Making peace between IT and data science teams
By understanding a few basic data science concepts, IT teams can better support their colleagues and limit the headaches along the way.
Open data when government is closed
The lapse in data services from shuttered government offices can have downstream effects beyond just static agency websites.
How to build and run a successful data team
A data-savvy staff that works to meet the requirements of program managers will deliver the insights agencies need to make sense of their data, a local government agency chief data officer says.
From pledges to action: Cities need to show their climate progress with hard data
Cities should generate and share local-scale information on greenhouse gases to demonstrate transparency and show that progress is real and not just on paper.
Creating an 'AI ecosystem' for government health data
A Feb. 7 demo day will showcase the results of the TOP Health initiative’s 14-week sprint.
How big data has created a big crisis in science
The reproducibility crisis is driven in part by invalid statistical analyses that are from data-driven hypotheses -- the opposite of how things are traditionally done.
Can smartphone data deliver better traffic stats?
The Federal Highway Administration is considering using passively collected data from smartphones and GPS signals to help it make sense of daily traffic volumes.
Data shows fewer parking spots relieve congestion
Cities are understanding that it makes more sense to reduce parking supply, set more efficient regulations and incentivize the use of non-automobile modes than to provide abundant, free parking.
How Waze partners with cities on data sharing
Under the Connected Citizens Program, participating cities and states get filtered data based on aggregated traffic information Waze collects from their communities of drivers.
FBI database links murders to serial killer
The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program's system is helping investigators fill in details of the 90 murders Samuel Little has confessed to.
Facial recognition shows big improvements
Gains in the accuracy of facial recognition technology over the last four years have been "revolutionary and not evolutionary," according to an expert from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Beagle sniffs out email scammers
By building visual representations of the connections in the data, Beagle makes it much easier to connect the dots and ultimately understand how scam networks operate.
DHS tweaking cyber 'credit score' program
The Agency-Wide Adaptive Risk Enumeration algorithm is already ingesting data, and the Department of Homeland Security plans to put it into production heading in FY2020.
Battling the opioid crisis with technology
State and local governments are incorporating both emerging and established technologies into their crisis response plans to fight the opioid epidemic.
NASA advises data sharing consortia for air mobility challenge
In new details released on its urban air mobility challenge, NASA says participants should from a consortia to share data.
Data wrangling: How data goes from raw to refined
Specialized software combines, formats and manages massive amounts of complex data for accurate and meaningful analysis.
When the numbers aren’t enough: How different data work together in research
Important questions almost always can be answered better with a combination of quantitative and qualitative research.
The promise and problems of including 'big data' in official government statistics
Although digital data may promise greater timeliness and efficiency compared to the traditional paper-based census, using it to measure populations and economies is not without challenges.
Learn about all the Public Sector Innovation winners
These 36 projects at the federal, state and local levels show just how transformative government IT can be.
Data mashups at government scale
The Administrative Data Research Facility gives authorized users access to a secure supercomputer, data science tools and thousands of datasets.
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