Benefits applicant answering questions on a laptop

Software quizzes applicants before doling out benefits

Florida's Department of Children and Families is using LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which creates a profile based on customer-supplied information, to authenticate people applying for public assistance.

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5 keys to getting big data under control

Commerce Department CIO offers insights on how to think about big data in ways that will keep its challenges down to size.

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What's hot at FOSE 2013

The annual conference and expo kicks off Tuesday, tackling the key challenges facing the public-sector IT community.

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Social network analysis, predictive coding enlisted to fight fraud

New analytic technologies will help agencies and investigators look deeper into behavioral patterns to combat some of the more sophisticated fraud schemes on the horizon.

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Google puts decades of Earth's changes into time-lapse animation

Google Earth Engine collects and converts millions of Landsat images from USGS into a picture of how the Earth's surface has changed.

Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

New techniques behind Energy's plan for exascale computing

Scientists at the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Lab are working toward building an exascale computer that by 2020 could be powerful enough to model the human brain, cell by cell.

Expanding use of cameras and sensors creates huge stores of data

Emerging protocol can help manage the Internet of Things

MQTT, proposed as an OASIS standard, can help agencies manage all the data generated by sensors, mobile devices and other machine-to-machine networks.

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Is big data big trouble for state, local governments?

A MeriTalk survey finds that many agencies lack the storage capacity, computing power and personnel to handle the data they have.

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Internet2 backbone serving national supercomputer network

The XSEDE research network operators say bandwidth and networking tools are key to moving large files between high-performance systems.

Visualization using Excel add ins

How to use Excel for on-the-spot analytics

New add-ons for the spreadsheet program can combine Census, weather and demographic data to aid evacuations in an emergency.

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Service helps agencies pinpoint sources of improper payments

Fiserv's payment accuracy and fraud solution helps agencies reduce the overall loss of cash associated with improper disbursement.

Genome research must move to cloud

Genome research creating data that's too big for IT

NCI is looking for ways cloud computing could help researchers tap its petabyte-scale human cancer genome database, which is "breaking the standard model" of research.

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