Big Data Reaches The Hill: A Guide To Making It More Actionable

From: AolGovernment  Big Data Reaches The Hill: A Guide To Making It More Actionable

By Brand Niemann

Published: October 10, 2012

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What Congress should do to help big data

• Allow access to confidential data such as the Census data centers
• Allow sharing between statistical agencies
• Have a chief data dfficer that promotes a federal data science community of data scientists and statisticians

The federal government should first focus on the value of big data

• Hadoop projects are costing 50 times more than expected
• DHS failed fast with a big data in the cloud project, but quickly and at less cost
• Semantic Medline on the Cray Graph Computer in an example of a federal data science team project with value

The federal government should foster real innovation with government data

• Encourage private industry to add value to government data
• Consider having the federal government's chief statistician be the chief data officer
• Empower the government's data scientists and statisticians to analyze big data and statistical data

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