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My Top Three Articles Relating to the Federal Government From Last Friday

On Friday, October 24, I was on the Federal News Countdown, hosted by Francis Rose, along with Jenny Mattingley, director of government affairs for Shaw, Bransford and Roth. You can hear the show, and see a picture of an old, bald guy standing next to Jenny, here.

The format of the show is each guest talks about their third most important article, then their second and finally their most important article of the week. Both guests will comment on each other’s second and top articles.

My Top Three Articles Relating to the Federal Government From Last Friday

Everything in Government is Based on Data

(this was originally posted on the Powertek Corporation blog at http://www.powertekcorporation.com/index.php/blog/162-everything-in-government-is-based-on-data)

Data.

Whether it is prefaced with “Big” or sometimes with “Open”, it is the lifeblood of government IT.

We talk about using data to do Business Analytics. We write about XML and XBRL standards. There is a famous saying that “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” In this month’s blog we will focus on how companies doing business with the Federal Government might dosomething about data standards.

Everything in Government is Based on Data

Big Data in Agriculture

Interesting article on the growing amount of information being collected, much of it by sensors and thus automatically generated, in Agriculture: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/american-farmers-confront-big-data-revolution/2014/03/29/186e93ae-b74f-11e3-9eb3-c254bdb4414d_story.html?algtrack=cfrec-1&tid=btm_rex_2

Big Data – Is It A Big Deal?

<published earlier by FedScoop, http://fedscoop.com/big-data-is-it-a-big-deal/>

In our increasingly fast-paced world, the buzz-word du jour, Big Data, looks like a winner of the fastest transition from cool, new, vacuous, poorly-defined concept to mainstream acceptance and implementation.

A year or two ago if you had mentioned Hadoop, listeners would have thought you had the hiccups (or had just sneezed). Now even the non-Technorati use the term in casual conversations.Big Data – Is It A Big Deal?

Federal Countdown – October 5th

Every now and again, I get invited to appear on the Federal Countdown, hosted by Francis Rose, Friday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm on WFED radio.

The focus of the show is to have two guests select their three most important stories about the Federal Government. The third most important article is discussed by each guest individually. Then both comment on the two selected second-most and first-most (first-most or just most?) important stories of the week.

Yesterday John Salamone, who is a managing consultant at Federal Management Partners, were the guests. I thought I would provide a brief summary of the three articles I brought in this entry.

The audio for the session is posted on the WFED web-site at:

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/156/3067288/Federal-News-Countdown-Big-data-sequestration-solutions-and-cloud-savings.

Federal Countdown – October 5th