In June Cloudera announced the general availability of CDH4 and Cloudera Manager 4. These releases are significant milestones for the Big Data community, and are also important to any organization which has yet to being their Big Data journey. CDH4 and Cloudera Manager 4 make it far easier to begin projects the right way. BothRead… Read more »
Welcome to GovLoop InsightsIssue of the Week with Chris Dorobek where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days… and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead. And,Read… Read more »
Today at 11:30am the ABS releases the first tranche of the 2011 Census’s data – including the core demographics. How is this Gov 2.0 related? There’s a number of ways. First, this is the first time the majority of Census data will be released, from day one, under a Creative Commons license as open dataRead… Read more »
In May, we kicked off something new: the CfA Salon Speaker Series. It’s not new – actually quite old – and we’re hoping you’ll help us dust off this tradition of discussion and lounging (in person for the Bay Area-based and here on the blog for the rest). At our first Salon in May weRead… Read more »
It appears that big developments in local open government stemming from high level planning between major US cities that has been in the works since 2009 could be bearing fruit within the next few months. A partnership of IT executives from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — known asRead… Read more »
The Round-up welcomes its newest contributor, Michael Keegan. Also: due to vacations at the Center, the next round-up will be posted on June 29. Gadi Ben-Yehuda Gov 2.0 in Cities and States: On Govfresh, Luke Fretwell interviews Jonathan Reichental, CIO of Palo Alto, asking him about his “‘digital city’ vision.” Matthew Hall writes in CivicRead… Read more »
… I’ve not stopped blogging! I’ve just been really swamped and having my intellectual batteries recharged. Frankly, I’ll admit they were feeling flat, but I got some really juicy posts I’m mulling over. In the mean time I’m just trying to catch up on life – it’s been an exciting 7 days. Here’s a listRead… Read more »
Datameer’s new version adds to its already impressive ability to empower enterprise users. Datameer was already a capability that could be used by both advanced data scientists and the average enterprise workforce. Now its capabilities have been enhanced to the point that anyone with a PC can use it. I received a webinar of theRead… Read more »
You, dear readers, know more than most that the amount of data being created is growing faster than humans can analyze. But you also know that fast analysis over data can help humanity solve some very tough challenges. This fact is moving the globe towards new “Big Data” solutions. Government use of Big Data isRead… Read more »
The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) held a Geoint Community Week June 4-8 2012 which included a technology day. The afternoon of 07 June was dedicated to fast-paced “ignite” style presentations from some of the key community thought leaders on geospatial data. At the end of these presentations Bob Gourley was asked to summarize andRead… Read more »