Making population data count: The Census Data Lake
As the Census Bureau’s first high-performance, secure and scalable cloud computing environment, CDL will enable survey owners to ingest, process, analyze, manipulate and share survey data.
Silo busting strategies for sharing intergovernmental data
Although more widespread data sharing could vastly improve digital services delivery, many agencies find cultural resistance tough to overcome, a new report says.
States testing automated, shared threat intelligence cut response time to minutes
A pilot program testing automated cybersecurity data feeds to state and local governments drastically reduced the time it took them to deploy defensive operations.
Better curb management with smartphone data
To improve mobility and traffic safety in downtown areas, some cities are testing technology that uses smartphone apps to give parking departments much-needed data.
Data-driven talent management
The Army wants data science or machine learning solutions that will drastically change how it recruits, develops distributes talent across the force.
Body as biosensor: Faster COVID detection boosts military readiness
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is testing wearables that report biometric data to a machine-learning algorithm to warn health officials when service members may be developing the COVID-19 virus.
Traffic estimation tool makes predictions from sparse public data
TranSEC delivers real-time estimations of street-level traffic that engineers can use to manage citywide traffic flow.
How governments can craft a contingency plan for natural disasters
More than any other single change, digitization can make a government more resilient in the face of disruption.
Maximizing a vaccine campaign by analyzing social interactions
Researchers have developed an algorithm that may optimize vaccine distribution by targeting the people that have the maximum reachability into their social network.
Testing sewage can give school districts, campuses and businesses a heads-up on the spread of COVID-19
Wastewater-based epidemiology offers an early warning signal that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is present in a community.
Census workers from across US are raising big concerns about this year’s count
Census Bureau leaders have claimed that 99.98% of U.S. households were accounted for. But experts, including a former Census Bureau director and a number of leading researchers, have pointed out that “accounted for” is not the same as “counted” and that the 99.98% figure means little until the bureau releases more information about its data quality.
Location analytics for COVID-safe workplaces
By collecting mobile device unique identifiers and locations anonymously on private Wi-Fi networks, the contact tracing platform can monitor potential COVID exposure and spread.
Prosecuting within complex criminal networks is hard. Data analysis could save the courts precious time and money
Social network analysis could help prosecutors in criminal courts make sense of huge amounts of digital evidence, collected both online and from devices offline.
State unemployment agencies can use federal funding to reduce potential fraud
Unemployment insurance determinations that rely on identity verification, automation and timely data puts extra defenses in place against potential overpayments without sacrificing service.
Traffic forecasting for every city?
Using a new transfer learning approach, researchers were able to analyze traffic data from the San Francisco region and forecast traffic flow in the Los Angeles region and vice versa.
AI shows where cities need trees the most
Google’s Tree Canopy Lab uses aerial imagery, 3D digital surface models and artificial intelligence to estimate and map the density of tree canopy cover and support decision-making related to air quality and heat island risk.
Making data analysis accessible across the Army
Vantage’s data integration and management capabilities are coupled with visual tools to help users develop, deploy and operationalize analysis for operational and tactical planning.
Labor’s muscular IT platform primed for pandemic response
The Department of Labor’s IT platform modernization initiative is a muscular aggregation of cloud services, content management, service management, enterprise scanning and data analytics built on an enterprisewide IT backbone.
AF VAULT holds decision-making toolkit
The Air Force’s Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked and Trustworthy platform gives personnel secure, cloud-based tools for connecting with data that is essential to mission and readiness success.
Data-based first aid for wounded soldiers
HALO facilitates sharing medical data about wounded soldiers in real time, facilitating treatment from the point of injury through field hospitals and other facilities.
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