Can electricity use predict a bad morning commute?
Data on household electricity consumption could help transit agencies predict morning traffic congestion, new research suggests.
Analytics for city governments
Cities will soon be required to master data analytics if they are to hold their own in the rapidly modernizing world, a new report says.
Big data for a better vacation
The National Park Service wants to tap into location-based data to track visitor-use patterns it can use for improving visitor experience and long-range transportation and infrastructure planning.
NIH enlists Google Cloud for biomedical research
The National Institutes of Health's STRIDES Initiative aims to partner with commercial cloud providers to reduce economic and technology barriers to biomedical research.
3D scanner speeds police investigations
The scanner captures more than 900,000 data points per second that can be used to create 3D images of a crime or accident scene.
Deep learning quickly finds structures affected by lava
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is using data from Oak Ridge National Lab to see what structures have been overtaken by the Kilauea lava flow.
How analytics helps reduce opioid use disorder among Medicare patients
Using spatial economic modeling on a high-powered analytics platform, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been able to identify high-risk clusters of patients.
Delivering citizen-centric state government
State CIOs can take advantage of cloud, business intelligence and automation tools to meet the increasing expectations of a demanding citizenry.
The SEC powers up financial analysis
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s cloud-based data science workstations give quantitative analysts better performance, less latency and access to the latest financial analytics tools.
Promoting traffic safety through data visualization
The Department of Transportation is sponsoring the development of visualization tools to help policy makers, transportation providers and the public better understand transportation safety data.
Smart pavement testing in Colorado
Connected pavement will be able to notify first responders when a car goes off the road.
Bringing machine learning to image analysis
AWS technology is helping DigitalGlobe streamline the processes for building, training and deploying models that can improve the analysis of satellite images.
Data shines light on opioid victims, potential solutions
Big data analysis, systems integration and even emerging tech like artificial intelligence can be pressed into service combatting the opioid crisis, health experts say.
Open data grows up
Initially a tool for transparency or internal efficiency, open data is starting to drive communities into hard conversations.
Open source traffic management
The Louisville Metro Government has taken lessons learned from a Waze partnership and built an open source tool that other local governments can use to spot traffic problems.
How data and analytics can help mitigate the opioid epidemic
Data, linking and analytics can help officials examine the underlying issues behind the criminal element spearheading the opioid crisis, as well as the reasons why so many have fallen victim to it.
An analytics engine for personalized emergency response
The synthetic information platform organizes large-scale interacting datasets so policymakers can predict how people will respond in a disaster.
Do you know where your data's been?
Data lineage gives IT managers visibility so they can trace errors, debug applications or recreate lost output.
Earth modeling system built for exascale
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model will forecast how land, air and water systems interact.
GEOWorks opens NGA data, tools
The newly launched platform gives developers easier access to resources of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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