It looks like last month’s federal government shutdown didn’t stop the White House Big Data initiative from moving forward. On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program announced their continuation of the Obama Administration’s 2012 Big Data Initiative to learn more about a wide range of issues and in the process create an estimated 4.4 million jobs.
This week’s Data Analytics News Roundup brings you articles on what the White House plans do do with all of the federal government’s Big Data.
- White House Promotes New Partnerships as It Seeks to Make Better Use of “Big Data” at The Washington Post: “The Obama administration plans Tuesday to announce a new set of partnerships that enlist private companies, nonprofits, academics and others in an effort to harness Big Data to solve national problems. The new alliances come more than a year and a half after the administration established $200 million in Big Data initiatives aimed at sorting through the massive reams of information collected by the government to glean new insights.”
- New Data Science Institute to Help Scholars Harness ‘Big Data’ at UC Berkeley: “‘Big Data is now a super-big deal,’ Holdren said as he unveiled several high-impact collaborations – the Moore and Sloan foundations’ among them – involving federal agencies, private industry, academia, state and local governments, non-profits and foundations. Part of President Obama’s Big Data Initiative, which was announced last year, these collaborations will harness data in all areas to enhance economic growth and job creation, education and health, energy and environmental sustainability, public safety and global development.”
- White House Makes Additional Big Data Commitments at FierceGovernmentIT: “The initiative, co-sponsored by OSTP and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program — which draws together IT portfolios from 18 federal agencies — brings together federal, state and local government; corporations; universities; and nonprofits to mine big data to deliver value to American consumers and drive the economy, said the White House.”
- White House Announces Big Data Partnerships at FCW: “‘There are enormous opportunities to harness data, extract knowledge, drive discovery and decision making, and to making accurate predictions and gaining deeper understanding of causal relationships based on advanced data analysis,’ Jahanian said. ‘What we are witnessing today is that realizing the enormous potential of data requires a bold, comprehensive national effort with engagement.’”
- White House Unveils Big Data Projects, Round Two at InformationWeek: “Several of the initiatives are aimed at specific healthcare challenges. For instance, IBM Research, Geisinger Health Systems, and Sutter Health will use a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to devise ways to use Big Data to develop tools for doctors to identify patients at risk of heart failure years earlier than can now be spotted. The trio will draw on data covering patient demographics, medical history, allergies, medications, and other characteristics to develop predictive capabilities.”
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