Tag: open data
Charting Safe Passages Through the Urban Jungle with Big Data
When you visit a big American city for the first time, you probably wonder where it's safe to go, and what areas it would be best to avoid. Wouldn't it be great to have an app that advised you? Researchers recently demon Read more…
Commerce Department to Hire Data Czar
In an effort to make greater use of government data, the U.S. Commerce Department is hiring its first chief data officer and convening an industry panel to make agency data more accessible. Several agencies within the Read more…
Big Data Practitioners Ponder Privacy Issues
A panel of big data executives acknowledged the need for trust, privacy and transparency in the handling of consumer information and called for rules of the road to ensure that privacy concerns do not derail technology i Read more…
Enigma.io Claims to Demystify Data; Receives Round
Enigma.io says that they have sanitized and curated over 100,000 streams of publicly available data and have reportedly been granted $1.1 million dollars in venture equity seed money to take their big data project to the next level. 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…
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