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Frank Stein started the topic Leveraging Security Analytics with Big Data in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 7 years, 3 months ago
IBM’s Analytics Solution Center held our first Analytics Security 360° (AS 360°) event of a series titled “Leveraging Security Analytics to Improve Your Situational Awareness” on September 26th in Washington DC. The event focused on the existing and new security…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic OMB’s Records Directive in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 7 years, 3 months ago
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Frank Stein replied to the topic Information Alchemy: The Transmutation of bits and bytes into Knowledge in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 7 years, 10 months ago
Katie,
Agree. It isn’t just emotions, but we found that doctors bring their own biases, for example assuming their patient hasn’t gone out of the country. Cognitive systems like Watson can also determine that the confidence of their answer can be improved if some missing piece of data is provided (e.g, a certain type of test), which is hard for…[Read more] -
Frank Stein started the topic Information Alchemy: The Transmutation of bits and bytes into Knowledge in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 7 years, 10 months ago
In medieval times, Alchemists hoped to convert base metals into the noble metal goal through the use of a Philosopher’s Stone.
Today, in the field of information science, we talk about Information Alchemy, converting data into information and then into knowledge. Some people even add a 4th stage of converting knowledge into wisdom[i], but…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic Two Big Wins for Big Data in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 2 months ago
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center had a huge win last week when it correctly predicted Hurricane Sandy almost 1 week in advance. Sandy was not an easy storm to predict but the use of higher resolution models (NOAA moved from 9 km to 3 km resolution in June), improved extrapolation between real-world data points, and improved modeling allowed…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic Big Weather, Big Data in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 5 months ago
Derechos, Droughts, Hottest July on Record, Shattered High Temp Records, Greenland Ice Sheet Melts. Just what is going on with the weather these days? Is this weather really abnormal or does it just seem to be that way? Is this part of a trend? Does global climate change mean we’ll have more of these extreme weather events? Being a data and…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic CERN Finding – A Triumph of Big DATA in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 6 months ago
On July 4th, CERN scientists announced that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the Higgs boson, a critical element of the standard model of particle physics. This particle is thought to be responsible for the characteristic of mass, which gives objects weight when combined with gravity.
Detection of the Higgs Boson would not have…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic How to avoid drowning in Big Data in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 7 months ago
In the 1980’s, John Naisbitt wrote, “We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.[i]” Little did Naisbitt know how much information we’d be creating 30 years later. By some estimates we are generating over 1…[Read more]
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Frank Stein posted an update 8 years, 8 months ago
@39fmfe4bh7qqtChris, You don’t need to sign in or fill out forms to see presentations from previous ASC Events. Just go to previous events, find your event of interest (in your case May 10, Social Media Analytics) and scroll down.
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Frank Stein started the topic Monitoring the Social Media – Government Edition in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 8 months ago
Does your government agency monitor the social media for information relevant to your mission? Should it?
IBM’s Analytics Solution Center recently held a seminar to explore how agencies and companies can obtain value and insight using social media analysis.
Pat Fiorenza discussed how agencies can develop an ROI Model – Return on Influence…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic Is Washington the US Capital of Analytics? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 10 months ago
If Silicon Valley can claim to be the start-up capital of the U.S., can the Washington Metro area claim to be the capital of Analytics for the U.S.?
I recently asked our IBM market research person to do a database pull to see how many customers with the title “analyst” (and related variants) are in the major metropolitan areas. Not surprising,…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic Surviving the Big Data Tsunami in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 8 years, 11 months ago
At the end of the Superbowl, people created 12,233 tweets per second. And it turns out that was less than half the number of tweets created in Japan on December 9th, when 25,088 tweets per second were recorded about the Castle in the Sky anime movie. Which, according to the Chinese, is nothing compared to the 32,312 messages per second sent on…[Read more]
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Frank Stein replied to the topic Can You Really Major in Analytics? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 1 month ago
Mark, One of the trends we’re seeing is that OR/MS is being better integrated with the other aspects of the MBA curriculum. In the past, the curriculum for non-OR/MS majors did not include analytical methods. Today, many of the local universities are starting to see that OR/MS is vital to Financial Management, Marketing Management, HR…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 1 month ago
On November 30, the Partnership for Public Service (http://www.ourpublicservice.org) released their new study, “From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics.” [i]
Keynoting the event was Shelley Metzenbaum, Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management, OMB. She told the audience that Performance Management is a core pillar of the…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic Get More Bang for Your Budget: Take Your Boss to Moneyball in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 2 months ago
Take your boss to go see the movie Moneyball. You probably already know that it stars Brad Pitt and has gotten great reviews. It has been playing since late September, so I’m not sure how much longer it will be in theaters. Here is the trailer from the movie:
This is the story of Oakland Athletics baseball GM Billy Beane, and how he uses…[Read more]
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Frank Stein started the topic Do Today’s MBAs need Analytical Skills? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 2 months ago
Do today’s MBAs need Analytical Skills? That was the question that a recent Symposium tried to answer.
On October 21, George Washington University’s Institute for Integrating Statistics in Decision Sciences (I2SDS) and IBM’s Analytics Solution Center held a Symposium entitled: Analytics and the 21st Century MBA. The abstract provides a good…[Read more] -
Frank Stein started the topic How to Do More with Less? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 6 months ago
In these tough fiscal times, all agencies are going to be focusing on doing more with less. How does one get more done with less budget and staff? Consider turning to Analytics.
The consulting firm Nucleus Research has been looking at the Return on Investment [1](ROI) for various types of IT projects. According to David O’Connell,…[Read more]
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Frank Stein replied to the topic Could Watson Help You? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 6 months ago
Our Seminar next week is designed to provide an overview of the Watson technology rather than be an introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and how it can be used in Federal. I’ll see about organizing something along the lines you suggest for our fall Analytics Seminar Semester. Keep the ideas coming….
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Frank Stein replied to the topic Could Watson Help You? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 6 months ago
Dr. David McQueeney, VP of the team at IBM Research that developed the Watson computer, will be talking at FOSE this Wednesday morning 9 – 10am.
Also, there will be Watson Overview Seminars at the Analytics Solution Center next Tuesday and Wednesday. Sign up at http://www.ibm.com/events/federal
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Frank Stein replied to the topic Could Watson Help You? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 6 months ago
Chris, that is a great use case for Watson like technology. NASA and other organizations have so much organizational knowledge that is not being utilized for access reasons like you described (disconnected ops, disadvantaged users), but also because it is so darn hard to find information. I would bet NASA like other organizations does “lessons…[Read more]
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