Best-Practices for Big Data Report
March 15, 2014
The article titled Report: Best Practices for Big Data Projects on GCN explores the forty-four page IBM report called Realizing the Promise of Big Data. The report includes a history of big data, and explanations for its different applications in the public and private sectors. The report further breaks down the usage of big data by the federal government and local government. The article provides some tips from the report, such as strong oversight,
“A staff with expertise in the technology, business and policy aspects of the project can help prevent any major surprises and ensure everything goes as planned. The development of key performance indicators is critical to big data projects. Both process and outcome measures are essential to the project’s success. Performance measures are centered on improving efficiency, such as lowering the cost of operations. Outcome measures focus on how the customers perceive the service being delivered.”
As might be clear from the quote, the report focuses on how best to design and implement a project of gaining insight from big data. At this point, most of us are still not sure what big data means, but somehow there are there are best practices for a fuzzy field of government effort.
Chelsea Kerwin, March 15, 2014
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