Big Government Data: Big Challenges, Big Rewards

Hear from the people who are putting government data to work

The government collects terabytes of data every year—an amount that is increasing exponentially every day. Talent shortages aside, there is simply not enough manpower across government to manage that much data.

That's why the open data movement has been gaining traction in recent years. Government leaders realize that opening up their agencies' data to the public enables individual citizens to find answers to their quest