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Snowflake Debuts New Government and Education Data Cloud
Snowflake has unveiled its latest industry-specific offering---the Government and Education Data Cloud. The company says its Government and Education Data Cloud is aimed at empowering educational institutions and publ Read more…
Why Knowledge Graph for Financial Services? Real Use Cases
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Forward thinking organizations are deploying semantic Knowledge Graphs as a powerful option to meet growing functional data management challenges. Knowledge Graphs are not just in academia, every day new enterprise knowl Read more…
COVID-19 Has a Data Governance Problem
The COVID-19 pandemic has put many of the world’s activities at a stand-still. Scientists and government officials have been working furiously behind the scenes to forecast the spread and growth of the virus since the Read more…
U.S. Open Data Push Advances
The push for open government data got a boost this week with passage of a budget bill that includes language codifying open data requirements for the federal government. Senate passage of the Defense Department spendi Read more…
Analytics Vendor NCI Acquired By Investors
NCI Inc., a big data analytics and IT vendor to the Defense Department and other federal and state government agencies, said it has agreed to be acquired by a private equity investment fund. NCI said Monday (July 3) i Read more…
U.S. Names First Chief Data Scientist
An industry veteran and college math professor who is partially credited with coining the title "data scientist" has been named the nation's first chief data scientist. The White House announced the appointment of DJ Read more…
Personal Data Is Not Forever, EU Court Says
Freedom of information on the Internet is a driving force behind the big data phenomenon, and underscores the ability of organizations to collect and process it. But in a case involving Google, Europe’s top court today Read more…
Survey: Big Data a Low Priority Among Governments in U.S.
While funding debates rage in Washington D.C., a new survey reveals that big data is the lowest IT priority among federal, state, and local government IT decision makers. Read more…
Civic Hacking Targets Optimizing Government
What do you get when you cross the Peace Corps with the Geek Squad? Aside from a rich supply of lunch money, you might get the group of civic coding crusaders known as Code for America. Read more…
New York City Calls in the Code Corps
In his State of the City Address, New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg sounded the call for a volunteer "Code Corps" to help make use of the city's ever growing pipeline of data. Read more…
How DARPA Does Big Data
This week we step back to see how the recent U.S government's push to further big data technologies is panning out--and how a military intelligence research agency like DARPA is addressing their own set of specific challenges. We zoom in on a number of specifics projects, including Mind's Eye, PROCEED, XDATA and others to gain a.... Read more…
Big Data Lessons for Big Government
Earlier this year, DataXu set out to obtain a baseline gauge of how enterprise organizations are dealing with big data and how these lessons could be carried over to government. Developed and fielded by Human 1.0 and the Society for.... Read more…
7 Big Winners in the U.S. Big Data Drive
Last week the U.S. announced a formalized approach to big data through its newly-minted Big Data Initiative. Under the new program, a number of unique projects that focus on data management, collaboration, analytics, visualization and more have received the breath of life. We've narrowed down seven out of the dozens that.... Read more…
Government Puts $200 Million Behind Big Data Initiative
This week the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the United States announced a massive injection of funding to create and support big data research and development efforts. The government says that the Big Data Initiative will work to support a number of agencies, including the Department of Defense.... Read more…
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