Los Angeles maximizes the data from its annual homeless count
The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count tracks the county and city populations annually to qualify for federal funding.
ICE taps into license plate recognition tech
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon have access to a database of license plate records that can also track vehicles in near real time.
The consumer electronics that power public safety
Connected emergency vehicles, mobile apps for responders and the internet of life saving things show the merging of consumer and public safety technology.
Argonne pushes global adoption of Cyber Fed Model
The web-based platform disseminates alerts through machine-to-machine information sharing.
Solving congestion with traffic data as a service
Location information from third-party smartphone and navigation applications gives StreeLight Data a near real-time look at around 20 percent of an area's traffic.
Study: Sentencing software just as bad at predicting recidivism as untrained volunteers
Researchers found that both a specialty algorithm and untrained volunteers were about 65 percent accurate in predicting recidivism.
Oklahoma seeks camera system to verify drivers' insurance
The state is looking for a system that would analyze a photo of a license plate and run it against a database to find out if the vehicle’s owner is insured.
Finding food poisoning cases via Yelp reviews
The New York City Health Department and Columbia University analyze Yelp comments for keywords indicating foodborne illness in the city.
DOE puts supercomputers to work on transportation efficiency
The Department of Energy will devote some of its supercomputing resources to two new early-stage research projects focusing on improving energy efficiency in transportation environments.
A giant technical leap in speech recognition
Researchers have digitized and transcribed thousands of hours of audio conversations between astronauts, mission-control specialists and back-room support staff during the Apollo moon missions.
Graph databases help agencies spot relationships across silos
The solution lets users connect data points among siloed datasets and applies machine learning so that their algorithms improve over time.
Last call for FCW's Federal 100 Award nominations
If you know someone doing outstanding work in federal IT, be sure to nominate them by Jan. 3.
DOD looks to analytics to fight fraudulent contractors
The Defense Logistics Agency wants to beef up its Business Decision Analytics tool to catch supply chain fraud and crack down on "CAGE jacking."
New York City moves to create accountability for algorithms
The New York City Council passed the country’s first bill to address algorithmic discrimination in city government.
Colorado puts technology in the driver's seat
The state is building the country's first production-grade, connected vehicle system in which real-time data is shared across vehicles, infrastructure and people.
Illinois drops predictive analytics for at-risk children
The predictive analytics program to identify children at risk for serious injury or death "didn't seem to be predicting much," the agency's director said.
Cutting continuous monitoring down to size
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is looking to reduce the effort dedicated to continuous monitoring.
Understand your data before collecting more
A top-down data review helped Virginia develop a shared service model for cybersecurity.
FAA promotes data awareness
By tapping into its vast stores of data, the Federal Aviation Administration hopes to spur innovation and increase efficiency.
FAA Shark Tank challenge promotes data awareness
Designed to highlight the agency's enterprise information management initiatives, Data Awareness Week includes a Shark Tank Data Challenge competition.
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