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Big Data Raises Big Questions in Government

Cheaper storage and more powerful analytic tools are making big data an increasingly viable concept for the public sector. Some police departments, for example, already mine high-volume, high-variety, high-velocity data sources to support predictive policing. Public officials also hope to deploy big data in public health, education, corrections, infrastructure management, citizen engagement and many other arenas.

Extracting knowledge from data stores has become an essential function, said Rick Davis, CIO at the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC). "We started accumulating all this data, and then people started saying, ‘We’d like to report from this,’ or ‘We want to do some trend analysis.’"

Still, governments that want to harness the power of big data face some serious obstacles. One such challenge emerges from the fact that governments collect and store data in so many different formats.

By Merrill Douglas

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/policy-management/Big-Data-Raises-Big-Questions.html

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