Big Data and the Campaign for the Presidency
photo credit: Ethan Blochby Angela Guess Obama is utilizing Big Data to a much greater extent than his opposition, and his use of social data might just make the difference in his campaign. A recent...
View ArticleMaking a Link Between Federal Agency Strategies and IT Expenditures
What do you get when you join up machine-readable representations of federal government agencies’ strategic plans and spending on IT resources? Expressing these as Linked Data adds value in that it...
View ArticleA Marriage Made For The Global, Digital Economy
At the recent SemTech Berlin conference, husband-and-wife team Michael Trevor McDonald and Kim Chandler McDonald, CTO and Executive VP, respectively, of KimmiC, led a session that discussed a marriage...
View ArticleWord to Semantic Web Startups: The JOBS Act Is On
If there’s one thing the Semantic Web arena is full of, it is start-ups. In fact, the slew of creative and innovative ideas out there coming from young companies is one of the reasons for the first...
View ArticleClosing In On A Million Open Government Data Sets
A million data sets. That’s the number of government data sets out there on the web that we have closed in on. “The question is, when you have that many, how do you search for them, find them,...
View ArticleOpen Government Partnership Celebrates First Anniversary
Kedar Pavgi of NextGov.com reports, "A year ago, President Obama and 46 other heads of state launched the Open Government Partnership, an initiative designed to increase transparency within governments...
View ArticleData in Politics
by Angela Guess Alex Kantrowitz of Forbes recently discussed the role of data and data modeling in politics. He writes, “Earlier this year, the Obama campaign posted a job ad which asked qualified data...
View ArticleObama’s Data Crunchers
by Angela Guess Michael Scherer of Time Swampland reports, “In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama’s campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost...
View ArticleAchieving Obama’s Energy Reduction Goal with Big Data
by Angela Guess Tyler Hamilton of The Energy Collective reports, “President Barack Obama set a new goal for America during his State of the Union address this week. He challenged states and...
View ArticleFederal Open Data Policy Will Require Excellent Data Management
by Angela Guess Wyatt Kash of Information Week reports, “The CIOs of federal agencies are assessing the full scope of a White House executive order, introduced May 9, that requires agencies to make...
View ArticlePoliticians Discovering the Benefits of Big Data
by Angela Guess Celina Durgin of The Washington Times reports, “The success of President Obama’s 2012 campaign was partly owed to its big data “dream team,” and now political parties at the state level...
View ArticleThe Big Data Conundrum in the White House
by Angela Guess Erin Chabrow of Bank Info Security recently wrote, “The Obama administration is in the midst of a four-week effort to get the public to chime in on policies the federal government could...
View ArticleTED Founder Isn’t a Fan of White House Big Data Policies
by Angela Guess Timothy J. Seppala of Engadget reports, “Richard Saul Wurman isn’t a fan of President Barack Obama’s push for data.gov, an online repository for big data. ‘That’s just politicians...
View ArticleSetting Government Data Free
by Jennifer Zaino As July 4 approaches, the subject of open government data can’t help but be on many U.S. citizens’ minds. That includes the citizens who are responsible for opening up that data to...
View ArticlePaying Too Much for FOIA
A new article from InfoVegan looks at the costs of the Freedom of Information Act and how those costs will only continue to rise if Data.gov and other open government sites go dark The post Paying Too...
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