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What The White House Learned From LinkedIn And The Use Of Big Data

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One of the best presentations at the recent Big Data Innovation Summit in Boston was by LinkedIn Senior Data Scientist Yael Garten. Garten, who leads LinkedIn’s Mobile Data Analytics team, in a presentation entitled Data Infused Product Design & Insights at LinkedIn provided a glimpse of how big data is used by LinkedIn to explore usage patterns, on mobile devices, for instance.

This is a challenge facing the US Government in the new Digital Government Strategy: namely delivering existing web sites and database information — and eventually the types of big data results that the intelligence and scientific communities have — so that mobile devices can access that information from supercomputers.

For those who haven’t kept up with LinkedIn’s progress of late: It’s mission is to “connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.” Here are a few facts at glance, from Garten’s presentation: Keep reading →

 /  Published October 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM

White House Continues Push For Federal Effort In Veterans’ Employment

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It’s been a year since the Obama Administration launched a major veteran hiring initiative calling on private industry to partner in an effort to secure employment for military families.


The effort — which has involved the Department of Veterans Affairs and the expanding role of IT in federal agencies — has since resulted in job opportunities for more than 125,000 veterans and their spouses. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Obama Order Ignites Diversity Debate

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President Obama’s executive order to establish a more diverse and inclusive federal workforce has sparked a debate among employees in, and out of, the public sector.

Some of the issues being addressed include: Keep reading →

 /  Published October 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM