Analytics

How the Sharing of “Knowledge Power” Will Tackle Your Agency’s Problems

Without leadership’s proactive, strategic support and guidance, any tech investment into knowledge-sharing will amount to very little. Fortunately, this needed support is taking hold here within the corridors of the Nation’s Capital.

How Cognitive Computing Can Change Government

Cognitive computing is not just a change; it is the dawn of the next era of computing. It capitalizes on the latest technological advancements, a computer system that learns from its environment, while providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges that government faces by providing insights not available until now.

Financial Data Standards Should Be…

This week, GovLoop’s very own Nicole Blake Johnson moderated a panel discussion at the Data Coalition’s Financial Data Summit in Washington, D.C. The esteemed panelists included: Srinivas Bangarbale, Chief Data Officer, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Gwendolyn Mitchell, Manager, Metadata and Taxonomy Operations, Federal Reserve Justin Stekervetz, Associate Director of Strategy and Standards, Office of FinancialRead… Read more »

How Data Analytics Drives Real-Time and Forensic Analyses

Depending on the type of analysis agencies want to conduct — real-time or historical — there are different data gathering and analytics tools to support those efforts. Let’s take a closer look at each of these examples to better understand how they benefit government agencies.

How the Financial Transparency Act will Bring Open Data to Financial Regulation

The proposed Financial Transparency Act brings about a lot of questions. How exactly will it transform financial regulation? The video below explains how: Most financial regulatory agencies still use outdated document-based formats, instead of standardized, open data, to collect information from the financial industry. The Financial Transparency Act (H.R. 2477), introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa andRead… Read more »

3 Ways Cognitive Computing Improves Government

Government organizations are at a crossroads between greater demands for services and increasing obstacles to providing those services. In a recent executive report based on a survey of 100 government executives across the globe, IBM proposed that cognitive computing is the answer to some of the challenges that government organizations face. The principle behind cognitiveRead… Read more »