Porter Consulting Services, is an ambitious company whose goal is to identity and address areas of data analysis needs and solutions in the educational sector. Through specialized and knowledgeable staff, we are able to provide leading services in the areas of professional development, data analysis, reporting, and deliverables to help guide policy, programming, and instructional practice. Through these avenues we are able to provide strategic and tactical support to the organizations by analyzing and interpreting the data and providing creative and effective solutions.PCS has the ability to find and interpret rich data sources; manage large amounts of data, despite hardware, software, and bandwidth constraints; merge data sources; ensure consistency of data sets; create visualizations to aid in understanding data; build mathematical models using the data, and present and communicate the data insights/findings to state agencies, district leaders, administrators, and instructional staff. We provide educators with the tools and skills to use data to make effective instructional decisions.