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.
Artificial Intelligence
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?
Budgeting Is a Collaborative Effort
The traditional budgeting approach used by local governments has many downsides, including a reliance on siloed data and an inability to identify how agencies can deliver services more efficiently and effectively. But rules-based software, which offers a digital and personalized approach, helps to solve those problems.
How Automated Traffic Management Insights Can Help DoTs Better Respond to Natural Disasters
State and local governments are faced with a pressing need to repair infrastructure damage, particularly transportation infrastructure, following a natural disaster. But localities often lack visibility into what’s happening on the ground, and that delays restoration efforts. Automation can be a huge help.
Looking for Career Growth in 2023? Think About AI and Zero Trust
A 2023 career goal may be to better familiarize yourself with some key technologies that are currently in the early stages of use in government – artificial intelligence and zero trust.
Federal Employees Will Meet the Challenges of 2023 and Beyond by Augmenting Classic Human Skills Through Artificial Intelligence
Agencies and employees need to sharpen five skills to succeed in 2023 and beyond, including developing stronger written and oral communication abilities and better problem-solving talents. And artificial intelligence will play an increasingly significant role.
The Future of Government Oversight Is…Exciting?
A GAO team is exploring an array of innovative technologies to help government solve its toughest problems and is offering critical insights for public policymakers to consider.
Milwaukee County Sees Promise in Machine Learning
Milwaukee County uses machine learning to help identify discriminatory language in statutes.
What Story Is Your Data Telling?
Automation can make analyzing data so much easier. It can help agencies tell better “data stories” that put the information in context. Automating isn’t easy, though. Here’s advice from an industry expert.
Automation: How to Make Quick Work of Analytics
Data analytics, in simple terms, can be compared to doing a jigsaw puzzle: The automated analytic tools make much quicker sense of 1,000 random puzzle pieces than a human ever could. But the shift to data analytics requires some planning.