Commerce Department to Name Data Chief and Launch New Open Data Programs

The data officer will work with private-sector data experts to implement initiatives to produce more data and offer it in ways that provide sophisticated analytics, Pritzker told the audience of geographic information specialists. Pritzker didn’t say when the chief data officer position would be filled.

"We must build a common platform that ensures greater technical capacity to liberate our data, an ability to combine data in ways that make them more valuable," she said. "We aspire to develop new suites of data products created to meet the needs of businesses, innovators, governments and others."

by Hilton Collins

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