Big Data and Urban Informatics at UIC

I am in Chicago to attend the NSF sponsored Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics. I will chair the Crisis and Emergency Informatics track and will present the following paper. ‘Big’ Data + ‘Open’ Data + ‘Mobile’ Data: Urban Informatics I take the view of a city as a platform. As a platform, a city has infrastructure, […]

Measuring IT Value: Designing Metrics and Dashboards

For a third year in a row, I have been fortunate to receive a grant from the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Measuring IT Value in the Public Sector:  Designing Metrics and Dashboards IT investments are varied, unique, and integral to all efforts including service delivery, citizen engagement, and running of internal business processes. […]

Big Data Analytics and the US Social Security Administration, Information Polity

Rashmi Krishnamurthy and I have a paper accepted for publication in Information Polity. The paper, Big Data Analytics: The Case of the Social Security Administration, is one of the many case studies conducted during my research for my report on Big Data, published by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Public agencies are investing significant resources […]

Collective Intelligence 2014

Rashmi Krishnamurthy and I will be presenting on Challenge.gov at the Collective Intelligence 2014 Conference at MIT next week. You might also find my paper on Challenge.gov, with Ines Mergel, in Public Administration Review of interest.

Herbert A. Simon Best Paper Award

Kena Fedorschak, Srivatsav Kandala, Rashmi Krishnamurthy, and I won the Herbert A. Simon Best Paper Award at the Ninth International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology. The paper, Data Analytics and Human Trafficking, highlights our efforts toward building IT solutions to combat human trafficking at the ASU Decision Theater.  To read more about paper, please click here. […]

Stanford Social Innovation Research – Big Data

I co-authored an article on the role of big data for social innovation in the current issue of Stanford Social Innovation Research. Nonprofits and other social change organizations are lagging their counterparts in the scientific and business communities in collecting and analyzing the vast amounts of data that are being generated by digital technology. Four […]

Big Data and Local Government

I will be leading a webinar for the Alliance for Innovation on Big Data and Local Government on April 29, 2014. I will be joined by Chris Kelly (Director of Information Technology for Olathe, KS) and Matthew Esquibel (IT Division Manager for Austin, TX). You can read my report on Big Data here.

Human Trafficking Solutions at DESRIST 2014 Conference

Kena Fedorschak, Srivatsav Kandala, Rashmi Krishnamurthy, and I have a paper accepted at the Ninth International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology. The paper, Data Analytics and Human Trafficking, highlights our efforts toward building IT solutions to combat human trafficking at the ASU Decision Theater. Human trafficking is recognized internationally as an extreme form […]