Big Data Comes With Big Promises, Untapped Potential
Governments of all sizes have created data and analytics departments to assess what they have, coordinate communication between agencies and report stories that the numbers show.
Governments of all sizes have created data and analytics departments to assess what they have, coordinate communication between agencies and report stories that the numbers show.
The DoD faces a set of challenges unique to it as an organization, that makes accessing, storing and moving its data ever more complicated.
Data on car accidents is collected by a disparate set of state, federal, and local governments, but by facilitating sharing and access, Ariel Gold is gaining new insights into how our roads work.
City leaders, who want to sharpen their cities’ competitive edge, face the dilemma between driving growth and creating a livable urban environment that attracts and retains citizens and businesses.
Government IT leaders know that efficient data backup and recovery are integral to mission success. But there are a few challenges that agencies have to overcome if they’re really going to secure and access their data.
Public- and private-sector experts explain how a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy helps government agencies recover faster after calamity harms their IT infrastructure.
A connected government participates in the creation and maintenance of data and real-time information. They move away from creating siloed smart projects and set up a true real-time infrastructure that can ingest, collect and analyze real-time data.
How can you tell which data is useful and which is not?
Technology is constantly changing as new tools are developed and old tools are modified or repurposed, and these commercial innovations are having a growing impact on how we govern.
The central idea of data analytics is taking datasets or groups of information and analyzing them in a meaningful way to determine something useful in government.