administrative data, evidence synthesis, and spatial analysis.
EvaluationProgram implementation, outcomes, measurement systems, performance indicators, and evaluation design.
Public-sector workExperience with municipal, community, externally sponsored, and decision-facing research projects.
Working principleComplex analysis should become simpler when it reaches the decision-maker without becoming less rigorous.
The niche
Too substantive for a dashboard. Too bounded for a giant engagement.
That analytical gap is the reason the practice exists.