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"City governments, faced with decreased resources after the Great Recession and rising citizen demand for services with increased urbanization, must be able to make better decisions that are informed by data. To put it another way, in 2012, mayors need to start playing Moneyball in government with evidence-based analysis. From public health to education to energy policy, if governments can shift resources to where they're needed more quickly and accurately, there's substantial positive outcomes for citizens from the application of data for public good. Predictive data analytics - like any data analysis - can only be as effective as the data that they're based upon. Data quality is a long-term concern for any policy maker that wishes to make data-driven decisions, from foreign policy to energy to transportation. If it's bad data, policymakers are going to have a problem, even with superior methodology and algorithms."

Storing huge amounts of data is all well and good but the big advantage of collecting data is using it to help better understand your business, allowing you to become more efficient or to design better products. That has been the message of business intelligence products and data warehouses for years. But the analytics market is changing dramatically, with BI tools working with more data, more integrated analytics platforms, more in-memory databases, a renewed emphasis on real-time data analysis and data visualization, and a recent push toward so-called "predictive analytics."

City governments, faced with decreased resources after the Great Recession and rising citizen demand for services with increased urbanization, must be able to make better decisions that are informed by data. To put it another way, in 2012, mayors need to start playing Moneyball in government with evidence-based analysis.

La banque vous téléphone: une tentative de retrait a présentement lieu à New York, mais votre sans-fil lui indique que vous êtes à Montréal. Voulez-vous bloquer la transaction? Juste comme ça, la contextualisation des données vient empêcher une fraude bancaire. C'est de la fiction? Non. Bienvenue en 2012.