Data is a valuable asset to the U.S. government and the public. Making it accessible and usable intensifies democracy in the country. It also promotes effectiveness in the government, as well as efficiency in each branch. Project Open Data is a place where fostering collaboration and promoting improvement in open data policy is intended. This […]
Making Data FAIR for All
It is tempting, when pursuing a project that requires heavy use of data, to focus just on that particular project. Collect or locate the data needed to answer the question at hand, work out the conclusions based on that data, act on the conclusions, and discard the data. But there has been a growing awareness, […]
How to Ensure Data Integrity in Your Organization
We are living in an era of data and analytics. It is the time when organizations are consuming, generating, modifying, and exchanging an insane amount of data. Now, failing to keep track of data that is being consumed, generated, modified, exchanged, or deleted within your organization can have a major impact on your business decisions. […]
3 Ways to Close the Data Gaps in Commercial Banking
Click to learn more about author Clayton Weir. Over the last few years, retail banking has done a tremendous job of making the user experience sleeker and more frictionless. Yet, for all of the great strides that have been made in revolutionizing the retail banking experience – both on the front- and back-end – the […]
Will They Blend? Meeting the Semantic Web
Click to learn more about author Martyna Pawletta. Let’s see if we can serve pizza via the Semantic Web and an analytics platform. Will they blend? Ontologies study concepts that directly relate to “being,” i.e., concepts that relate to existence and reality as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. In information science, […]
Seven Tools for Effective CDO Leadership
The position of Chief Data Officer (CDO) is relatively new in the federal government, and emerging regulations are providing leadership opportunities for the CDO. A new law, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, went into effect on January 14, 2019, establishing a set of standards and practices for the United States federal government to modernize […]
Assessing the Risks and Challenges on the Road to Owning Training Data
Click to learn more about author Sameer Vadera. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have an insatiable appetite for consuming data. Today’s AI models for business applications are built to ingest massive amounts of complex data sets. The cost of collecting and curating data for training AI models, however, can be staggering. In the context of the […]
Domino Data Lab Launches Fully Kubernetes-Native Data Science Platform
A recent press release states, “Domino Data Lab, provider of the industry-leading open data science platform, announced its Kubernetes-native compute grid, supporting elastic scaling for data science workloads in all major cloud platforms and on premises. With its strategic adoption of Kubernetes, Domino now enables forward-looking IT organizations to streamline and enhance their data science […]
Adobe, Microsoft and SAP Announce the Open Data Initiative
According to a recent press release, “On Monday, the CEOs of Adobe, Microsoft and SAP introduced the Open Data Initiative at the Microsoft Ignite conference. Together, the three longstanding partners are reimagining customer experience management (CXM) by empowering companies to derive more value from their data and deliver world-class customer experiences in real-time. In today’s […]
UN Environment and Google Announce Ground-Breaking Partnership to Protect our Planet
A recent press release reports, “UN Environment and Google announced today a global partnership that promises to change the way we see our planet. Combining environmental science, big data and unprecedented accessibility, this joint effort aims to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems. When completed, the platform […]