GovLoop

MAY 9, 2024

People often use vague language such as “vast troves” and “growing exponentially” to describe the amount of data at the government’s disposal, but those terms don’t say much. And if you were to download all the data on the internet, it would take you 181 million years. It’s the same as 1 billion terabytes.

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Data Capacity Leadership Innovation 52

GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. I thought about that while listening to a recent GovLoop virtual event on data virtualization.

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Data Education Quality Budget 105

GovLoop

MAY 3, 2024

Governments collect and analyze a lot of data. Whoever makes decisions, having them see the value of using information is super important,” said Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Director of Evaluation and Impact at the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management. We all use data in our personal lives. Leventhal-Weiner said.

Data 52

Data Evaluation Collaboration Import 52

GovLoop

MAY 10, 2024

In Part 1 , we told you about some of the ways government agencies are using data to make a difference. But data — collected regularly — helps agencies compete by enabling them to monitor trends and plan. To foster a healthy and productive workforce, effective data analysis : Integrates disparate HR systems and eliminates data silos.

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Data Public Private Partnership Transparency Management 52

GovLoop

MARCH 11, 2024

Standards create the basis of security controls on which everyone can rely, said Richard Breakiron, Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives, Federal Sector, with Commvault, which provides agencies with comprehensive, intuitive, enterpriselevel data management solutions. You need to have a copy that is literally immutable.

Data 52

Data Networking Management Import 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Good Data Culture One thing successful agencies do is gather the resources they need to make data-driven decisions. “To To [be] able to do that in a fast and efficient manner, you have to have some form of a data culture established,” said Gilmore. Alteryx is here to help data governance and effective reporting.

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Data Integration Integrity Public Goods 59

GovLoop

MARCH 12, 2024

Agencies struggle with data for many reasons. Mismanaged data can lead to poor decision-making, increased risk and even legal fallout, but the No. Mismanaged data can lead to poor decision-making, increased risk and even legal fallout, but the No. Agencies need enormous amounts of data, potentially millions of data points.

Data 52

Data Management Education Efficiency 52

GovLoop

MAY 2, 2024

Through automation, predictive analytics and advanced data analysis, AI is set to enhance operations and service delivery, said Chris Steel, AI Practice Lead at AlphaSix, which provides data management platforms and tools for data analysis. This not only secures critical data, but streamlines operations,” Steel explained.

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Data Innovation Consulting Management 52

GovLoop

JANUARY 11, 2024

Migrating from state and local governments to federal agencies and back again, data is a dynamic resource. And that presents unique security challenges and the potential for what Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology with SolarWinds, calls “data spillage.” If your devices aren’t secure, your data is unprotected.

Data 59

Data Networking Engineering Import 59

GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

But to what extent should organizations collect personal data, and for what purposes? Data privacy is about an individual’s right to have some control over how their personal information is collected and used. However, it’s often unclear how much data an ADM system uses and what it ultimately does with the information.

Data 52

Data Insurance Education Government 52

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Agencies might have a wide variety of technological innovations to choose from, but for Nick Psaki at Pure Storage, those reforms all come down to one thing: data. Digital transformation fundamentally starts with your data,” Psaki said. Security: Increased ransomware and other events have made security extremely important.

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Innovation Data Capacity Budget 64

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Agencies generate and analyze a lot of data these days. We talked to three employees at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Development Department (CDD) about how they use visualization to help data fulfill its purpose. There’s nothing more transparent than raw data. That’s where data visualization comes in.

Data 64

Data Transparency Import Transportation 64

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the era of ‘big data,’ a term that undoubtedly describes the large and complex datasets that businesses generate and exchange, it is increasingly complex for international businesses to navigate the challenge of storing, processing, and analysing their data.

Data 59

Data Participation Corruption Transparency 59

GovLoop

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Agencies generate and analyze a lot of data these days. We talked to three employees at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Development Department(CDD) about how they use visualization to help data fulfill its purpose. That’s where data visualization comes in. Before, you could give them a data table and they’d accept it.

Data 59

Data Transparency Import Transportation 59

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 11, 2024

Louis University ‘s (SLU) Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) required vast quantities of anonymized cell phone data in order to study the impacts of large-scale social problems like homelessness and access to healthcare. Finding a reliable data supplier was relatively simple. Cleaning the data.

Data 81

Data Education Quantity Warehouse 81

GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

Government agencies often espouse the need for data-driven decision-making, but where should the data come from? Taka Ariga, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Chief Data Scientist and Director of its Innovation Lab, has many thoughts on these topics. Who should determine how it’s used? The Obstacles.

Data 59

Data Insurance Accountability Quality 59

GovLoop

MAY 9, 2023

Agencies are using data in new ways — sharing across departments, in the field, and with remote workers and the public. That unleashes the power of data to serve the mission, make informed decisions and make programs more effective. It also exposes the data to more risks, and not all of them can be avoided.

Data 52

Data Distribution Corruption Accountability 52

GovLoop

JANUARY 4, 2023

Proprietary database products pose substantial risk to government agencies, especially as data moves to the cloud. To accelerate innovation and achieve modern enterprise application success, they need the agility to manage data seamlessly, both on premises and in the cloud. Among open source RDBMS, Postgres is the gold standard.

