“One agency’s innovative big data program has sparked a revolution in thinking at another federal agency and helped launch life-saving applications from unlikely sources.”
“Since March 2016, The Opportunity Project, or TOP, housed within the Census Bureau, has been connecting innovators from around the globe with public data and resources to help them make a difference in the world.”
“We believe that data matters. Not just because it is interesting but because it solves problems for people in their everyday lives,” TOP Director and Cofounder Drew Zachary said during the annual Demo Day, held Friday at Census headquarters in Maryland to showcase accomplishments from the latest cohort. “The Opportunity Project is really a process we use to…” Read the full article here.
Source: Census’ Big Data Innovation Program Infects HHS with Promising Results – By Aaron Boyd, March 4, 2019. Nextgov.
