Big data, which has been the hot topic for conferences this year, has also received a good deal of attention on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, most notably with two recent events:

• The ACT-IAC discussion with Congressional staff members on Big Data at the Hill – Defining and Understanding Policy Implications

• The TechAmerica Foundation’s release of its Big Data Commission report, “Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Business of Government,” “roadmap to using big data to better serve the American people.”

As one who represents a population of data scientists, a group for which the TechAmerica says there is growing demand, I have seen quite a few–and written a number of–articles about recent big data conferences:

• Predictive Analytics World for Government
• Linkedin Provides Big Data Results on Growing and Shrinking Industries for White House
• Big Data Innovation
• Big Data: Volume and Value Really Matter
• Big Data Systems First Need Data Science and Knowledge Bases and Not Ontologies
• Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data
• Intelligence Community Loves Big Data
• Data Evolution in the Government Enterprise: Will It Still Be Big Data Next Year?
• The Value Potential of Big Data to Government: Parsing and serving it up “small”

For those who contributed to the ACT-IAC discussion with Congressional staff members on Big Data at the Hill – Defining and Understanding Policy Implications, I offer some specific ideas to three suggestions in their report:

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