Breaking Down Data Analytics
Learn what common challenges government agencies are facing in data analytics and how they’re working to address them. From GovLoop and NetApp roundtable discussion, “Breaking Down Data Analytics.”
Analytics
Can You See Through the Money?
In a world filled with technology, we assume transparency is a given. We desire the ‘need to know’ and we believe it is our right to know. To top it all of, we hold our government to a higher standard. The concept of checks and balances fosters a sense of mutual accountability from citizens andRead… Read more »
Better Income Estimation for the Public Sector
This blog is an excerpt from our recent Industry Perspective, “Better Income Estimation for the Public Sector: Ensuring Program Integrity within Entitlement Programs.” To download the full brief, click here. Today, entitlement spending is the highest in United States history – and it shows no sign of slowing down. Entitlement programs help millions of people inRead… Read more »
Forget Big Data in HR – Focus on Insight from People Analytics
In this example, big data was not required. In fact, just a comparatively little amount of data, properly analyzed and presented to non-technical organizational leaders, can lead to big improvements. The lesson – don’t blindly accept or ask for more data.
Change the Way You Manage Your Waste
Surging population growth is not only challenging communities’ delivery of public services like water, energy, transportation, public safety and healthcare; the growth is also forcing them to deal with increasing amounts of waste. It’s estimated that by 2100 global populations will be producing three times as much waste as they do today. If we don’tRead… Read more »
An Overview of Gov’s Top Innovations in 2015
Oftentimes we associate innovations with new inventions that produce fancy gadgets and knickknacks. However, innovations encompass innovative thinking and produce new mindsets and processes. In GovLoop’s annual discussion, DorobekINSIDER Live: Counting Down the Top Innovations in 2015, three experts focused on ways government has been improving its management procedures around information technology (IT), procurement, andRead… Read more »
How Are Your Taxpayer Dollars Being Managed?
Do you ever wonder where our taxpayer dollars are going? Sometimes, it seems like our money is being invested in the newest trends of government instead of addressing reoccurring issues, such as fixing those bumpy highways we all know. It is hard to manage citizens’ wants and desires while maintaining a positive cost benefit environmentRead… Read more »
Counter Fraud Management for Government
Government organizations strive to become more efficient, effective, and responsive to the citizens they serve. Citizens expect government to be accountable about how their well-earned tax dollars are being spent. That’s why it is increasingly important that government balances equitable service to citizens while increasing revenue by proactively detecting tax fraud and noncompliance. While theRead… Read more »
Apply Contextual Computing to Your Big Data
In a 2012 study, IDC projected that we would produce enough data by 2020 to fill 424 Nimitz-class aircraft carries, if all that data was stored on Blu-ray discs. That’s a lot of data. In fact, that’s so much data that we can safely say there is no way every date point will be seenRead… Read more »
Should You Be a Data Scientist?
Paradoxically, given the breadth of what “data science” means, the specific training and expertise is often very narrow. Students and young professional need to be well informed of the options and their personal strengths in programming, analytics, or subject matter expertise to apply the output of data science to their academic training.