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Analytics consulting for complex decisions

INDEPENDENT DATA & ANALYTICS CONSULTING

Turn complex data into better decisions.

I help organizations frame difficult questions, build trustworthy analysis, create decision-support tools, and modernize the data systems and workflows behind them.

My work spans analytics strategy, statistical modeling, applied research, dashboards and R/Shiny applications, data architecture, workflow automation, and practical AI-assisted analytics.

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Senior-level support from problem definition through implementation.
Clark Ruttinger
Clark Ruttinger
Data & Analytics Consultant · Utah

POINTRELATIONSYSTEMDECISION

Analytics should help someone decide what to do next.

The useful part of analytics is not the model, dashboard, database, or AI workflow by itself. It is the clearer decision, more reliable process, or better-designed system that those tools make possible.

I work with organizations that have important questions, fragmented data, recurring manual work, or analytic products that need to become more useful, repeatable, and maintainable.

15+
years building analytics, models, research, and decision-support products
3
settings: public sector, nonprofit, and private consulting
End-to-end
problem framing, analysis, system design, delivery, documentation, and handoff
HOW I CAN HELP

Five consulting practices, combined as the problem requires

Analytics Strategy & Solution Design

Clarify the decision, stakeholders, data requirements, analytic approach, and implementation path before investing in the wrong solution.

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Analysis, Research & Modeling

Answer consequential questions with statistical analysis, research design, evaluation, workforce and policy analytics, and transparent modeling.

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Dashboards & Decision Support

Build tools people can actually use—from executive reporting and interactive visualization to custom R/Shiny applications.

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Data Systems & Automation

Create cleaner pipelines, reproducible workflows, practical data architecture, and automated recurring analytics.

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Analytics Modernization

Move from brittle spreadsheets, disconnected scripts, and manual reporting toward maintainable systems and AI-assisted workflows.

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SELECTED WORK

Experience across public analytics, consulting, and data products

DATA PRODUCT DESIGN

Reusable client dashboard framework

Led development of reusable R/Shiny components, standardized data preparation, validation workflows, and deployment patterns for recurring client analytics.

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MODELING & RESEARCH

Workforce projection systems

Led and supported multi-source supply-and-demand modeling used by state agencies, associations, and healthcare organizations for planning and policy.

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ARCHITECTURE & MODERNIZATION

Practical analytics architecture

Evaluated lightweight approaches using R, SQL, DuckDB, object storage, documentation, and validation to make recurring analytics easier to maintain.

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WORKING STYLE

The tool comes after the problem.

01 · Start with the decision

Define what someone needs to know, decide, or change before deciding what to build.

02 · Design with stakeholders

Understand how people work, what they trust, and what will make a solution usable in practice.

03 · Build for repeatability

Prefer transparent, documented workflows that can be validated, updated, and handed off.

04 · Make implementation part of the work

A technically correct solution that never gets adopted is not a successful analytics project.

Have a data problem that does not fit neatly into a job description?

That is often the right kind of consulting problem. We can start with the decision you are trying to make and work backward to the analysis, product, or system you actually need.

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