GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. EJI draws its data from the CDC, Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency, and Mine Safety and Health Administration.

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GovLoop

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s called RescueVision , and it’s an application that gives the Fire and Rescue Department’s 911 dispatch center real-time data on what’s happening where. The new system has notably improved the county’s ability to serve its residents and demonstrates the government’s belief in data-informed decision- making, county officials said.

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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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GovLoop

MAY 9, 2023

The Problem The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had an abundance of satellite data that government and commercial organizations could use to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts, but it was scattered across multiple offices. Cloud was in the forecast.

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2024

During WCH’s transition over to new technology, including adopting a modernized data platform, it discovered three ways to make the overall path to change go more smoothly: 1. Treat data as code and use infrastructure as code in development environments and quality assurances phases, in addition to production.

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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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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.

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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?

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Where it is being used — for such as in digital assistants and chatbots — the quality of the responses has become more realistic. The quality of voice responses has really improved, almost to the point where it’s hard to decipher whether this person is real or virtual,” he said. Data analysis offers additional opportunities.

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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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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Using various data points such as bank account numbers, location coordinates, equipment types and names, analysts can derive a cohesive “story” from the data that aids the mission. To do this, traditionally, analysts combed through data from various sources — spreadsheets, databases, cloud storage, etc. — Data is similar.

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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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ivalua

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Procure-to-pay (P2P) automation and analytics won’t work very well without accurate supplier master data. Yet that goal — data accuracy — remains a considerable challenge for many Procurement and Accounts Payable organizations. Accurate supplier master data is just one aspect of a Digital Procurement journey.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In data transformation and innovation, it helps to view things through a different lens. It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector with Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.”

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

In data transformation, it helps to view things through a different lens. It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector at Snowflake Inc. Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.”

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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. Converting the weights to a smaller representation affects the quality of the LLM output.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Federal Insights - GSA's FAS streamlining - 9/19/24 [link] Download audio In the battle to modernize and streamline federal procurement, the General Services Administration is on the front lines and in the trenches. It began with a back end focus on how data was stored, and then moved to the front end once that feedback had been gathered.

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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.

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GovLoop

JUNE 27, 2023

Cities use the data to develop heat action plans, add cooling stations, focus urban forestry efforts, and support policy, research and education. They carried heat, humidity and particulate matter sensors and GPS units that collected data once every second along the route. It’s important to connect the data collection with real change.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has made available a Data in Emergencies (DIEM) system. Data is regularly collected and made available to help users understand the impact of shocks in food crisis areas. A scheduler periodically launches the AWS Lambda data processor.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 20, 2024

The 2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant application instructions are now available for download. The successful Pathfinder – Generative AI project will build on an existing data foundation and have a defined generative AI use case in the planning phase. The first application deadline is June 3, 2024.

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GovLoop

JUNE 6, 2023

The researchers were able to provide new information that just simply hadn’t been provided, but also help us learn that it is possible to collect data in a less costly way than trying to go out to the streets and interview people,” said Gary Painter, Director of USC’s Homelessness Policy Research Institute, which released the initial findings.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

IDB staff calculations based on The Conference Board’s Total Economy Database (TED). (*) Data for 2022 is estimated and for 2023 is projected. Institutional Quality Matters Another important finding of our research is that the effect of public debt on growth depends on institutional quality.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Federal Monthly Insights — Contract Management Modernization — 09/10/2024 [link] Download audio Defense contractors aren’t the only ones preparing for the launch of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0. “NIST is the precursor.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Either way, the quality of your data will suffer. For example, respondents to one North Carolina survey expressed frustration with spotty internet access, Kinkade said, even though state-level data showed great coverage statewide. Let them know, ‘What are we doing with this data? How is this helping the state?

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. When choosing a model, it’s important to understand its training data. 2018) dataset.

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GovLoop

MAY 22, 2023

The Problem: Need for reliable, real-time data Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that would expose the extent of a problem and suggest possible solutions. In addition, the allocation of funding for the Chicago Head Start program has become unclear, and officials might stop compiling Head Start data citywide as a result.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2024

They are very vital in making sure that health care institutions get the necessary resources to be able to provide quality health care to patients. Preparing Winning Bids Downloading Tender Documentation Tracker Intelligence provides one click download link for tenders which makes it easier to get the tender documents.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Will it raise the quality and speed of your output? Her team also manages AI platforms, monitoring who uses them and what data flows through them. Think About Your Data Most of us have been blown away by ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies — and also by some of the mistakes they make, said Kinnard.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that would expose the extent of a problem and suggest possible solutions. Unlike the Chicago suburbs and elsewhere in Illinois, the city lacked until recently a research-gathering body that offered a broad spectrum of data about these youngsters. Solution: An Integrated Data Platform.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 2, 2024

The image API allows researchers to zoom in and conduct a deep analysis of digitized resources while saving bandwidth by only downloading the needed data. To allow images to load quickly, the IIIF protocol only requests the quality and the pixels the viewer sees at that moment, with the pixels on the edge of the image cached.

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GovLoop

MARCH 14, 2024

It is already transforming data collection, analysis and access, cybersecurity, and workforce management. DOE uses AI to leverage a broad, multimodal data stream to predict and understand natural disaster scenarios. The EO also calls for expanded grants for AI research related to health care and climate change.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One option for a workplace makeover is shared quality time. Hamilton said that “the people who value shared quality time, they’re going to appreciate you, and you didn’t have to go into an office to do it.” To read more about ways to innovate successfully, download it here: Get the guide Illustration by Calista Lam Favorite

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Collaboration is an essential component of innovation, so agencies should nurture this quality whenever possible. My best advice is to play the long game by building relationships,” said Carlos Rivero, Virginia’s former Chief Data Officer. ” Download the e-book. 2 – Avoid easy fixes. 3 – Reduce complexity.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This tradeoff works best when organizations embrace FinOps, Cloud Financial Management (CFM) best practices that take a data-driven approach to maximizing business value from cloud spend. Applying the CFM framework in your company The methodology follows a four-step, data-driven approach: 1.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 10, 2023

From new visual analytics platforms to data extraction and management tools to virtual environments for enhanced collaboration, Kim Wittenberg has made her fair share of technology transitions. To see more of our experts’ ideas on using cloud and cloud-based services to help your agency adapt to change, download our guide.

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