Five Areas of Government Contracting that can benefit from Big Data

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Writer : Kayla Matthews
Name : Willy Erico 謝洪標
Student Id : D0726476

Five Areas of Government Contracting that can benefit from Big Data

Security
Big data has the ability to explicate video surveillance and facial recognition databases to pursue suspects and prevent incidents. Big data also helps to avoid cybersecurity threats. According to a US government survey conducted by MeriTalk, 90% of respondents saw a decline in security breaches and 84% used big data to help block attacks. Predictive models based on big data can not only alert IT managers to cyberattacks as soon as they occur, but can predict entry points for future attacks before they even occur. 

Healthcare
big data there will be a shift from treating illnesses to proactively maintaining our health and taking certain measure for preventative care. For example, Pixie Scientific developed Smart Pads to detect early signs of urinary tract infections, kidney disease or dehydration in babies and the elderly, so that healthcare providers can intervene before the symptoms appear.

Telemedicine is still in the early phases, but as it develops through big data analytics it will lower healthcare costs and increase the effectiveness of preventative healthcare. The combination of data, technology and healthcare has developed easy access to healthcare professionals.

Education
Education systems generate an immense amount of data about students and schools, such as attendance and attainment rates, as well as student performance and socioeconomic backgrounds. Big data opens up the field to understanding the needs of each district rather than evaluating standardized test results. With more data, the education sector can create customized plans to improve student results, reduce dropouts and better educate students. In Washington, Spokane Public Schools increased their graduation rate by 8% over three years by utilising data trends to identify early warning signs of dropouts among students. 

Big data can also find trends and identify effective strategies on how students learn.

Transportation
Big data can improve urban transportation problems such as lack of parking, congestion and long commutes. With the help of data analytics, government agencies can develop alternate routes to ease traffic. It can also find the causes of congestion and where drivers spend a lot of time looking for parking. Studying this data can make transportation move more quickly for everyone.

Development
As Mark van Rijmenam, founder of Datafloq, explains: "Big data offers the possibility to predict food shortages by combining variables such as drought, weather conditions, migrations, market prices, seasonal variation and previous productions." Many developing countries utilize big data to discover trends in agriculture and public health.

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