Building Government’s Data Toolbox: Practical Uses for Data and Insights
When it’s used wisely and with forethought, data can help your agency improve its current operations and take advantage of emerging technology. In this guide, the second in our three-part data series, we give tangible guidance on using data to advance your agency’s mission. You’ll get: Tips on where data can drive mission success. CaseRead… Read more »
Strength in Numbers: A Blueprint for Data Analytics
There are several, often overlapping, reasons why government uses data — to improve policymaking, public service delivery, business development, and transparency, for instance. But how do agencies do it? How do they use data to meet each of their objectives? In the third and final installment in our 2024 data guide series, explore topics thatRead… Read more »
A Fresh Look at Data
In this guide, Part One of a three-part series, we share what’s ahead for government’s most valuable asset — data — and how agencies are refreshing their data strategies. We explore best practices for maintaining and protecting data, its role in AI, and innovative ways agencies use data today. This free guide covers the expandingRead… Read more »
Decision Intelligence: New Possibilities for Data-Based Decision-Making
Agencies spent the last several years establishing a foundation for data-based decision-making. The task now is to extend those capabilities and use data in new, more productive ways. This guide explores such options and makes a concerted effort to focus on data initiatives with tangible impacts. This guide will look at how data can impactRead… Read more »
Your Field Notes for Data-Driven Decision-Making in Government
Explore how federal, state and local agencies are addressing issues around technical infrastructure, data governance, workforce training and data-centric decision-making processes. Download your guide, Your Field Notes for Data-Driven Decision-Making in Government now: Brought to you by:
Advancing the Art of Data Analytics
This guide examines the strategies and solutions that are taking data analytics in government to new levels.
Your Data in the Year of Everything Else
In this new guide, we explore how data efforts have folded into government’s responses to modern issues. You’ll discover case studies and learn how leading agencies put in the groundwork to be prepared for all that 2020 has held.
7 Tips to Transform Your Data Into Compelling Stories
In our new guide, we highlight the steps agencies should take to identify, frame and visualize their stories using data analytics and visualizations.
Creating an Intelligent Government With Data
Imagine a world where government solves our biggest problems with evidence. In that world, agencies deliver on their missions to provide, protect and prosper – and there’s a strong trust between citizens and government. To get there, governments need to share data across agencies, embrace emerging technologies and work directly with their constituents to rebuildRead… Read more »
Analytics Now: Effective Use of Government Data Today
To see exactly how government entities at all levels are using data to improve services in various lines of business, we went straight to the sources.
How You Can Effectively Use Data Analytics
Data analytics allows agencies to glean important insights from massive amounts of data. But starting can be quite the challenge. Here’s how to navigate.
Best Government Training Resources to Meet Gov’s In-Demand Skills
It’s probably safe to assume that most of us have heard the old “practice makes perfect” adage at least once in our lives. The formula is simple: work hard, work often and you’ll dominate — eventually. We bought into this concept. We believed, we did, we conquered — or at least tried to. But thenRead… Read more »
Analytics-Driven Security in Government: Breaking Down What You Need to Know
Check out this new pocket guide to learn everything you need to know about analytics-driven security in government.
Analytics in Action: How Government Tackles Critical Issues With Data
In July 2017, the federal government announced the largest health care fraud takedown in the history of the Justice Department. The government charged 412 defendants with fraud over a scheme involving $1.3 billion in false billings. Among the defendants, 56 were doctors and more than 120 have been charged with opioid-related crimes, making this theRead… Read more »
Putting Data Analytics at the Forefront of Your Agency
No matter what your job description says, data analytics is a crucial part of your role. This guide will help you get started making better, data-driven decisions with analytics.
Embracing Data Analytics: Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them
There are few decisions we make today that aren’t based on data. We check our weather apps to properly plan our outfits. We use customer feedback data to determine what products to buy. And we can’t leave home without our fitness monitors and smartphones to track our health, mood, conversations and whereabouts. That’s just inRead… Read more »
All Data, All Uses
This GovLoop guide, in collaboration with Splunk, will explore the challenges facing the public sector and how big data can help solve some of these problems. It will also explain how Splunk can support all public sector agency missions from cybersecurity to compliance and more by leveraging machine data.
Cybersecurity, Analytics & More: The 8 Government Health IT Trends You Need to Know
This GovLoop guide looks at the current state of government health IT, innovations and how government is driving the adoption of IT in health care
How You Can Use Data Analytics to Change Government
Everything about Dr. Farid Fata’s case seemed too egregious to be true. When a whistleblower tipped off the Department of Justice back in 2013 about Dr. Fata’s unprecedented medical malpractice, government officials had a hard time wrapping their heads around the claims — at first. How could a renowned Michigan oncologist intentionally misdiagnose patients andRead… Read more »
Smarter Care: Breaking Away From the One-Size-Fits-All Model
In partnership with IBM®, GovLoop is conducting a four-part guide series, The Journey to Big Data and Analytics Adoption. This series of reports has emphasized how big data has transformed government agencies. In Chapter 1, we discussed how organizations could leverage their most critical asset: data. Throughout Chapter 2, we highlighted big data’s role toRead… Read more »
People, Places and Process: The Impact of GIS & Facilities Management
Because we Americans spend almost 90 percent of our time indoors and because the government owns, manages or occupies roughly 500,000 facilities, the role of a facilities manager is becoming increasingly important for government. The federal government also operates more than 600,000 vehicles and employs 1.8 million civilians. Buildings have now become our primary habitats.Read… Read more »
A Smarter Approach to Public Safety
In our first two chapters, we outlined the benefits of big data and discussed how analytics can help counter waste, fraud and abuse. In this chapter, we look at how public safety organizations can benefit from a robust analytics strategy. Specifically we explore: Case studies from Miami-Dade County, New York City and Lancaster, California police departments.Read… Read more »
Why Data is Your Key to Reduce Waste, Fraud and Abuse
In our first chapter of the IBM and GovLoop guide series; we explained how big data has fundamentally changed the way government does business. But for many institutions, understanding the applications of big data is just the start of the analytics journey. In this chapter we dive deeper and focus on how deploying a data-drivenRead… Read more »
Why Data is Your Most Critical Asset
Based on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the Mayan culture is home to one of Earth’s most unpredictable climates. The area is prone to both extreme drought and torrential rain. To prepare for prolonged periods without rain, the Mayans had to think of an innovative way to collect, manage and store their most precious asset: water. TheRead… Read more »
Unlocking the Power of Government Analytics
GovLoop’s latest report,Unlocking the Power of Government Analytics, provides an overview of government analytics, identifies leading case studies, and integrates the results of a recent GovLoop survey from 280 members of the GovLoop community. Further, this report provides ten steps to leverage analytics within a government agency.