Data Storytelling: How to Connect Data to People
Data storytelling storytelling bridges the gap between accumulating data and doing something about it. Here’s how it’s done.
Analytics
What Story Is Your Data Telling?
Manually integrating their data costs agencies too much time and too much money. An industry expert explains how automation can help agencies tell a better data story.
How AI Opens up Other Types of Data
Agencies have a wealth of unstructured data — images, audio recordings and other information that doesn’t fit neatly in traditional databases or lend itself to analysis by traditional data tools — at their fingertips. So how can government make sense of all this data? How can agencies actually use it?
Why Stronger Security Hinges on Identity Data
At the crux of every cybersecurity strategy is an identity data management challenge: How much information does an agency need to verify the identity of an individual requesting access to network resources?
Data-Driven Decision-Making Gets Real
To make evidence-based policy, takes more than information–it requires the ability to turn information into knowledge and to base decisions on it.
Potter County, PA Used Maps and Data to Bridge the Digital Divide
A rural Pennsylvania community expanded broadband internet services using GIS.
How to Make Digital Documents Work for You
Manually sifting through data is time-consuming and terribly inefficient. A digital approach to documentation, however, can yield faster, more accurate and more insightful outcomes.
Think Like a Business
Technology is not a panacea for an agency’s IT ills, says one industry leader. Rather, tech is an enabler, a way for government agencies to move beyond bureaucracy and adopt a more businesslike mindset. And an agency’s success depends in large part on its willingness to embrace automation and find industry partners.
How ‘Smart City’ Tech Can Ease Local Parking Woes and Set Local Businesses up for Success
When it comes to personal automobiles, policymakers tend to focus on concerns such as emissions and safety, but there’s one problem they often overlook: parking. How can cities and towns alleviate consumer frustration while taking advantage of potential revenue? Technology is the answer.
Government Transformation: Adopting Cloud for Maximum Impact
Government needs to provide both its employees and the public with modernized online experiences, including on-demand access to data and services. But facing an array of challenges, how can agencies deliver what they should? An innovative, “single pane of glass” approach gives states the ability to let people easily access resources from multiple agencies and… Read more »