U S Coast Guard Auxiliary Performance Measurement Directorate

U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Performance Measurement Directorate LUCI Local Unit Charted Information Version 3 User Guide

WHAT LUCI DOES LUCI is an Excel-based application that monitors five key performance measures. - Vessel examinations Public education hours Marine dealer visits Surface patrol hours Member training

WHAT LUCI DOES LUCI charts those five key performance measures in up to ten units. Performance comparison by year Monthly performance by unit LUCI can chart both flotilla performance and division performance. User inputs are the same. LUCI files are updated by the 25 th day of every month.

FINDING LUCI Navigate to the Performance Measurement web page at http: //wow. uscgaux. info/content. php? unit=m-dept. Then select LUCI.

FINDING LUCI You’re inside! Select the icon of the district whose LUCI file you wish to view.

BRINGING LUCI HOME You can select and download the district LUCI file to your computer. You will also see that this LUCI User Guide is available in both Power. Point and. pdf format for download if needed. It is best to save your selected district LUCI file to your computer, and then open it up. Google Chrome will download it automatically. Explorer and Firefox will give you dialogue screens as shown:

LUCI Opens Up When you first open your downloaded LUCI file, you might get this annoying pop-up message. Just select Enable Editing, and it will disappear permanently. For Fifth Northern Users The six new consolidated flotillas created in the late 2014 district reorganization will display work performed prior to their time of creation. In the USCG database, work performed by members in forerunner flotillas are credited towards the consolidated units that replaced them.

GETTING STARTED The User Console is where you select the unit(s) whose information you want to view and compare. Just follow the instructions on the screen. Click anywhere in the unit box

GETTING STARTED In this example, we have just clicked on the left-most colored box. The icon for the drop-down box appears to its right. Clicking that icon will open the unit list so you can select one for viewing. Conversely, selecting “x” from the drop-down box will remove a displayed unit from view.

GETTING STARTED Here, we have selected four units to view and compare. Clicking the colored tabs below will bring us to the graph pages for each category show these four units.

LUCI KEEPS TABS All LUCI pages have colored tabs on the bottom. Each tab covers a different area Vessel Exams, Public Education, Dealer Visits, Boat Patrols, and Member Training. When you click on the yellow “Public Education” tab, for example, you’ll be taken to the Public Education page. There, you can view the graphs on PE activity for the units that you have selected. The black tab on the right has the software release information. At any time, you can return to the User Console via the red tab on the left to change your unit selections.

LUCI’s DASHBOARDS Here is the Public Education dashboard showing our four selected units. There is one large year-to-year chart, and up to ten smaller charts for each selected unit’s month-to-month data. Here’s how it the page appears zoomed out in 75% screen view. You can easily scroll down to view the monthly charts of the bottom units.

LUCI’s DASHBOARD GRAPHS Each dashboard’s ten monthly graphs will display a projected figure for the current month and previous month. The reason for this projection is that it takes several weeks for the RBS and response information to make its way up the reporting chain into AUXINFO. All the other months show actual data. The dashboard’s yearly graph displays the selected units’ past four full calendar years.

WORKING WITH DIVISIONS Here is another dashboard comparing divisions. In LUCI, you can select and compare divisions in exactly the same way that you compare flotillas. Divisions appear towards the bottom of the drop-down screens on the User Console.

AVOID RAINBOW SPAGHETTI While the LUCI User Console can accommodate up to ten units, you will run the risk of getting “rainbow spaghetti” if you try. Using fewer units will you give results that are easier to interpret.

DETECTING VSC DATA LAGS Here are monthly VSC charts from two units in the Northeast. The graph on the right has a normal appearance reflecting seasonal activity. The on the left shows high VSC activity late in 2012 and 2013. Since there was actually no VSC activity during those chilly months, such a charted upsurge will alert commanders that the unit’s Form 7038 s were processed only after long delays. Data lag

GETTING SNIPPY Windows Vista and later versions of Windows come with an onboard snipping tool. With this utility, you can cut LUCI graphs for pasting into other presentations. Macs also come with a snipping utility.

PUTTING LUCI AWAY You can save your LUCI file with or without any selections specified. If your LUCI file is ever lost or damaged, you can always get another one at the M Directorate. No charge! SAVE

Release Notes Version 3, released March 2015. Please contact Peter Jensen of the Performance Measurement Directorate with any questions or comments.