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Big Data

  • US: Maryland: Baltimore Fills New Chief Data Officer Role

    Big data and open data being the hot topics they are, it was perhaps only a matter of time before the role of “chief data officer” was created. San Francisco created the position, Philadelphia has one, and Chicago will likely replace outgoing CDO Brett Goldstein soon. And on June 1, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Heather Hudson as Baltimore's first chief data officer. Hudson, who started her new role on May 20, spent the past two years as the IT project manager in the Mayor’s Office of Information Technology.

    In addition to continuing her work on the city's open data portal, OpenBaltimore, Hudson will be responsible for data warehousing and heading big data and business intelligence efforts in her new role.

  • US: State and Local Govs Need to Improve Data Sharing, Big Data Use

    Like the feds, state and local agencies have improved how they share and use big data, but a new report shows areas that still need improvement.

    Like their federal counterparts, state and local agencies have made great strides in acquiring and using big data — but they still have a long way to go, according to a source in the industry.

  • US: States Use Big Data to Nab Tax Fraudsters

    Technology has made it easier for people to commit tax fraud and for governments to catch it.

    It’s tax season again. For most of us, that means undergoing the laborious and thankless task of assembling financial records and calculating taxes for state and federal returns. But for a small group of us, tax season is profit season. It’s the time of year when fraudsters busy themselves with stealing identities and electronically submitting fraudulent tax returns for refunds.

  • US: Top 10 Tactics Cities Can Use to Do More with Big Data

    By 2020, we will create approximately 44 trillion gigabytes of data each year — and cities worldwide are trying to find new ways to use this data to improve planning and decision-making, increase transparency, and build smarter, more resilient networks. These strategies can help.

    Anyone involved in technology is well aware of the now-famous 1965 observation by Gordon Moore that the number of components in an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Moore’s Law has been an industry standard used to benchmark the exponential progress for computing processing for the past 50 years.

  • US: Washington: Seattle: Protecting Big Data

    Seattle’s digital privacy initiative aims to keep innovation on track with new data safeguards.

    Big data can produce big operational and policy breakthroughs. And if not carefully addressed, it can produce even larger privacy concerns or a backlash. To date, most cities have been fortunate to avoid the backlash, but more as a result of good intentions than specific polices.

  • Why the fuss about big data?

    Each of us is drowning in a sea of self and machine generated data. This all contributes to the global ocean called big data. Simply put, big data is data that’s too large or complex to be effectively handled by standard database technologies currently found in most organisations.

    With the increasing use of public cloud technologies, much of our digital footprint lies outside of our own organisations. As an individual, your personal contributions include transactions such as your email traffic, Internet search history, those geotagged images you take on your smartphone and share through social media sites, your retail purchases, loyalty program transactions, payments and road toll payments, to name but a few.

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