COMMENTARY: Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel says in his recent White House Blog: "Through reporting of new operational metrics, the updated IT Dashboard provides unprecedented insight into the ...
Big Data Science Visualizations: Past, Present, and Future
Big data science visualizations have evolved from the use of proprietary data (past), to difficult-to-obtain-and-use big data (present), to the hope that business, finance, media, and government big ...
What Occupy Wall Street And Gini Coefficient Say About Inequality
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations that began Sept. 17, 2011, in New York City's Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district, launched by the Canadian activist group Adbusters ...
Mapping The President's Budget For Fiscal Year 2012
When I saw this interactive budget image (the treemap above) issued by the White House, I thought it could actually be made clearer and really interactive with visualization tools like one I use ...
Four Lessons Learned Using Dashboards in Government
Someone suggested I review the new IBM Center for The Business of Government report on Use of Dashboards in Government by Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, pointing out one ...
Collaborative Telepresence Is Not Your Father's Video Teleconferencing
I recently visited the Crystal City, Va., office of one of the technology companies we work with and learned what it takes to display many sources of brilliant video across a surface of any size ...
Geospatial Summit 2011: Innovation Behind National Hydrography Data Set
The highlight of yesterday's Geospatial Summit for me was mention of the National Hydrography Data Set.
Tommy Dewald (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) and Keven Roth (U.S. Geological Survey, ...
Using Social Media Comments To Speculate About Future Cyber Events
"November 5, 2011 - Anonymous hackers promise to destroy Facebook." See Live Feed.
A headline and story this morning that caught my eye: Hackers Again Target Transit Police Union Site. The ...
Using Dashboards in Government
The use of dashboards in the federal government took off when President Obama released his Open Government initiative in early 2009. Here's a snapshot of where they are today, and some lessons learned ...
Parsing Obama's Town Hall Tweets
Last week, President Barack Obama kicked off his first Twitter town hall with – what else? – a tweet.
"At 1:53 PM Today (July 12), from the White House: I am going to make history ...
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