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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…”
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.”
The U.S. federal government spends about $80 billion annually on IT
“We spend about eighty billion dollars in federal IT”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Google and Bing source their drug knowledge panels from FDA and HHS
“If you use a major search platform Google, or Bing, or others, and I guess a major search platform and you put in a drug name you'll see in the knowledge box, or knowledge panel, or something like that, you'll see a bunch of information, and sourced will be th…”
Federal agencies like Commerce, Energy, and Transportation are appointing Chief Data Officers
“Department of Commerce is hiring for a Chief Data Officer. Department of Energy is hiring for Chief Data Officer. Department of Transportation just hired a Chief Data Officer. So you see a number of Cabinet-level agencies that are hiring them.”
The unmarketed IRS GetTranscript tool increased annual digital requests to 12 million
“The IRS launched this thing in 2014 with really no marketing called GetTranscript, and they went from three million, kind of, paper, ah, requests served a year. Now there are over twelve million, ah, ah, requests served a year”
The White House asks agencies to classify data into three access tiers
“One of the practical ways that we're asking agencies to deal with this is to really think about data in three, three classes. There's stuff that is public, there's stuff that is restricted public, and there's stuff that is non-public”
Nick Sinai was a venture capitalist at Lehman Brothers during its collapse
“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 w…”