NIST issues challenge to de-identify public safety datasets
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public to help it find new ways to de-identify public safety datasets so researchers and policy makers can glean insights while protecting individual privacy.
CARES dashboard ensures county spending delivers results
The CARES Act Funding Outcomes Dashboard helps Pierce County, Wash., monitor funding and key performance indicators for public health emergency response, economic stabilization and recovery, community response and resilience, and essential government services.
OPM’s DIY COVID dashboard
Using open source data and a custom-developed Python application, developers built an easy-to-use, automatically-updating dashboard.
HHS gears up for widespread COVID surveillance – through wastewater
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to test wastewater in 42 states for signs of the COVID-19 virus.
Why data drills should be part of emergency planning
Data drills help cities develop coordinated, data-driven crisis response plans by identifying key players, valuable datasets, useful technologies and data governance challenges before disaster strikes.
Why risk is a range -- not a number
During a disaster, looking at a range of possibilities, rather than a target number, gives emergency planners a better way to gauge risk.
How transit data can drive urban recovery
Cities are looking to take advantage of data-driven transportation tools for policymaking, particularly as they look for economic recovery opportunities.
8 data leaders on leveraging data during and after COVID-19
The pandemic has demonstrated that data-centered leaders must become a part of the emergency response playbook.
Reaction and overreaction: The unemployment insurance disaster
Analytics technology can pore through thousands of unemployment claims filed across many different accounts, reducing fraud and adding speed and confidence to the payment process.
When visual communication is mission-critical
In government, the right display technology can help agencies reopen safely now and support effective collaboration in the future.
Reimagining maps
In a recent online forum, researchers discussed how to view maps not as 2D pieces of paper but as a systems involving user data and representation.
When high-quality supplier data becomes mission critical
In times of crisis, agencies know that decision-making ability and response time are only as good as the information in their supplier database.
How data can lead states to post-pandemic recovery
An essential element for recovery planning collecting and analyzing data to help policy-makers understand how workforce, health care and social services programs interact with one another, a new report says.
Unearned unemployment: Who is collecting money meant for Americans in need?
A lack of anti-fraud measures, bypassed processes that had been in place to help verify benefit claims and data inaccuracies -- combined with the rampant availability of cheap, stolen account credentials and personally identifiable information on dark web markets -- has led to an unprecedented increase in unemployment fraud.
Automated data warehousing divides data control between IT and business groups
When it comes to data usage, smart public- and private-sector organizations are taking a cue from the nations’ founding fathers and structuring hierarchy, control and autonomy in their data’s governance.
California's Data Failures Stymie Efforts to Curb COVID-19 Virus
Data system problems left California with a backlog of about 300,000 lab reports.
COVID data failures create pressure for public health system overhaul
There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system, in which nearly 3,000 local, state and federal health departments set their own reporting rules and vary greatly in their ability to send and receive data electronically.
Cloud streamlines CARES Act grants management
With grants management taking on more importance in the pandemic, state and local governments are turning to cloud-based systems to streamline processing and reporting.
Machine learning could improve hurricane prediction
The approach could provide more accurate medium-term hurricane forecasts, allowing meteorologists to issue more timely warnings to communities in the path of potentially deadly storms.
Lack of public data hampers COVID-19 fight
Although standardizing the data states and localities publish is essential to COVID response. public health officials say providing better data isn’t so simple.
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