The President’s Management Agenda calls for using automation software to improve efficiency of government services to focus on emerging technologies including machine learning and autonomous systems. OMB is pursuing an Acquisition Modernization Plan that leverages leading edge technology to enable the acquisition workforce to shift its attention to higher-value work and focus more on activities […]
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While social determinants of health—including poverty, physical environment (e.g., smoke exposure, homelessness), and race/ ethnicity—can have a considerable effect on COVID-19 outcomes, their impact on COVID-19 morbidity is perhaps underappreciated. As everyone continues to try to monitor and understand the coronavirus pandemic, visualizing data is a key step in making the pandemic clearer for readers […]
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Data Center is bursting at the seams with historical data and continues to process more than one billion claims each year! That is a LOT of data – 30 years of claims history, stored in 2,500 files that add up to 500 terabytes (TB) of data. Imagine the […]
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CORMAC opens its Big Data Innovation Lab as part of the Center of Excellence (COE) initiative. Investments in the Lab will support tools/product development, data management prototypes, Big Data and Analytics. The facility consists of a 6-node Hadoop cluster, analytics and BI software such as SAS, MicroStrategy, Tableau and Apache SOLR. Partners include such Big […]
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