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Kevin Compher: How much government data does the SEC rely on?

It is not uncommon for a federal agency to claim it is data-driven, but how true is that statement? The Securities and Exchange Commission is one example of an ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

May 17, 2017 9:07 am

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Kevin Compher, lead data scientist, SEC Cloud Strategies and Enterprise Data Platform group

It is not uncommon for a federal agency to claim it is data-driven, but how true is that statement? The Securities and Exchange Commission is one example of an agency that uses large amounts of data for up-to-date analyses. Kevin Compher, lead data scientist in the Cloud Strategies and Enterprise Data Platform group within the SEC, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to give a true sense of how much data the agency depends on.