“So I was in, in the business world for about 10 years, and I was a venture capitalist, ah, for about five years after business school, and I was actually on my honeymoon, and I opened up the newspaper, and it says Lehman Brothers goes bust. Ah, the challenge with that is I was working for Lehman Brothers Venture Capital, ah, at the time.”
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Tracking dataset quantity creates perverse incentives for government open data
“If you're just counting and you tell the bureaucracy that, that the numbers are important, and even if you don't explicitly say that, but implicitly, if you have folks in the minute, senior officials that keep using higher and higher numbers, it encourages peo…”
Nick SinaiOct 16, 2014▶ 8:42Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
AssertionSupported
NOAA collects 20 terabytes of weather data daily but releases only 10%
“They still have 20 terabytes of data that they collect and create a day around weather, and they're only making 10% of that available.”
Nick SinaiOct 16, 2014▶ 16:06Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
AssertionSupported
The U.S. federal government spends about $80 billion annually on IT
“We spend about eighty billion dollars in federal IT”
Nick SinaiOct 16, 2014▶ 1:50Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
AssertionSupported
Barack Obama signed a 2013 executive order prioritizing open, machine-readable data
“In 2013, the president signed, ah an executive order making open and machine readable the new default for government information.”
Nick SinaiOct 16, 2014▶ 3:50Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
AssertionPartly supported
The U.S. federal government spends $140 billion annually on research and development
“We spend a hundred and forty billion dollars a year in research and development.”
Nick SinaiOct 16, 2014▶ 4:33Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
AssertionSupported
Data.gov is open-source on GitHub, built with CKAN and WordPress
“So we moved it to an open source project. So it's now CCAN and WordPress. It's on GitHub, so you can actually log an issue or put your, put some feedback. We're pushing code, I think every four weeks or so.”
Nick SinaiOct 16, 2014▶ 8:06Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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