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Preventive maintenance through predictive analytics

With unstructured maintenance data hampering strategic decision-making, the Navy’s Military Sealift Command turned to machine learning for help.

  • By GCN Staff

Auditing the auditors

The Government Accountability Office developed a business intelligence system that delivers insight into a broad range of key performance indicators on employee activity.

  • By GCN Staff

A proven program, rebuilt from the ground up

The FBI's ViCAP has been reimagined with a new graphical user interface, improved search capabilities, integrated geospatial search and analysis, interactive timelines and anomaly detection.

  • By GCN Staff

More science, less art in property assessments

With analytics and machine learning, Wake County, N.C., is removing much of the human subjectivity from the process.

  • By GCN Staff

Why the US needs better crime reporting statistics

Crime measurements have been contentious since crime reporting began in 1929, but the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System, scheduled to roll out in 2020, may help.

  • By Liberty Vittert

Navy to utilize blockchain for aviation

The Naval Air Systems Command is working on a project using blockchain to track aviation parts through their lifecycles.

  • By Sara Friedman

USDA plans agencywide dashboards

The administrative dashboards will break down silos and improve decision-making.

  • By Sara Friedman

Streamlining grants management with machine learning

Machine learning and analytics pilots at GrantSolutions.gov aim to improve the processes and workflow around grants management.

  • By Sara Friedman

Can politics be predicted?

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants a program that takes the guesswork out of forecasting worldwide geopolitical issues.

  • By Patrick Marshall

How analytics improves grants management

Tableau dashboards are helping the Health Resources and Services Administration track grants.

  • By Sara Friedman

Pennsylvania’s data-driven opioid strategy

A dashboard that tracks opioid prescriptions and emergency department visits helps the Opioid Operational Command Center identify overdose spikes and provide appropriate response.

  • By Sara Friedman

Modernizing a benefits program? You need better analytics

Analytics make benefits delivery more efficient by allowing agencies to target services, detect fraud, streamline back-office operations and lower costs.

  • By Andy Smith

Why agencies struggle with performance analytics

Many local governments have not been able to capture data and successfully apply it to their decision-making process, according to researchers at the Brookings Institution.

  • By Susan Miller

W.Va. county building opioid data hub

Although the bulk of the data will come out of the county's computer-aided dispatch system, the plan is include health and education information.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz
Featured eBooks

Data-driven performance tracking for small governments

OpenGov's Performance Measures lets local officials organize and visualize data collected from individual departments.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

How to survive the 'silver tsunami'

Analyzing and visualizing data on employee performance can help agencies recruit and retain the best employees and ensure seamless succession plans.

  • By Sean Brophy

How data analytics supports Virginia's Medicaid services

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services is bringing data analytics to the state's Medicaid services.

  • By Sara Friedman

A plethora of YADs: Let's hope they point to a more intelligent future

Every day seems to bring yet another dashboard that not only reinvents the performance reporting wheel but also fails to support data sharing across organizations and systems.

  • By Owen Ambur

Virginia maps opioid response

Color-coded heat maps show gaps in addiction treatment coverage so decision-makers can recruit more providers and push community outreach.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Smarter camera systems for better surveillance

Software that builds video analysis intelligence into cameras will provide earlier alerts to public safety managers.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Analytics platform helps KC anticipate the needs of its citizens

With Xaqt's MetroGraph, Kansas City, Mo., taps into its smart infrastructure -- as well as legacy and open data -- for real-time monitoring and data-driven predictions.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz