Navy’s intell requires automated analytics
The Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence is looking for automated analytics tools to help make data more accessible, discoverable and available to analysts more quickly after it is collected.
Big data: How to know it when you see it
Big data is often described by its Vs: volume, velocity, variety, variability and veracity.
FWHA seeks no-cost cloud for transportation data
Federal Highway Administration is looking for partners who can provide a no-cost option for transforming its datasets into an easy access, cloud-based format.
IoT apps coming to a city near you
More than 30 teams are participating in the Global City Teams Challenge, pursuing projects related to integrating the Internet of Things into public safety, energy and transportation applications.
CyberGIS: infrastructure for massive geospatial data, processes
CyberGIS is a geospatial-specific infrastructure that manages, processes and visualizes massive and complex geospatial data, while performing associated analysis and simulation.
U.S. organizations say a third of their data is bad
A global study discovers that organizations suffer from three common data quality errors: incomplete or missing data, outdated information and inaccurate data.
How big data tool experience tracks with tech salaries
Data analysts and engineers who know how to use the advanced, recently developed tools of big data typically can pull in high salaries.
Cheat sheet for the Internet of Things
Buckle up because the Internet of Things is about to take off fast. Here's a quick list of the basics of the new super network.
Is the term ‘big data’ passé?
While 'big data' was useful at one point in encapsulating the idea of exploiting huge volumes of structured and unstructured information, many feel the term is past its sell-by date.
Map merge: How USGS integrates geospatial systems
While geographic information systems have become well established in the federal government, the current challenge for agencies is to integrate their data with that from their counterparts in other jurisdictions.
Big data promises a health care remedy
Government agencies are making strides testing uses of big data to predict risks of disease or the path of a killer virus, but hurdles remain, including linking legacy datasets and setting up common vocabularies.
Student loan office casts net for ‘creative’ credit analysis
The Office of Federal Student Aid looks for new and unconventional data models to determine the credit worthiness of its loan applicants.
How a computing powerhouse delivers health care insights
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab used three diverse high-performance computing architectures to analyze publicly available health-related datasets.
Elevation data helps prepare for natural disasters, climate change
The elevation data will better enable scientists to monitor the impact of sea-level rise, conduct environmental monitoring activities and support local decision making.
Novetta Entity Analytics connects unstructured enterprise data
Novetta’s Entity Analytics software connects structured, semi-structured and unstructured data within Hadoop, enabling powerful analytic queries.
Big data best practices from down under
The Australian government’s guide aims to help agencies leverage their data assets by adopting big data and analytics tools.
Nowcasting: Disease monitoring at Internet speed
New research adds to growing evidence that disease monitoring techniques using social media are emerging to take the place of costlier and slower traditional tools.
CUNY students turn Watson loose on NYC challenges
College students compete to develop the best apps using Watson’s supercomputing powers to solve city problems.
Chicago builds ETL toolkit for open data
Data officials in Chicago built an automated extract transform load (ETL) framework to more quickly and easily open city data.
Science community building standard data formats
Some scientific fields that do not have standard data formats are creating new platforms to facilitate the information sharing that will advance research.
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