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Ian Kalin: Commerce opens government’s vast stores of data

Agencies have no trouble generating data. But what good is it? The Commerce Department is launching a data service to make its vast stores of information more u...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

November 18, 2015 8:54 am

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Ian Kalin, chief data officer, Commerce Department

Agencies have no trouble generating data. But what good is it? The Commerce Department is launching a data service to make its vast stores of information more useful to decision makers. Ian Kalin is the chief data officer at the Commerce. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the new service. Read a related story.