[wolverine876]

Hazarding an uninformed idea: If organizationally the department isn't geared toward this kind of analysis, what if you opened up the data, and let whoever wanted to work with it do their thing. Probably a perfect environment for crowd-sourcing, given the expertise and resources.

[josephg]

The most interesting data is usually about people. This data usually shouldn’t be shared for obvious privacy reasons.

And anonymising data sources is a notoriously fraught task.