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The state is working with NetApp to determine the cause of the problem, but there’s no evidence of any security breach, he added.

"The people who are starting to succeed in big data are taking data sets they’ve never looked at before, combining them, and then asking questions that weren’t askable before"

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took a large step Tuesday toward joining the growing "open data" movement of making government statistics readily available to anyone with a computer and Internet connection.

The Montana Department of Labor & Industry launched a new Labor Market Information Web site in response to private sector demands for easy access to hard data for business planning

A commitment to openness makes governments better producers of data, and better consumers of data.

"It puts a lot of pressure on everybody involved to be more responsible and to be more accountable," said Priscilla Dixon, a Chicago lawyer who has used the app and is a believer in engaging the city via social media.

Data Analytics: Advanced analytics will transform cities by helping city leaders derive insights from network data in real time to improve services and manage cities better.

With states and localities searching for ways to contain costs and improve the performance of these programs, using analytics to make better decisions offers a compelling proposition.

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Let’s assume you are the CIO of a public enterprise — one typical in that it is led by a committed but financially stressed elected official.

An interesting use of geolocalized tweets to extract information about existing use of land in urban areas.