With the help of the wonderful Tony Wan in the editing chair, I wrote an article for EdSurge titled What Data Reporting Systems Can Learn from Medicine Labeling. This article gives:

an overview of why the need for over-the-counter data (OTCD) is so dire,
a demonstration of why analyzing educator data is far more complex than it can seem, and
a synopsis of how OTCD components look in data systems and their reports.

Complete OTCD standards can be found at www.jennyrankin.com/s/OTCDStandards.pdf. For further reading, some of the research and resources behind OTCD standards can be found at www.jennyrankin.com/s/StandardReferences.pdf.