Elliott G. Smith is a Program Evaluation and Insights Specialist for the Residential Child Care Project and a Research Associate at Cornell University. He is focused on evaluation of program effectiveness and the science of practice improvement. Specific interests include feedback through data visualization and the role of administrative data in monitoring the residential milieu, especially in support of the CARE program model. He has conducted workshops about how to make data more useful and easier to understand. His academic research has appeared in numerous prestigious peer-reviewed journals.