Methodology

How OconEco produces each published number, with the audit trail to back it.

Strawman section index. Per the developer brief §7 and vision deck slide 9.

Methodology

Two features anchor the methodology section: the Operational Guidelines (how we handle specific methodological domains) and NUSAP (how much to trust each number). Neither is front-page material, but they signal to institutional reviewers that this is peer-grade work.

The four sub-pages

• Operational Guidelines (OG-001..OG-010) — 10 guidelines codifying methodological domains. Accordion: one-line summary visible, full text on expand.
• NUSAP — data quality — the Funtowicz & Ravetz framework, displayed progressively on every value (hover → spread; click → assessment + pedigree).
• Source agency directory — every number links to its source agency, table, year, and URL. This is the directory of sources we cherry-pick from.
• Replication package — the 12-stage Python pipeline, the SHA-256 audit trail, and the public GitHub or gated download.

Why methodology gets its own section

Most data portals show you a number without telling you how much to trust it. FAND shows the quality metadata alongside every value. That is a differentiator institutional reviewers will notice — and a forcing function on us to not publish numbers we cannot defend.