Our data source was documents from the Smartbook for DA Pam 600-3 Officer Professional Development and Career Management.

These documents spanned 11 Army Operations branches and 3 Information Dominance branches. In these documents, the desired attributes were presented in one of three ways: text form, a tabular layout, or with a flowchart.

Below are examples of each type of presentation with the desired information for our analysis highlighted.

PAM DA 600-3: Information in Text Format PAM DA 600-3: Information in Text Format

PAM DA 600-3: Information in Tabular Format Table Format


PAM DA 600-3: Information in Flowchart

PAM DA 600-3: Information in Flowchart

The formatting inconsistencies and low image quality of the flowcharts prompted us to explore a variety of data extraction methods, shown here.

Program Contacts: Joel Thurston and Cesar Montalvo