How the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Is Making Data Awesome. Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at the White House, gave the audience at the 2012 Social Good Summit on Saturday a high-energy lesson in the importance of making government data more useful and available to anyone.
Park, who previously served as Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, became the White House's second CTO in March of this year. "We've really embraced the power of open innovation," said Park, who broke his job down into three primary tasks: making new data available to the public; taking already publicly available data that's unusable and making it usable; and making entrepreneurs and innovators aware of government data. "You take the data that's already there and jujitsu it, put it in machine-readable form, let entrepreneurs take it and turn it into awesomeness," he said. Health and life sciences get a healthy dose of big data. Researchers are using big data analytics to help improve the quality of life of multiple sclerosis patients.
To improve health care, researchers are using big data analytics to bring advances to the medical field. For example, at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo researchers are using data from patients with multiple sclerosis to analyze the effectiveness of current drugs and treatments alongside the individual’s personal health records and the progression of the disease. IBM Watson Hits Daily Double Fighting Cancer With Memorial Sloan Kettering.