Tag: government

Feed: What's New. Author: Jackie Yeaney. This post draws on a conversation I had during the 2021 Tableau Government Summit with Josh Martin, Chief Data Officer at the State of Indiana, Drew Erdmann, Chief Operating Officer at the State of Missouri, and Nick Speece, Chief Federal Technologist at Snowflake. There is a saying about culture that you’ve probably heard, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” which is often attributed to Australian businessman Peter Drucker. Maybe you’ve read it in a book, or recognize it from a podcast recording or two (or three or four). It’s nearly ubiquitous in management literature and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Fernando Reis. In Europe, government agencies and policy makers see the value in using new technology to unlock digital transformation and deliver better, more innovative citizen services. Using data for statistics initiatives, including open data, can help researchers produce innovative products and tools, including visualisation, to inform government officials ahead of making policy decisions that impact their citizens. Data has always been important, even before big data. The European Commission started with evidence-based policy making many years ago. Benchmarking against each other and against commonly agreed targets using statistical indicators has been a notable ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lee Ann Dietz. Almost a year ago, in the depths of despair after the first 100 days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote a post on how government agencies could consider their options using a framework called Respond, Recover and Reimagine. Now, with greater vaccine availability and mass vaccination by governments – in the US, over 3.5 million per day – it's time for public sector agencies to reassess their situations. First, let me state the obvious: not many expected the death toll from this virus, and few others expected the huge economic and societal changes ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Bill Primerarno; Can your Financial Planning & Analytics team (FP&A) alter financial plans, reforecast and modify budgets in real-time? Or, have traditional processes kept your entire corporate finance team tied to spreadsheets and outdated expectations? We know that extended planning and analysis (xP&A) is the gold standard for how companies will approach planning. xP&A is the focus of the digital transformation, and FP&A is one of the defining use cases. Accurate forecasting drives reliable, data-driven decisions, but too often the work is created in an ad hoc manner and siloed across business units. As ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances with EMR Versions 6.1.0, 5.31.0 and later in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing 64-bit ArmNeoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Please read our blog for more information. On Graviton2 instances, Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark provides an additional cost savings of up to 30%, and improved performance of up to 15% relative to equivalent previous generation instances. Additionally, TPC-DS3 TB benchmark queries ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Security Hub is now athorized as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US) and is available for security posture management on high-impact workloads. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP follows the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800 series and requires cloud service providers to receive an independent security assessment conducted by a third-party assessment organization (3PAO) to ensure that authorizations are compliant with the Federal Information Security ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Stephanie Glen. Bad data is worse than no data at all. What is “good” data and where do you find it? Best practices for data analysis. There’s no such thing as perfect data, but there are several factors that qualify data as good [1]: It’s readable and well-documented, It’s readily available. For example, it’s accessible through a trusted digital repository. The data is tidy and re-usable by others with a focus on ease of (re-)executability and reliance on deterministically obtained results [2]. Following a few best practices will ensure that any ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Abhishek Peter. In these uncertain and unprecedented times due to the COVID-19 outbreak, more and more businesses are witnessing a slow-down in their operations. However, the construction market is continuing to be resilient in spite of the tremendous challenges brought about by COVID-19 pandemic. When it comes to construction sites, drive-thru strategies and work from home are not feasible as they need to run job sites. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one such technology in construction industry, which is helping to sustain in these trying times. According to a Research Dive published ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: dmwiig. Visual Representation of Text Data Sets Using the R tm and wordcloud Packages: Part One Douglas M. Wiig This paper is the next installment in series that examines the use of R scripts to present and analyze complex data sets using various types of visual representations. Previous papers have discussed data sets containing a small number of cases and many variable, and data sets with a large number of cases and many variables. The previous tutorials have focused on data sets that were numeric. In this tutorial I will discuss some uses of the R packages ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Hugo Bowne-Anderson. It seems harder than ever to agree with others on basic facts, let alone to develop shared values and goals: we even claim to live in a post-truth era1. With anti-vaxxers, QAnon, Bernie Bros, flat earthers, the intellectual dark web, and disagreement worldwide as to the seriousness of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of masks, have we lost our shared reality? For every piece of information X somewhere, you can likely find “not X” elsewhere. There is a growing disbelief and distrust in basic science and government. All too often, conversations on social media descend rapidly ... Read More