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Federal Transparency.gov As Data For the Digital Government Strategy
Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist
Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/
AOL Government Bloggerhttp://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/
April 9, 2013http://semanticommunity.info/FederalTransparency.gov
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Background• Third Annual Government Big Data Forum:
– Big Data in the Age of Analytics: From Infrastructure to Sense Making• Kirit Amin (Department of Commerce), Shawn Kingsberry (Recovery Accountability and
Transparency Board), and Donna Roy (DHS NIEM/Information Sharing Environment)
• People, Processes, and Technology– The Kitchen Model of Big Data: Chefs, Ingredients, Utensils, and Recipes
• Chef's are Data Scientist, Ingredients are Data Specified or Needed, Utensils and Recipes are the Tools and Experience used by the Data Scientists, respectively.
• New Digital Government Strategy Paradigm:– All content as data = big data
• Done this recently for Census Data Visualization Gallery and NIEM/ISE.
• Now for the Four FederalTransparency.gov Web Sites:– FederalTransparency.gov– EducationJobsFund.gov– FederalReporting.gov– Recovery.gov
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind
• Habit 2 is based on imagination--the ability to envision in your mind what you cannot at present see with your eyes. It is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default. It's about connecting again with your own uniqueness and then defining the personal, moral, and ethical guidelines within which you can most happily express and fulfill yourself. Begin with the End in Mind means to begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen.
• My Note: My End In Mind Is Federal Transparency.gov As Data For the Digital Government Strategy.
Source: https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits-habit2.php
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FederalTransparency.gov
http://www.federaltransparency.gov/Pages/default.aspx
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EducationJobsFund.gov
http://www.educationjobsfund.gov/Pages/home.aspx
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FederalReporting.gov
https://www.federalreporting.gov/federalreporting/home.do
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FederalReporting.gov Templates
http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/23789/FederalReportingTemplate_-_Contracts.xlshttp://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/23790/FederalReportingTemplate_-_Grants_and_Loans.xls
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Recovery.gov
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx
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Tufte’s Lights-On-Map
http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/MapGallery/Pages/TufteLightsOn.aspx
My Note: Need to produce this in a toolthat links to the underlying data.
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FederalTransparency.gov Knowledge Base
http://semanticommunity.info/FederalTransparency.gov
My Note: Well-Defined URLTo Each Piece and Mashupof Related Pieces.
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FederalTransparency.govSpreadsheet
http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/23778/FederalTransparency.xlsx
Seven Spreadsheets and TheirData Elements and DefinitionsThat Make the Data Ecosystem.See Slide 14.
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FederalTransparency.gov Spotfire: Recovery.gov
Filters
Details-on-Demand
History of Spending Spending Versus Jobs
Tufte-like Lights-On-Map
Interactivity of Data in Visualizations
Big Data Set
Story and Metadata
599,743 Rows and 98 Columns
https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?FederalTransparency-Spotfire
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FederalTransparency.gov Spotfire: Education Jobs Fund
Top Ten States
Award Amount Versus Number of Jobs
Rank Order
Instructions
Filters
Details-On-Demand2012 4th Quarter
Data Set
TotalsData Set
https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?FederalTransparency-Spotfire
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FederalTransparency.gov Spotfire: Data Ecosystem
Data Completeness Data Completeness
Data Completeness Data Dictionary
Data Inventory
Data ElementRepository
https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?FederalTransparency-Spotfire
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FederalTransparency.gov Spotfire: State Boundaries
My Note: Additional BoundariesFor Counties, CongressionalDistricts, MSAs, etc. Can Be Added.
Data Set
Filters
Metadata andInstructions Visualization
Filter Result
https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?FederalTransparency-Spotfire
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Conclusions and Recommendations
• The Third Annual Government Big Data Forum – “Big Data in the Age of Analytics: From Infrastructure to Sense Making” Provided the End in Mind for this Work:– Federal Transparency.gov As Data For the Digital Government Strategy
• The People, Processes, and Technology of Big Data Suggests The Kitchen Model of Big Data: Chefs, Ingredients, Utensils, and Recipes:– The Chef's are Data Scientist, Ingredients are Data Specified or Needed, Utensils and Recipes are the
Tools and Experience used by the Data Scientists, respectively.• The New Digital Government Strategy Paradigm of All Content as Data = Big Data:
– Did this recently for Census Data Visualization Gallery and NIEM/ISE and Now for the Four FederalTransparency.gov Web Sites:• FederalTransparency.gov• EducationJobsFund.gov• FederalReporting.gov• Recovery.gov
• Created a MindTouch Knowledge Base, an Excel Spreadsheet, and a Spotfire Dashboard and Data Ecosystem to Audit, Assess, and Improve on Work of Government Accountability and Transparency Board and to Audition for the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel.
• Do Comparison Maps for a Map Gallery Like the Census Data Visualization Gallery.– http://semanticommunity.info/Census_Data_Visualization
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Spotfire 5.5
http://spotfire.tibco.com/en/spotfire-5-5.aspx