Hosted by the Data Transfer trance transparency coalition. Good morning, i am managing principal with unlimited and i am here representing act iraq. This provides an objective and trusted former government and industry executives collaborate to address key issues facing our government. It has been my pleasure to be a leader in this project. We have volunteers from dozens of companies and Government Agencies collaborating to discuss data challenges in a practitioner focused forum. White papers, panels, panels, conferences have been produced and made available to public. Check out the website for all of the output. With great pleasure, i introduced todays keening q keynote speaker. Mark dahms has had three Main Responsibilities in that role. He led the Statistics Administration which includes two of the nations preeminent data bureaus. These agencies collect information on the United States dynamic population and economy, publishing vital vital data to the citizens, businesses and leader
What can we do to make the data easier to find. If you want to know whats happening to your community, what does your Community Look like . Lets say youre moving to the d. C. Area. What does the Smallest Church look like . How does that compare. What are the people like question my two they have characteristics you are looking for question you should be able to find out but it can be really hard. Then we have the patent Trademark Office. When youre an inventor, you have to look at the patent database. Right now now a lot of that data is very unstructured. Its not machinereadable and not all the data that the Patent Office has is out to the public. Theres an analysis at the Trademark Office where they are sitting on a bunch of data that hasnt even been opened yet. They all have very common themes. If you want to get the data out, there is people who find it and can use it. Lets talk about the analysis of data. Again, i mentioned one mentioned one of the biggest constraints we have in th
Force is growing plus how efficient our economy is becoming. If you add those two up, gdp growth. So what were seeing the last four years productivity growth averaging less than 1 . Historically thats low in the United States. Thats kind of really retarding u. S. Growth. How are we why arent we growing faster in this kind of Data Revolution where we hear all these great things about data . Theres this big conundrum there. Maybe what it is we have all these businesses gathering all this information and they really havent yet materialized the benefits from all this data. But from a macro perspective thats a huge, huge question. So how much all this data stuff were talking about, how much can this improve the u. S. Economy, okay . So im just going to throw out a couple real rough numbers here. Theres lots of studies out there who always talk about trillions of dollars and billions of dollars and so on and so forth. I always find those numbers really hard to understand. So im an economist.
And ochk that extends beyond the courtroom and the actions that we bring. Working with many members who are sponsoring this wonderful weekend and other members of congress as well, weve promoted legislative proposals to resore the Voting Rights act to its full and proerp. Weve profoesed legislation that would expand access to polling places for those living on indian villages and other tribal lands. We cannot have a situation in this country where the original americans are kept out of the participation in the bounties of this land. We cannot have that. [ applause ] we do this also through our monitoring program, we monitor federal elections and weve actively enforced the National Voter registration act to protect those who are registering to vote, as well as the rights of our uniformed members of the military. And overseas citizens who seek to vote as well. Keeping on to what makes them quintessentially american. We will also protect their rights as well. And of course, the right to v
90s and today if it was a little too high guest today that did a little bit of cool weather definitely no war mid90s expected here was a look outside working to partly cloudy conditions and oakland in the cycle will look as 65 degrees temperatures in the early 80s by 3 of 4 00 p. M. The western grades 5 to 10 mi. From our to purchase of going to be fairly mild this evening copper seven is at 6 00 tonight low 70s oclock this evening it will be a little bit more comfortable to them simply as our mild for some locations mid 60s and san jose and the kids are complaining they did not want to wear a jacket to school we are expecting some high clouds and to the forecast area of the route the day today through the system were watching coming up from the south again it will be spotty at best from really night amounts that will see the clouds from the of north also made sit couple thunderstorms as well heres a look at a high for this afternoons 76 in San Francisco memories and sunnyvale and san