enabling-data-driven-public-private-collaborations.md

ENABLING DATA-DRIVEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATIONS

Tyrone Grandison, @tygr, tgrandison@doc.gov

• Collaborations that focus on federal government, open data
• Impact junkie
• Bureau provides critical functions for consumer products
• Open data sets on data.gov
• How much data exposed? ~1% catalogued, indexed
• Global Weather Industry, fueled by ~10% of NOAA data
• What if… We work with other people, orgs, to unlock more data
• Startup within Gov department: Commerce Data Service, ensure data initiatives on par with private sector
• Case study: Commerce Data Usability Project
  • https://github.com/commercedataservice
  • Tutorials available on using open data sets:
    • Understanding Weather Risk
    • Making sense of cyber vulnerability patterns
    • Processing satellite imagery
    • Understanding atmospheric rivers
• Need: to be community driven
  • Engagement:
    • Play with it
    • Use it
    • Add issues, PRs
    • Collaborate on next tutorial, your favorite dataset
  • Goal: make open data actionable, accessible
    • a novel analysis or question posed to the data
    • visually arresting
    • open source

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Wed Jun 29 14:55:20 PDT 2016