Data 59

Data Innovation Management Efficiency 59

GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Having worked in Texas state government for more than 15 years, Chief Data Officer Neil Cooke understands firsthand the difference that data can make. During his seven years there, he and his team looked at how to use data to measure various programs’ performance. One key concern is data lineage: Where did the data come from?

Data 52

Data Education Quality Strategic Planning 52

AWS Public Sector

MAY 9, 2024

Introduction Government agencies are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to extract valuable insights from their data in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Regions. medium instance to run the optional notebook code snippets.

Data 78

Data Import Utilities Management 78

FedScoop

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Modern solutions integrating third-party consumer data and device intelligence are becoming essential to combat synthetic identities and safeguard public services, according to a new report produced by Scoop News Group for TransUnion. Download the full report. The report also emphasizes that digital fraud threats are intensifying.

Integration 68

Integration Integrity Import Data 68

GovLoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To commit to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives, public sector leaders must work through some important considerations related to their workforce, finance processes and policies. Outdated IT systems: Legacy technology simply isn’t designed to keep up with the data and analytics required for effective DEIA initiatives.

Finance 92

Finance Supplier Data Import 92

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They are important carbon sinks, are home to around 80 percent of the animal species living on land, and form the basis of life for around 1.6 SeloVerde integrates governmental databases, innovative map services, and land-use data from high spatial resolution satellite imagery. Forests are crucial for climate protection. SeloVerde 2.1

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Data Sustainability Transparency 75

GovLoop

AUGUST 26, 2024

Readying them for AI has highlighted the importance of architectures that enable AI use at scale. But, according to Rose, “you cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy.” An Ecosystem for Data Legacy data architectures are expensive — and, in some cases, impossible — to maintain. And that’s right.

Data 52

Data Import Utilities Efficiency 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. With data excellence as one of the pillars of their mission, TenderNed has been working on creating better data within the Dutch government for several years.

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Data Tender Procurement E-procurement 52

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Generative AI specifically enables agencies to automate complex tasks such as content creation, data analysis and predictive modeling,” said Maria Fahmi, Executive Vice President, Technology & Engineering, with V3Gate, which specializes in providing emerging technology to the public sector. “It

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Quality Data Ethics Import 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The business case for data-driven transparency is not hard to make. In today’s dynamic, complex market, where procurement’s objectives continue to grow, data is the fuel for success. While data quality cannot be perfected and some technological innovations aren’t quite ready for prime time, tremendous improvements are possible.

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Transparency Supply Chain Data Procurement 52

Extract Systems

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of the most important things we do for our customers is to automatically redact sensitive information within county records. It’s an impressive data set to work with as the city’s portal currently hosts more than 1,100 active data files. Government Technology looked at both the most viewed and most downloaded files.

Data 52

Data Transportation Transportation Import 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Data analysis offers additional opportunities. Although familiar AI offerings are free to the public, that obscures hefty costs, including energy and data center requirements. “We We just type in this little dialogue box, or we download a document or ask it a question. We don’t see what goes on behind it,” Shark said.

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Government Government Quality Transportation 69

GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Here’s how one agency enhanced their cybersecurity disaster prevention and recovery plan so they could bounce back quickly from an attack: Imagine a federal agency awash in data. The intelligent backup solution also helped to classify data based on operational relevance to ensure a rapid-response capability. Favorite

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Capacity Demand Import Data 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So, to help identify it, the county’s tech experts used a six-week annual hackathon this year to find an innovative way to study foreclosure data as an important first step to addressing disparity. Often, the county received data in Excel spreadsheets. It was like ‘Hey, where can we get the data? Get the guide.

Data 64

Data Innovation Import Government 64

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 19, 2024

Introduction Government agencies are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to extract valuable insights from their data in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Regions. This will help our fine-tuned language model recognize a common query format.

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Import Data Quality Efficiency 122

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Especially for organizations with relatively small development teams, GenAI “is where the immediate, low-hanging fruit is,” said Tony Holmes, Practice Lead for Solutions Consultants, Public Sector in North America, at Pluralsight, which provides skills training through an online data-analytics platform. And then there’s workforce culture.

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Leadership Innovation Education Data 52

GovLoop

MARCH 7, 2023

There are of things to consider when it comes to using and storing your agency’s data in the cloud: Can employees easily get the information they need, whether they are working remotely or in the office? Is data being backed up properly, so precious work isn’t lost? Favorite

Data 59

Data Import IT 59

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 31, 2024

AI and ML empower transportation agencies to extract valuable insights from their raw data collected using IoT devices like sensors and cameras, enhancing the quality of services. However, these organizations encounter challenges in data accuracy validation due to issues related to data quality and occasional missing information.

Transportation 78

Transportation Transportation Export Data 78

GovLoop

AUGUST 2, 2023

Budgets and outdated technology often present as obstacles for protecting your agency’s sensitive data, but those hurdles must be overcome to eliminate cyber risk. This method gave them the data security and sovereignty it required, because no vendor ever touches or sees any DoD data. Favorite

Budget 52

Budget Data Import IT 52

GovLoop

JULY 3, 2024

But people aren’t always aware their data is already at risk of a quantum attack, according to Hickman. “We We know data is being stolen now for decryption later,” he said. It’s important that you find [all of them] and that you continue to have that visibility,” Hickman said.

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Inventory Leadership Data Management 105