(This article was originally published at Access to Statistics, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
From: AolGovernment Big Data Reaches The Hill: A Guide To Making It More Actionable
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
- 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
- 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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