Imagine teaching someone to draw complex, scientific diagrams by only describing the picture. That’s the idea behind CoSyn, a new tool from Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI. CoSyn uses ...

To find out, Government Technology used the Socrata Open Data API to look at about 55,000 data assets published by 336 U.S. state and local governments — an average of 163 assets per publisher.

Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting.

President Trump signed the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act on Monday evening, and with it the OPEN Government Data Act became law.. The bill, which requires that all non-sensitive ...

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