How are E-Discovery Tools Making Sense of Big Data in Government?

We don’t run into too many states anymore that don’t have any tools at all.

Big data is only getting bigger. With the advent of social media over the past several years, public-sector agencies have even more information to compile, analyze and produce on demand.

Tom Kennedy, director of Public Sector Archiving and E-Discovery for Symantec, talked to Government Technology about how government agencies are gaining efficiencies while extracting useable, relevant information from a growing number of data sources.

1. What kinds of information does government have access to now that it didn’t before, and from your perspective, what challenges are governments facing trying to make sense of all this information?

By Noelle Knell

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