Cities around the world face rapid urbanization, economic constraints, and environmental concerns. To address these challenges, city administrators are turning to technology, especially the Internet
Social media monitoring has taken on heightened importance in a wide range of business concerns, from communications to customer service. In PR and on social
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is huge potential for public services to be transformed by artificial intelligence (AI). Longevity is rapidly increasing.
The states Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina recently went through some of the worst flooding since Hurricane Katrina. Many cities including large parts
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as “black box” systems: Once
Throughout my long career of building and implementing data quality processes, I’ve consistently been told that data quality could not be implemented within data sources, because
Last year was a banner year for Spark. Big names like Cloudera and IBM jumped on the bandwagon, companies like Uber and Netflix rolled out
When you spend long enough writing and working in any industry, you inevitably see trends emerge and reach varying levels of maturity. Data governance is
We are at a point in the digital age where corruption is increasingly difficult to hide. Information leaks are abundant and shocking. We rely on
If I have one gripe about technology today, it’s the seemingly universal belief that manifests social and business issues for the first time. Sure, Twitter
A few years ago, in the height of my workaholism, I took up a hobby. I go to sketchy neighborhoods around L.A. and hang out
About a year ago on this site, I penned a post titled “Analytics lessons from Amazon.” In it, I described the analytics lessons that employees and
